Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Mississippi · Ranked 997 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Winston County Medical Foundation

Micahel Nester, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$165,611
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.55%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
10.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$33,736,195
Total expenses
$34,815,819
Net assets
$2,109,392
Employees
376
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,585,627
Bad debt
$4,064,934
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($162,341)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$157,792
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$7,819
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$165,611 to Micahel Nester

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, Winston County Medical Foundation, EIN 64-6010402, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$1.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.6M (100%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.1M) 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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Winston County Medical Foundation: CEO pay $165,611, charity care 4.55% of expenses