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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-027604"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARDT"
cik: "0001756655"
company_name: "Ardent Health, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T14:47:42.167914+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ardent Health Partners changes name to Ardent Health, Inc. effective June 3, 2025

## Summary
- Name change to Ardent Health, Inc.; effective June 3, 2025; NYSE ticker ARDT unchanged.
- Board approved amendment; stockholder approval not required under Delaware law.
- Annual meeting on May 21, 2025: 11 directors elected; say-on-pay approved with ~98.8% for.
- Say-on-pay frequency set to annual until next vote; Ernst & Young ratified as auditor for FY2025.
- No change to stockholder rights, CUSIP number, or trading symbol.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-027604
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARDT
- cik: 0001756655
- company_name: Ardent Health, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828025027604/0001628280-25-027604-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828025027604/ardt-20250521.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-027604.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ardent Health, Inc.: Name change from Ardent Health Partners, Inc. to Ardent Health, Inc (effective 2025-06-03).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-03
  source text: On May 22, 2025, Ardent Health Partners, Inc. (the "Company") filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation to change its name to Ardent Health, Inc. (the "Amendment"), effective June 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828025027604/0001628280-25-027604-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Ardent Health, Inc.: Bylaws amended and restated to reflect new company name (effective 2025-06-03).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-03
  source text: In conjunction with the name change, the Company's Bylaws are being amended and restated to reflect the Company's new name effective as of, and contingent upon, the effectiveness of the Amendment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828025027604/0001628280-25-027604-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.