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This website and its content are owned by AHS Management Company, Inc. ("AHS"), a Tennessee corporation that is headquartered at 340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027. AHS is a healthcare management company which provides various management and administrative services to hospitals and healthcare delivery locations affiliated with Ardent Health, Inc. It does not provide any clinical services or mange the delivery of clinical services to patients as those services are managed and delivered by the persons involved in the direct episode of care for the specific patient.
Ardent Health, Inc. is a holding company and does not engage in any business other than those activities associated with being a publicly-traded company (NYSE: ARDT), such as listing agreements with the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and registration and compliance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Both the NYSE and SEC require that public companies maintain information on an internet website that is accessible to stockholders; and this website fulfills those obligations. The information contained in the website must be consistent with the official filings with these regulatory institutions. Integral to those requirements is that information be presented in a consolidated fashion and include statements and operating results for Ardent Health, Inc. and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. Statements that include the words "we", "us", "our", "the Company", and similar words are intended to be summary information about the consolidation of Ardent Health, Inc. and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and are not intended to bind or imply that the actions of one legal entity should be attributed to the actions of another legal entity (such as Ardent Health, Inc.). In its registered filings with the SEC, Ardent Health, Inc., is required to adhere to the SEC's principles of "plain English" and avoid the use of defined terms, jargon, and parenthetical exculpatory statements; for ease of reading, this website adheres to those principles.
Ardent Health, Inc. does not directly own or operate any hospitals. The hospitals affiliated with Ardent Health, Inc. are generally owned (or leased) and operated by separate and distinct legal entities. Each such legal entity is responsible for the healthcare services delivered at its respective facility(ies) by its team members and employs the vast majority of the personnel providing services at its locations. Sometimes these legal entities will contract with third party providers to provide certain healthcare services to patients and, to the extent permitted by state law where the facility(ies) are located, those third parties are responsible for the care that their personnel provide at their respective facilities. Furthermore, each hospital has its own medical staff that is governed by and granted privileges to work at that hospital by the medical staff as required by the state in which the hospital operates.
This website includes links to websites and material that may be outside the control of Ardent Health, Inc. or AHS. These links are for the convenience of the users of this website and by utilizing such links, users acknowledge and agree that they will not hold Ardent Health, Inc. or AHS responsible for the accuracy of the statements or the content on such linked websites.
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Statements contained on this website are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual future events or results may differ materially from these statements. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Ardent Health, Inc. with the SEC, specifically the most recent filings which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including execution of Ardent Health, Inc.'s growth, acquisition, and business strategies. These and other applicable risks are summarized under the caption "Risk Factors" in Ardent Health, Inc.'s SEC filings.