Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Colorado · Ranked 300 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Will Cook, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-10.

$1.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.57%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
60.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Will Cook’s pay of $1,399,969 equals 60.3 percent of the $2,319,814 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$389,307,157
Total expenses
$410,120,340
Net assets
$626,657,023
Employees
2,088
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,319,814
Bad debt
$14,239,769
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($40,542,353)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,323,823
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$76,146
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,399,969 to Will Cook

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, Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department, EIN 84-0563230, fiscal year ending 2024-10, 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)$34.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.3M (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($14.2M) 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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Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department: CEO pay $1.4M, charity care 0.57% of expenses