Ross Comeaux | Community Health Systems, Inc. |
Wayne T. Smith | Community Health Systems, Inc. |
Tim L. Hingtgen | Community Health Systems, Inc. |
Thomas J. Aaron | Community Health Systems, Inc. |
A.J. Rice | Credit Suisse Securities (NYSE:USA) LLC |
Chris Rigg | Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. |
Jason Plagman | Jefferies LLC |
Ralph Giacobbe | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
Mary Shang | Nephron Research LLC |
Ana A. Gupte | Leerink Partners LLC |
Stephen Tanal | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Peter Heinz Costa | Wells Fargo Securities LLC |
Kevin Mark Fischbeck | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Whit Mayo | Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. |
Good morning. My name is Denise, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Community Health Systems fourth quarter 2017 and year-end 2017 conference call. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Ross Comeaux, Vice President of Investor Relations.