Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Indiana · Not ranked: see note below.

St Joseph Hospital & Health Center

Don Chase Damron, President, St. Joseph Hospital. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$572,936
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.03%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
32.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Don Chase Damron’s pay of $572,936 equals 32.6 percent of the $1,756,254 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$174,072,958
Total expenses
$170,539,619
Net assets
$21,808,023
Employees
765
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,756,254
Bad debt
$1,827,235
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$1,811,914
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$442,978
From related organizations (col. E)
$99,509
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$30,449
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$572,936 to Don Chase Damron

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 Joseph Hospital & Health Center, EIN 35-0992717, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$21.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.8M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.8M) 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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St Joseph Hospital & Health Center: CEO pay $572,936, charity care 1.03% of expenses