Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Cross-Country Healthcare's Earnings Conference call for the first quarter of 2021. A replay of this call will also be available through May 19, 2021 and can be accessed either on the company's website or by dialing 800-510-0118 for domestic calls and 203-369-3808 for international calls. and by entering the passcode 2021. At the conclusion of the prepared remarks, I will open the lines for questions. I will now turn the call over to Bill Burns, Cross Country Healthcare's Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Cross Country Healthcare's first quarter 2021 earnings call.

I'm joined today by our co-founder and chief executive officer, Kevin Clark, as well as Buffy White, group president of Workforce Solutions and Services, and John Martins, group president of Nurse and Allied. Today's call will include a discussion of our financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and our outlook for the second quarter. A copy of our earnings press release is available on our website at crosscountryhealthcare.com. Please note that certain statements made on this call may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements reflect the company's current beliefs based upon information currently available to it. As noted in our press release, forward-looking statements can vary materially from actual results and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including those contained in the company's 2020 annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as in other filings with the SEC. The company does not intend to update guidance or any of its forward-looking statements prior to the next earnings release. Additionally, we reference non-GAAP financial measures such as adjusted EBITDA or adjusted earnings per share. Such non-GAAP financial measures are provided as additional information and should not be considered substitutes for or superior to financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. More information related to these non-GAAP measures is contained in our press release. And just before I turn the call over to Kevin, it's worth noting that effective with the first quarter, we have changed our reportable segments. And going forward, we'll be reporting only two segments, nurse and allied staffing and physician staffing. The prior segment, known as SEARCH, has been consolidated with the nurse and allied, and all prior period results have been reclassified to conform with the current period presentation. With that, I'll now turn the call over to our co-founder and chief executive officer, Kevin Clark.