{"id":1194379,"date":"2023-10-19T19:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194379"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:12:38","slug":"nonprofit-hospitals-skimp-on-charity-while-ceos-reap-millions-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194379","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-450235452-800x539-1.jpe\" alt=\"The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-450235452-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1724\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/exterior-view-of-the-robert-wood-johnson-university-news-photo\/450235452?adppopup=true\">Getty |  Bobby Bank<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Nonprofit hospitals are under increasing scrutiny for skimping on charity care, relentlessly pursuing payments from low-income patients, and paying executives massive multi-million-dollar salaries\u2014all while earning tax breaks totaling billions.<\/p>\n<p>One such hospital system is RWJBarnabas Health, a large nonprofit chain in New Jersey, whose CEO made a whopping $17 million in 2021, while the hospital system only spent 1.65 percent of its nearly $6 billion in revenue on charity care.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/chair\/newsroom\/press\/news-sanders-statement-on-the-field-hearing-on-the-nursing-crisis-in-new-jersey-and-throughout-the-country\">gearing up for a showdown next week<\/a> with the CEO of RWJBarnabas Health, Mark Manigan. Nurses at one of the chain&#8217;s locations, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, are on strike, saying that the facility has become a dangerous place to work due to inadequate staffing levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977336#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977336&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (credit: Getty | Bobby Bank) Nonprofit hospitals are under increasing scrutiny for skimping on charity care, relentlessly pursuing payments from low-income patients, and paying executives massive multi-million-dollar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1194379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}