Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Ranked 698 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Vernon Memorial Healthcare

David Hartberg, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$478,006
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.43%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
36.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
David Hartberg’s pay of $478,006 equals 36.8 percent of the $1,299,611 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$97,065,259
Total expenses
$90,747,432
Net assets
$126,289,284
Employees
564
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,299,611
Bad debt
$2,306,268
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($30,351)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$437,056
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$40,950
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$478,006 to David Hartberg

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, Vernon Memorial Healthcare, EIN 39-0806404, 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)$5.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.3M (25%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.3M) 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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Vernon Memorial Healthcare: CEO pay $478,006, charity care 1.43% of expenses