# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001756655
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-185387
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 2841
**Document Hash:** 8d188dad5ae2fccdd303686667bb7ef1
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-185387.hdr.sgml**: 20250923

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-185387

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250821

**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:** CORRESP

**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

August 21, 2025

<u>Via EDGAR</u> 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549-3720

Attention: Jane Park

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| Re: | Ardent Health, Inc.<br> Registration Statement on Form S-3<br> File No. 333-289763 | Ardent Health, Inc.<br> Registration Statement on Form S-3<br> File No. 333-289763 |
|  | **Acceleration Request** | **Acceleration Request** |
|  |  | **Requested Date: August 25, 2025** |
|  |  | **Requested Time: 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time** |

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Ardent Health, Inc. (the "***Company***") hereby requests that the effective date of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "***Registration Statement***") be accelerated so that the Registration Statement will become effective at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on August 25, 2025, or as soon thereafter as practicable or at such later time as the Company or its counsel may orally request via telephone call to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Please contact Michael P. Heinz of Sidley Austin LLP at (212) 839-5444 with any questions regarding the foregoing and to confirm the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

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| Very truly yours, |
| /s/ Stephen C. Petrovich |
| Stephen C. Petrovich |
| Executive Vice President and General Counsel |
| Ardent Health, Inc. |

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cc: Martin J. Bonick, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ardent Health, Inc. Michael P. Heinz, Sidley Austin LLP Samir A. Gandhi, Sidley Austin LLP