Cottage Health CEO salary and executive pay
Cottage Health paid its CEO, Ronald Werft, $2,100,995 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $98,651 (4.9%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $290,408,292, up 9.3% from $265,722,760 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Cottage Health ranks 168th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Cottage Health has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 77-0431902, Santa Barbara, CA.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$2,100,995
- Total revenue
- $290,408,292
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 97%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202513179349304911.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 6th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.72% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
The system's largest single return is filed separately by Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (EIN 95-1644629), so the revenue shown here is this return's own, not the whole system's.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 16 people were paid more than $500,000, 6 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Ronald Werft CEO President & CEO | $2,100,995 |
| Lisa MooreExecutive VP and COO | $1,236,753 |
| Kristin TufvessonSenior VP and CFO | $1,182,544 |
| Stacy BratcherSenior VP and Chief Legal Officer | $1,095,971 |
| Sheri RibeiroVice President Information Technology and CIO (Part year through July 2024) | $1,051,259 |
Also paid on the latest return: Edmund Wroblewski MD (Vice President Medical Affairs), $1,004,190; Kathryn Bazylewicz (Vice President Marketing & Population Health), $966,497; Cara Williams (Vice President Human Resources & CHRO), $825,948; Lorenzo Olivarez (Vice President Finance/Controller (Part year through October 2024)), $820,688; Kevin Davidson (Vice President, Ambulatory Services), $682,032; Laura Canfield (Vice President Patient Care Services & CNO), $665,905; Nicholas Henderson (Vice President Support Services), $602,095; Christopher Le Renard MD (Chief Medical Information Officer), $544,720; Sharon Lutz (Vice President Quality Support Services), $536,592; Sandra Lood (Vice President Revenue Cycle), $533,808; David Brown (Vice President Advancement), $526,800.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Eric Seale (Vice Chair), Ginger Salazar (Vice Chair), Richard Ponce MD (Secretary), Steven Zola (Board Chair), Bhupi Singh (Board Member), Ernesto Paredes (Board Member), Gamble Parks ATTY (Board Member), Mark Scott MD (Board Member), Pamela Gann (Board Member), Roberta Griffin (Board Member), Robin Malone MD (Board Member), Steve Ortiz (Board Member), Susan Christol-Deacon (Board Member), Thomas Cusack (Board Member), Wesley Schooler MD (Board Member), Yulun Wang PhD (Board Member).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | Ronald Werft CEO President & CEO | $2,100,995 | $290,408,292 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Ronald Werft CEO President & CEO | $2,002,344 | $265,722,760 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | Ronald Werft CEO President & CEO | $1,899,989 | $245,918,183 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202513179349304911.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Ronald WerftPresident & CEO | $2,013,630 | $87,365 | $1,426,504 | $556,160 | $30,966 | $65,692 | $21,673 | $2,100,995 |
| Lisa MooreExecutive VP and COO | $1,154,452 | $82,301 | $766,364 | $264,555 | $123,533 | $63,340 | $18,961 | $1,236,753 |
| Kristin TufvessonSenior VP and CFO | $1,077,998 | $104,546 | $669,693 | $217,411 | $190,894 | $70,000 | $34,546 | $1,182,544 |
| Stacy BratcherSenior VP and Chief Legal Officer | $996,206 | $99,765 | $689,113 | $165,638 | $141,455 | $70,000 | $29,765 | $1,095,971 |
| Sheri RibeiroVice President Information Technology and CIO (Part year through July 2024) | $984,054 | $67,205 | $281,903 | $105,654 | $596,497 | $47,000 | $20,205 | $1,051,259 |
These figures come from Cottage Health's Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
How Cottage Health compares
Ranked 168th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 167th, St. Luke's Health System (Idaho), $2,104,597
- Next in this ranking: 169th, Renown Health, $2,097,846
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Baptist Health (Jacksonville)$2,654,184 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City)$4,448,392 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2023
Children's Wisconsin$2,658,331 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
ProMedica Health System$3,133,332 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Summa Health$2,239,929 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Ronald Werft (President & CEO) was paid $2,100,995 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $2,013,630 from Cottage Health and $87,365 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Ronald Werft, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,100,995.
Cottage Health paid its CEO, Ronald Werft, $2,100,995 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $98,651 (4.9%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Ronald Werft, paid $1,899,989. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $1,899,989 (Ronald Werft); December 2023, $2,002,344; December 2024, $2,100,995.
Cottage Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $293,909,702 and total revenue of $290,408,292 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $3,501,410. Expenses were $272,955,448 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 7.7%. The CEO's pay of $2,100,995 equals 0.71% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Cottage Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 13, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.