Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arkansas · Ranked 417 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Bernards Hospital

Chris Barber, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.89%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($955,960 of $1,001,859) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$724,367,919
Total expenses
$669,894,575
Net assets
$286,118,864
Employees
4,779
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$12,688,891
Bad debt
$49,384,181
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$15,335,926
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$955,960
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,899
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,001,859 to Chris Barber

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, St Bernards Hospital, EIN 71-0290019, 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)$20.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$12.7M (62%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($49.4M) 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
St Bernards Hospital Inc71-02900192025-09$686.4M$11.7M1.86%990
St Bernards Community Hospital71-08352472025-09$22.6M$543,6042.45%990
Five Rivers Medical Center Inc27-39708232025-09$15.3M$432,9292.43%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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St Bernards Hospital: CEO pay $1.0M, charity care 1.89% of expenses