Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Maryland · Ranked 524 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Shore Health System

Kenneth D Kozel, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$765,691
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.87%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
26.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kenneth D Kozel’s pay of $765,691 equals 26.0 percent of the $2,950,385 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$395,565,106
Total expenses
$339,144,210
Net assets
$577,706,570
Employees
1,888
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$2,950,385
Bad debt
$9,936,289
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$32,308,046
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$722,577
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$43,114
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$765,691 to Kenneth D Kozel

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, Shore Health System, EIN 52-0610538, 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)$14.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.0M (21%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.9M) 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
Shore Health System Inc52-06105382025-06$342.2M$2.9M1.02%990
Chester River Hospital Center Inc52-06796942025-06$53.4M$71,6190.17%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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Shore Health System: CEO pay $765,691, charity care 0.87% of expenses