# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001756655
**File Stem:** 0001756655-25-000009
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 5571
**Document Hash:** 7bac73a2039d1c2ef4d17d879515c2db
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001756655-25-000009.hdr.sgml**: 20250620

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001756655-25-000009

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250616

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250620

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250620

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Ardent Health, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001756655
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-GENERAL MEDICAL & SURGICAL HOSPITALS, NEC [8062]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 08 Industrial Applications and Services
- **EIN:** 611764793
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-42180
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251062057

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 340 SEVEN SPRINGS WAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** BRENTWOOD
- **STATE:** TN
- **ZIP:** 37027
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6152963000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 340 SEVEN SPRINGS WAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 100
- **CITY:** BRENTWOOD
- **STATE:** TN
- **ZIP:** 37027

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Ardent Health Partners, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20240717

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Ardent Health Partners, LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20181022

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**<br>

**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 20, 2025 (June 16, 2025)**

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| **ARDENT HEALTH, INC.** | **ARDENT HEALTH, INC.** |
| | **(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)** |

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| **Delaware** | **001-42180** | **61-1764793** |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation) | (Commission<br>File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer<br>Identification No.) |

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| **340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, Tennessee** | **37027** |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |

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**(615) 296-3000**

(Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code)

**Ardent Health Partners, Inc.**

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions:

□ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

□ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

□ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

□ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each Class** | **Trading**<br>**Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br>**on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $.01 par value per share | ARDT | New York Stock Exchange |

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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company □

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. □

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**Item 5.02.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**

On June 16, 2025, Ardent Health, Inc. (the "Company") and David Schultz determined that Mr. Schultz would no longer serve as President, Hospital Operations and would depart the Company effective immediately. The Company treated Mr. Schultz's departure from the Company as a "Qualifying Termination" pursuant to the Company's Executive Severance Plan (the "Severance Plan"). Mr. Schultz will be entitled to receive severance and related benefits for such a separation, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the Severance Plan. The severance and related benefits under the Severance Plan are described further in the proxy statement for the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, filed on Schedule 14A with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2025, and in the Severance Plan, filed as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended June 30, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2024.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| Dated: June 20, 2025&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | **ARDENT HEALTH, INC.** | **ARDENT HEALTH, INC.** |
|  | By: | /s/ Stephen C. Petrovich |
|  | Name: | Stephen C. Petrovich |
|  | Title: | Executive Vice President & General Counsel |

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