Operator
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Quarter 2015 Tenet Healthcare Earnings Conference Call. My name is Dana and I'll be your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. The slides referred to in today's call are posted on the company's website. Please note the cautionary statement on forward-looking information included in the slides. I will now turn the call over to Trevor Fetter, Tenet's President and CEO. Mr. Fetter, please go ahead, sir. Trevor Fetter - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thank you, operator, and good morning everyone. During the first quarter, we made great progress advancing our long-term strategy and strengthening our position in the evolving healthcare landscape. The transformative agreement we announced with Welsh Carson in March creates a joint venture between Tenet and United Surgical Partners International that will establish us as the leader in the ambulatory surgery market. This further aligns Tenet with the major trends impacting the delivery of healthcare and shifts the balance of our business toward faster growing, more profitable, and less capital intensive businesses. Also in March, we announced a joint venture with Baylor Scott & White Health. This transaction is the latest example of how we're able to partner with leading not-for-profit healthcare providers to enhance our market presence without the risk and capital required for full-fledged acquisitions. I'll discuss these in a few minutes, but I'll first give you some highlights of our financial results for the quarter. We achieved adjusted EBITDA of $529 million during the quarter, which was slightly above the high end of our guidance and represented an increase of 37% over the same period last year. Our strong volume performance in the second half of last year continued into 2015,…