Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

West Virginia · Ranked 430 of 1033 by CEO pay.

United Hospital Center

David Hess, President / CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$981,039
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.60%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
18.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
David Hess’s pay of $981,039 equals 18.7 percent of the $5,243,884 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,012,055,073
Total expenses
$869,147,676
Net assets
$1,180,055,031
Employees
4,008
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$5,243,884
Bad debt
$13,329,043
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($89,545,393)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$825,705
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$155,334
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$981,039 to David Hess

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, United Hospital Center, EIN 55-0525724, 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)$62.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$5.2M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($13.3M) 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
United Hospital Center Inc55-05257242024-12$761.6M$3.9M0.63%990
St Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon Inc55-03569962024-12$131.1M$792,6820.74%990
The West Virginia Health Care Cooperative Inc55-06504412024-12$87.7M$442,9190.57%990
Braxton County Memorial Hospital Inc55-06119192024-12$31.7M$123,2430.42%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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United Hospital Center: CEO pay $981,039, charity care 0.60% of expenses