Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Rhode Island · Ranked 435 of 1033 by CEO pay.

South County Hospital Healthcare System

Aaron S Robinson, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$964,634
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.25%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
160.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Aaron S Robinson’s reported compensation was $964,634. The system’s charity care for the same year was $601,489. One person’s reported compensation was 1.6 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$232,310,829
Total expenses
$236,679,404
Net assets
$109,854,022
Employees
1,647
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$601,489
Bad debt
$7,679,289
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($4,182,618)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$912,771
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$51,863
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$964,634 to Aaron S Robinson

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, South County Hospital Healthcare System, EIN 05-0445136, 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)$2.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$601,489 (22%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($7.7M) 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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South County Hospital Healthcare System: CEO pay $964,634, charity care 0.25% of expenses