Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2025
It’s been a busy 2024 for Ardent Health acquisitions. The Brentwood, Tenn.-based health system acquired nine urgent care centers in 2024 in Topeka, Kan., and East Texas, and 18 urgent care clinics across New Mexico and Oklahoma in early 2025.
The system, which went public in July 2024, comprises 30 acute care hospitals, 200 care sites and more than 1,800 providers across six states.
“This is exactly what we said we were going to do when we went public,” Marty Bonick, president and CEO of Ardent Health, told Becker’s. “Inside of our eight markets, we’ve got a plan [looking at] what are the necessary outpatient and ambulatory components we need, whether that’s urgent care, ASC, freestanding emergency room, micro...