Ventas Completes Secured Debt Financing for Ardent Health Services’ Acquisition of LHP Hospital Group, Inc.

Transaction Makes Ardent the Second Largest Private, For-Profit
Hospital Operator in the U.S. Generating $3 Billion in Revenues in Six
States with Significant Market Share

Adds Key Not-For-Profit and Academic Medical Center Relationships to
Ventas’s Hospital Platform, Further Expanding the Company’s Partnerships
with Institutional-Quality Health Systems

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$VTR–Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) (“Ventas” or the “Company”) announced today
that it has completed its previously announced secured debt financing in
the amount of $700 million to a subsidiary of Ardent Health Services
(“Ardent”) in connection with Ardent’s acquisition of LHP Hospital
Group, Inc. (“LHP”), which was completed today.

To complete Ardent’s purchase of LHP, Ventas provided a five-year
LIBOR-based loan (“the Loan”), guaranteed by Ardent’s parent company,
which bears an initial cash interest rate of approximately 8%. As part
of the transaction, Ardent also received a significant equity
contribution from its majority owner, an affiliate of Equity Group
Investments (“EGI”). Ventas also made an equity contribution to maintain
its 9.9% equity stake in Ardent. The transaction is structured to enable
Ardent to maintain a strong financial profile.

“We are proud to be part of a powerful partnership with Ardent and EGI
as Ardent grows its leading high-quality hospital company and continues
to serve patients, physicians and communities,” said Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Debra A. Cafaro. “The acquisition of LHP enhances
Ardent’s scale and diversification by adding LHP’s high-quality
portfolio, valuable partnerships with not-for-profit and academic
medical centers and significant market share in attractive markets.”

Ventas expects the Loan to be accretive to 2017 normalized funds from
operations (“FFO”) per share. The impact of the transaction is already
reflected in the Company’s 2017 normalized FFO per share guidance range
issued in its February 10, 2017 press release. Ventas funded the
transaction using cash on hand and other capital sources.

Upon completion of the transaction today, Ardent became the second
largest private, for-profit hospital operator in the United States, with
19 hospitals and related sites of care in six states and $3 billion in
annual revenues. Through its shared focus on local partnerships and
collaboration, Ardent will continue LHP’s emphasis on joint venture
partnerships with top tier not-for-profit and academic health systems.

David T. Vandewater will continue to serve as CEO of Ardent. Ardent has
also appointed Paul Kappelman, interim CEO of LHP, as the executive vice
president and COO for Ardent. Kappelman will oversee day-to-day
operations of Ardent in all of its markets. Over the coming year, Ardent
expects to realize meaningful synergies in the transaction.

Ventas, Inc., an S&P 500 company, is a leading real estate investment
trust. Its diverse portfolio of approximately 1,300 assets in the United
States, Canada and the United Kingdom consists of seniors housing
communities, medical office buildings, life science and innovation
centers, skilled nursing facilities, specialty hospitals and general
acute care hospitals. Through its Lillibridge subsidiary, Ventas
provides management, leasing, marketing, facility development and
advisory services to highly rated hospitals and health systems
throughout the United States.

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All
statements regarding the Company’s or its tenants’, operators’,
borrowers’ or managers’ expected future financial condition, results of
operations, cash flows, funds from operations, dividends and dividend
plans, financing opportunities and plans, capital markets transactions,
business strategy, budgets, projected costs, operating metrics, capital
expenditures, competitive positions, acquisitions, investment
opportunities, dispositions, merger or acquisition integration, growth
opportunities, expected lease income, continued qualification as a real
estate investment trust (“REIT”), plans and objectives of management for
future operations and statements that include words such as
“anticipate,” “if,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,”
“may,” “could,” “should,” “will” and other similar expressions are
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are
inherently uncertain, and actual results may differ from the Company’s
expectations. The Company does not undertake a duty to update these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which
they are made.

