Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 386 of 1033 by CEO pay.

South Georgia Medical Center

Ronald Dean, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
6.68%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
2.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$577,855,117
Total expenses
$533,365,833
Net assets
$484,446,588
Employees
3,667
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$35,630,958
Bad debt
$53,086,029
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$6,264,200
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,015,989
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$34,518
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,050,507 to Ronald Dean

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 Georgia Medical Center, EIN 87-4714839, 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)$37.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$35.6M (96%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($53.1M) 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 Georgia Medical Center: CEO pay $1.1M, charity care 6.68% of expenses