Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Ohio · Ranked 205 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Christ Hospital

Deborah Hayes, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.9M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
74.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Deborah Hayes’s pay of $1,872,912 equals 74.8 percent of the $2,504,110 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,491,663,160
Total expenses
$1,453,611,579
Net assets
$938,031,815
Employees
8,770
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,504,110
Bad debt
$43,689,304
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($32,621,316)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,417,535
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$455,377
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,872,912 to Deborah Hayes

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, The Christ Hospital, EIN 31-0538525, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$68.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.5M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($43.7M) 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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The Christ Hospital: CEO pay $1.9M, charity care 0.17% of expenses