---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001756655-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARDT"
cik: "0001756655"
company_name: "Ardent Health, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T01:36:47.008908+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ardent Health President of Hospital Operations David Schultz Departs

## Summary
- David Schultz no longer serves as President, Hospital Operations, effective June 16, 2025.
- Departure treated as a 'Qualifying Termination' under the company's Executive Severance Plan.
- Schultz eligible for severance benefits per plan terms; no replacement named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001756655-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARDT
- cik: 0001756655
- company_name: Ardent Health, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000175665525000009/0001756655-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000175665525000009/ardt-20250616.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001756655-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Schultz departed as President, Hospital Operations at Ardent Health, Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: President, Hospital Operations
  source text: On June 16, 2025, Ardent Health, Inc. (the “Company”) and David Schultz determined that Mr. Schultz would no longer serve as President, Hospital Operations and would depart the Company effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1756655/000175665525000009/0001756655-25-000009-index.htm

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