Healthcare system operating 30 hospitals and 280 care sites across six states
Ardent Health operates a large, geographically distributed hospital network across the U.S. South and Midwest with 24,000+ employees and 8,000+ nurses serving 15,000 patients daily. The tech stack is heavily invested in Epic (EHR/billing), Workday (HR), and BI tools (Power BI), with recent adoption of open-source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) alongside legacy enterprise platforms—a pattern typical of healthcare systems modernizing analytics infrastructure. Active hiring is concentrated in healthcare operations, nursing, and engineering roles at senior and director levels, paired with explicit projects around Epic billing upgrades, disaster recovery, and revenue cycle optimization, suggesting a focus on operational resilience and claims efficiency.
Notable leadership hires: Finance Director, Supply Chain Director, Radiology Director
Ardent Health is a publicly traded healthcare system operator headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It owns and operates 30 acute care hospitals and approximately 280 additional care sites (urgent care, imaging, specialty practices) across six states, with over 1,800 employed and affiliated physicians. The organization employs more than 24,000 team members, including 8,000+ nurses, and delivers care to approximately 15,000 patients daily. Infrastructure is built on Epic Systems for clinical and billing workflows, Workday for workforce management, and a mix of BI and financial-planning tools (Power BI, Oracle Hyperion) for enterprise reporting. Current operational priorities include revenue cycle modernization, Epic billing-claims optimization, disaster recovery planning, and standardization of physician practice operations across the system.
Epic Systems (EHR and hospital billing), Workday (HR), Power BI (analytics), SQL Server, Kronos (workforce), Oracle Hyperion (financial planning), and AWS X-Ray. Recently adopting PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle for modernization.
30 acute care hospitals, plus approximately 280 additional care sites (clinics, urgent care, specialty practices) across six states, with over 1,800 employed and affiliated providers.
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