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Ardent Health Services, Nashville's fourth-largest private company, has announced plans to buy Plano-based LHP Hospital Group.
The combined company will operate 19 hospitals across six states and bring in $3 billion in annual revenue, creating the second-largest private, for-profit hospital operator in the United States, according to a news release.
Terms of the deal, expected to close in early 2017, were not disclosed. The combined company will be headquartered in Nashville and will be led by…