Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kentucky · Ranked 959 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Wayne County Hospital

Joe Murrell, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-10.

$206,470
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.48%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
189.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Joe Murrell’s reported compensation was $206,470. The system’s charity care for the same year was $108,787. One person’s reported compensation was 1.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$25,039,796
Total expenses
$22,849,774
Net assets
$9,734,462
Employees
278
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$108,787
Bad debt
$1,509,574
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$123,202
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$183,702
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$22,768
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$206,470 to Joe Murrell

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, Wayne County Hospital, EIN 61-0847215, 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)$477,665 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$108,787 (23%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.5M) 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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Wayne County Hospital: CEO pay $206,470, charity care 0.48% of expenses