Ardent Health, Inc.

Ardent Health, Inc. provides healthcare services across inpatient, ambulatory, and virtual care settings. The company delivers general and specialized medical services, including internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, general surgery, neurology, urology, women’s healthcare, and emergency care. In addition to acute care hospitals, Ardent operates a primary and specialty care clinic network, urgent care centers, ambulatory surgery centers, freestanding emergency departments, and diagnostic imaging centers. Services are also supported through telehealth and remote patient monitoring tools. Its customers consist of individual patients and their local communities across its regional networks.

The organization operates 30 acute care hospitals and over 280 care sites across eight mid-sized urban markets in six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas. Care is delivered through a network of more than 2,000 employed and affiliated healthcare providers. A significant portion of its hospitals and healthcare facilities are operated through joint ventures with academic medical centers, non-profit health systems, and physician groups. The provided text does not identify the location of the company's corporate headquarters.

Summary of the business section of Ardent Health's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

“As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 25,200 total employees, including more than 19,500 full-time employees and 1,480 employed providers.”