Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Ranked 516 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Prairie Ridge Health

John D Russell, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$778,480
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.54%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
158.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, John D Russell’s reported compensation was $778,480. The system’s charity care for the same year was $490,000. One person’s reported compensation was 1.6 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$94,631,409
Total expenses
$91,116,055
Net assets
$111,442,948
Employees
549
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$490,000
Bad debt
$1,372,980
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($30,156)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$711,702
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$66,778
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$778,480 to John D Russell

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, Prairie Ridge Health, EIN 39-1140373, 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)$14.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$490,000 (3%)

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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Prairie Ridge Health: CEO pay $778,480, charity care 0.54% of expenses