Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 242 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Pih Health Whittier Hospital

James West, System President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.81%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,476,513,565
Total expenses
$1,648,100,394
Net assets
$1,288,185,470
Employees
7,974
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$13,427,326
Bad debt
$87,168,206
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$7,747,059
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,623,596
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$40,183
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,663,779 to James West

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, Pih Health Whittier Hospital, EIN 95-1934652, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$184.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$13.4M (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($87.2M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Pih Health Whittier Hospital95-19346522025-09$890.5M$2.5M0.25%990
Pih Health Good Samaritan Hospital95-16563662025-09$360.5M$10.7M2.49%990
Pih Health Downey Hospital95-19039352025-09$225.5M$222,0550.10%990

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.

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Pih Health Whittier Hospital: CEO pay $1.7M, charity care 0.81% of expenses