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Owner of area health care properties will make $1.75B purchase

Ventas Inc., which owns half a dozen health-care properties in the Kansas City area, will buy Ardent Medical Services Inc. in a $1.75 billion deal, the company said Monday.

Chicago-based Ventas plans to purchase Ardent Health Services in a cash deal. It plans to retain the property, but sell Ardent’s hospital operations to one or more new companies owned by Ardent management and other equity sources. Nashville-based Ardent owns acute-care health systems in Amarillo, Texas; Tulsa, Okla.; and Albuquerque,…