Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Tennessee · Not ranked: see note below.

Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital

Hunter Hamilton, Administrator & CNO - Hcmh. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$210,514
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
5.07%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
22.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Hunter Hamilton’s pay of $210,514 equals 22.5 percent of the $934,093 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$19,317,262
Total expenses
$18,430,382
Net assets
$2,284,410
Employees
109
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$934,093
Bad debt
$2,221,718
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$148,642
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$175,975
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$34,539
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$210,514 to Hunter Hamilton

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, Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital, EIN 62-1816368, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: administrator title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$2.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$934,093 (36%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.2M) 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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Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $210,514, charity care 5.07% of expenses