Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 886 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Southwest Healthcare Services

Dennis Goebel, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$266,518
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.50%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
286.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Dennis Goebel’s reported compensation was $266,518. The system’s charity care for the same year was $93,000. One person’s reported compensation was 2.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$17,857,522
Total expenses
$18,515,844
Net assets
$6,144,587
Employees
160
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$93,000
Bad debt
$97,176
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($36,965)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$252,170
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$14,348
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$266,518 to Dennis Goebel

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, Southwest Healthcare Services, EIN 45-0458242, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$1.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$93,000 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($97,176) 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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Southwest Healthcare Services: CEO pay $266,518, charity care 0.50% of expenses