Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Montana · Ranked 846 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Powell County Memorial Hospital Assoc

Jaena Richards, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$310,651
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.85%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
136.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Jaena Richards’s reported compensation was $310,651. The system’s charity care for the same year was $227,496. One person’s reported compensation was 1.4 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$31,413,179
Total expenses
$26,647,892
Net assets
$29,328,331
Employees
161
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$227,496
Bad debt
$1,441,462
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($141,709)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$266,409
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$44,242
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$310,651 to Jaena Richards

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, Powell County Memorial Hospital Assoc, EIN 81-0469886, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$1.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$227,496 (15%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.4M) 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.

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Powell County Memorial Hospital Assoc: CEO pay $310,651, charity care 0.85% of expenses