Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Alabama · Ranked 715 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Russellville Hospital

Chris Ware, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$461,578
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.27%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
239.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Chris Ware’s reported compensation was $461,578. The system’s charity care for the same year was $192,549. One person’s reported compensation was 2.4 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$56,017,685
Total expenses
$71,532,464
Net assets
−$27,501,006
Employees
349
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$192,549
Bad debt
$9,297,174
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$391,045
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$443,145
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$18,433
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$461,578 to Chris Ware

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, Russellville Hospital, EIN 47-2378825, 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)$835,818 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$192,549 (23%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.3M) 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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Russellville Hospital: CEO pay $461,578, charity care 0.27% of expenses