The Company’s actual future results and trends may differ materially
from expectations depending on a variety of factors discussed in the
Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These
factors include without limitation: (a) the ability and willingness of
the Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers, managers and other third
parties to satisfy their obligations under their respective contractual
arrangements with the Company, including, in some cases, their
obligations to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company from and
against various claims, litigation and liabilities; (b) the ability of
the Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers and managers to maintain the
financial strength and liquidity necessary to satisfy their respective
obligations and liabilities to third parties, including without
limitation obligations under their existing credit facilities and other
indebtedness; (c) the Company’s success in implementing its business
strategy and the Company’s ability to identify, underwrite, finance,
consummate and integrate diversifying acquisitions and investments; (d)
macroeconomic conditions such as a disruption of or lack of access to
the capital markets, changes in the debt rating on U.S. government
securities, default or delay in payment by the United States of its
obligations, and changes in the federal or state budgets resulting in
the reduction or nonpayment of Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement rates;
(e) the nature and extent of future competition, including new
construction in the markets in which the Company’s seniors housing
communities and medical office buildings (“MOBs”) are located; (f) the
extent and effect of future or pending healthcare reform and regulation,
including cost containment measures and changes in reimbursement
policies, procedures and rates; (g) increases in the Company’s borrowing
costs as a result of changes in interest rates and other factors; (h)
the ability of the Company’s tenants, operators and managers, as
applicable, to comply with laws, rules and regulations in the operation
of the Company’s properties, to deliver high-quality services, to
attract and retain qualified personnel and to attract residents
and patients; (i) changes in general economic conditions or economic
conditions in the markets in which the Company may, from time to time,
compete, and the effect of those changes on the Company’s revenues,
earnings and funding sources; (j) the Company’s ability to pay down,
refinance, restructure or extend its indebtedness as it becomes due; (k)
the Company’s ability and willingness to maintain its qualification as a
REIT in light of economic, market, legal, tax and other considerations;
(l) final determination of the Company’s taxable net income for the year
ended December 31, 2016 and for the year ending December 31, 2017; (m)
the ability and willingness of the Company’s tenants to renew their
leases with the Company upon expiration of the leases, the Company’s
ability to reposition its properties on the same or better terms in the
event of nonrenewal or in the event the Company exercises its right to
replace an existing tenant, and obligations, including indemnification
obligations, the Company may incur in connection with the replacement of
an existing tenant; (n) risks associated with the Company’s senior
living operating portfolio, such as factors that can cause volatility in
the Company’s operating income and earnings generated by those
properties, including without limitation national and regional economic
conditions, costs of food, materials, energy, labor and services,
employee benefit costs, insurance costs and professional and general
liability claims, and the timely delivery of accurate property-level
financial results for those properties; (o) changes in exchange rates
for any foreign currency in which the Company may, from time to time,
conduct business; (p) year-over-year changes in the Consumer Price Index
or the UK Retail Price Index and the effect of those changes on the rent
escalators contained in the Company’s leases and the Company’s earnings;
(q) the Company’s ability and the ability of its tenants, operators,
borrowers and managers to obtain and maintain adequate property,
liability and other insurance from reputable, financially stable
providers; (r) the impact of increased operating costs and uninsured
professional liability claims on the Company’s liquidity, financial
condition and results of operations or that of the Company’s tenants,
operators, borrowers and managers, and the ability of the Company and
the Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers and managers to accurately
estimate the magnitude of those claims; (s) risks associated with the
Company’s MOB portfolio and operations, including the Company’s ability
to successfully design, develop and manage MOBs and to retain key
personnel; (t) the ability of the hospitals on or near whose campuses
the Company’s MOBs are located and their affiliated health systems to
remain competitive and financially viable and to attract physicians and
physician groups; (u) risks associated with the Company’s investments in
joint ventures and unconsolidated entities, including its lack of sole
decision-making authority and its reliance on its joint venture
partners’ financial condition; (v) the Company’s ability to obtain the
financial results expected from its development and redevelopment
projects; (w) the impact of market or issuer events on the liquidity or
value of the Company’s investments in marketable securities; (x)
consolidation activity in the seniors housing and healthcare industries
resulting in a change of control of, or a competitor’s investment in,
one or more of the Company’s tenants, operators, borrowers or managers
or significant changes in the senior management of the Company’s
tenants, operators, borrowers or managers; (y) the impact of litigation
or any financial, accounting, legal or regulatory issues that may affect
the Company or its tenants, operators, borrowers or managers; and (z)
changes in accounting principles, or their application or
interpretation, and the Company’s ability to make estimates and the
assumptions underlying the estimates, which could have an effect on the
Company’s earnings.

The Company routinely announces material information to investors and
the marketplace using press releases, SEC filings, public conference
calls, webcasts and the Company’s website at www.ventasreit.com/investor-relations.
The information that the Company posts to its website may be deemed to
be material. Accordingly, the Company encourages investors and others
interested in the Company to routinely monitor and review the
information that the Company posts on its website, in addition to
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