Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arkansas · Ranked 694 of 1033 by CEO pay.

White County Medical Center

Ladonna Johnston, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$483,012
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.64%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
20.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Ladonna Johnston’s pay of $483,012 equals 20.0 percent of the $2,413,135 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$385,103,504
Total expenses
$378,186,161
Net assets
$372,997,837
Employees
2,762
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$2,413,135
Bad debt
$16,049,148
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$1,936,958
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$430,061
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$52,951
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$483,012 to Ladonna Johnston

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, White County Medical Center, EIN 71-0772737, 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)$19.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.4M (12%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($16.0M) 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
White County Medical Center Inc71-07727372025-09$336.7M$2.0M0.64%990
Unity Health - Newport86-18351492025-09$33.4M$302,9470.90%990
Unity Health - Jacksonville86-25648772025-09$15.0M$144,9380.66%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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White County Medical Center: CEO pay $483,012, charity care 0.64% of expenses