Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Oregon · Ranked 227 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Salem Health

Cheryl R Nester Wolfe, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.61%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,338,592,838
Total expenses
$1,387,849,865
Net assets
$959,475,712
Employees
7,240
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$22,346,724
Bad debt
$23,371,183
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($21,461,635)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,680,819
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$49,501
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,730,320 to Cheryl R Nester Wolfe

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, Salem Health, EIN 93-0579722, 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)$183.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$22.3M (12%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($23.4M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Salem Health93-05797222025-06$1.2B$20.9M1.61%990
Salem Health West Valley43-19602212025-06$102.6M$1.5M2.29%990

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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Salem Health: CEO pay $1.7M, charity care 1.61% of expenses