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 573 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ridgecrest Regional Hospital

James Suver, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$663,118
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.19%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
221.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, James Suver’s reported compensation was $663,118. The system’s charity care for the same year was $299,811. One person’s reported compensation was 2.2 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$150,014,424
Total expenses
$155,594,586
Net assets
$63,141,762
Employees
819
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$299,811
Bad debt
$5,868,532
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,370,185)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$616,419
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$46,699
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$663,118 to James Suver

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, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, EIN 95-2082686, 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)$4.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$299,811 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.9M) 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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Ridgecrest Regional Hospital: CEO pay $663,118, charity care 0.19% of expenses