Our Mission

Ardent Health Services is a premier provider of healthcare services, delivered with compassion for patients and their families, with respect for team members, physicians and other health professionals, with accountability for our fiscal and ethical performance, and with responsibility to the communities we serve.

Our Values

Above all, Ardent’s leadership and caregivers remain true to the following core values:

• We are dedicated to meeting the healthcare needs of our patients.
• We treat patients, team members, physicians and others with respect and compassion.
• We partner with physicians to provide the best care possible for our patients.
• We work to foster a fulfilling and challenging workplace for all.
• We continuously seek ways to improve the quality of care.
• We act with responsibility and accountability in the communities we serve.
• We expect 100 percent compliance with ethical and regulatory standards.
• We are dedicated to providing a fair return for our investors.

Our Philosophy

Every action we take at Ardent is built on three key tenets:

• Ardent recognizes that each hospital is as unique as the community it serves.
• We believe in working with team members and physicians to improve the quality of care, patient safety and customer service and we measure all three continuously.
• We reinvest in our facilities – helping our hospitals expand services, enhance technology and add new programs that fulfill their missions.

We believe it is this mix of corporate support and local autonomy that provides our hospitals with the tools they need to succeed.