Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Tennessee · Virginia · Ranked 628 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Wellmont Health System

John Jeter, CEO Brmc/Jmh. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$576,994
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.03%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
2.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($526,257 of $576,994) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,129,649,153
Total expenses
$1,097,669,250
Net assets
$529,934,149
Employees
3,971
Hospitals covered
6 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$22,240,687
Bad debt
$59,454,098
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$10,605,987
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$526,257
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$50,737
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$576,994 to John Jeter

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 Health System, EIN 62-1636465, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$119.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$22.2M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($59.5M) 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
Wellmont Health System62-16364652025-06$933.2M$20.0M2.17%990
Johnston Memorial Hospital Inc54-05447052025-06$196.4M$2.3M1.27%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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Wellmont Health System: CEO pay $576,994, charity care 2.03% of expenses