Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 440 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Salina Regional Health Center

Joel Phelps, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$944,826
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.47%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
48.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Joel Phelps’s pay of $944,826 equals 48.0 percent of the $1,967,935 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$434,935,359
Total expenses
$415,657,311
Net assets
$608,945,843
Employees
2,470
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,967,935
Bad debt
$34,007,274
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,594,905)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$881,947
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$62,879
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$944,826 to Joel Phelps

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, Salina Regional Health Center, EIN 48-1169103, 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)$55.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.0M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($34.0M) 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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Salina Regional Health Center: CEO pay $944,826, charity care 0.47% of expenses