Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 738 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Southern Monterey County Memorial Hospital

Rena Salamacha Bs MS, Trustee / Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$433,182
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
68.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Rena Salamacha Bs MS’s pay of $433,182 equals 68.3 percent of the $634,035 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$80,731,717
Total expenses
$73,249,164
Net assets
$54,915,373
Employees
459
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$634,035
Bad debt
$3,972,253
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$13,610,805
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$387,754
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,428
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$433,182 to Rena Salamacha Bs MS

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, Southern Monterey County Memorial Hospital, EIN 94-1502014, 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)$17.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$634,035 (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.0M) 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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Southern Monterey County Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $433,182, charity care 0.87% of expenses