Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Rhode Island · Ranked 188 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Rhode Island Hospital

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

$2.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.77%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
11.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,651,362 of $2,016,723) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,454,579,414
Total expenses
$2,259,162,229
Net assets
$1,209,506,525
Employees
9,913
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$17,387,456
Bad debt
$14,977,576
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$23,677,299
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,651,362
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$365,361
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,016,723 to John Fernandez

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, Rhode Island Hospital, EIN 05-0258954, 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)$176.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$17.4M (10%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($15.0M) 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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Rhode Island Hospital: CEO pay $2.0M, charity care 0.77% of expenses