secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Ardent Health, Inc. (ARDT)
CIK:        0001756655
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-26T20:37:35+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-038152
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ardent Health shareholders elect 11 directors and approve say-on-pay at 2026 annual meeting
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- All 11 director nominees elected with strong support; Mark Sotir received 90.7M for, 861K withhold.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 91.1M for, 300.7K against, and 184.5K abstentions.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor approved with 97.9M for, 918K against, and 7.8K abstentions.
- Broker non-votes were 7.2M for director elections and say-on-pay, none for auditor ratification.
- Approximately 98.8M of 143.1M outstanding shares were voted (69% turnout).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828026038152/0001628280-26-038152-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000162828026038152/ardt-20260520.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-038152

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