Ardent Health, Inc.
A healthcare company headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, that owns and operates hospitals and community care sites across six US states including Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. It was founded in 1993 by Edward Stack as the Behavioral Healthcare Corporation, and renamed "Ardent" — from the word meaning passionate — in 2005 after new owners steered it from mental-health facilities toward general acute-care hospitals. Today its hospitals treat patients in communities across the Midwest and the South.