Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Iowa · Ranked 671 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Pella Regional Health Center

Robert Kroese, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$510,626
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.34%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
102.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Robert Kroese’s reported compensation was $510,626. The system’s charity care for the same year was $499,072. One person’s reported compensation was 1.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$159,636,836
Total expenses
$148,735,195
Net assets
$152,190,291
Employees
1,122
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$499,072
Bad debt
$1,562,002
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,044,954)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$456,894
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$53,732
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$510,626 to Robert Kroese

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Pella Regional Health Center, EIN 42-0842204, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$22.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$499,072 (2%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.6M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

§Share

Pella Regional Health Center: CEO pay $510,626, charity care 0.34% of expenses