Ardent Health, Inc. ARDT

What this company does

Ardent operates hospitals and other health care facilities in the United States, across eight mid-sized urban markets in six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas. As of December 31, 2025, it delivered care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, more than 280 sites of care, and over 2,000 providers either employed by or affiliated with it. During 2025 it served approximately 1.2 million unique patients who accounted for more than 6.1 million visits with its health care providers, caring for approximately 17,000 people on an average day across its network. Beyond its acute care hospitals, it operates a network of ambulatory and telehealth facilities, including 188 primary care and specialty care clinics, four ambulatory surgery centers, 45 urgent care centers, two free-standing emergency departments, and 12 diagnostic imaging centers. It operates hospitals and health facilities either independently or in partnership with academic medical centers, not-for-profit hospital systems, community physicians, and a community foundation through a joint venture model. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 25,200 total employees, including more than 19,500 full-time employees and 1,480 employed providers. Ardent Health, Inc. was initially formed in Delaware in 2015 as Ardent Health Partners, LLC.

Written from the business description in Ardent Health, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 16 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.