The Ensign Group, Inc.

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Ensign Group First Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star 1 on your telephone. As a reminder, today's program may be recorded. And now I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Chad Keech, Chief Investment Officer.

Please go ahead, sir.

Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We filed our earnings press release yesterday, and it is available on the investor section of our website at enzymegroup.net. A replay of this call will also be available on our website until 5 p.m. Pacific on Friday, June 4, 2021. We want to remind any listeners that may be listening to a replay of this call that all statements are made as of today, April 30, 2021, and these statements have not been nor will be updated subsequent to today's call. Also, any forward-looking statements made today are based on management's current expectations, assumptions, and beliefs about our business and the environment in which we operate. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to materially differ from those expressed or implied on today's call. Listeners should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and are encouraged to review our SEC filings for a more complete discussion of factors that could impact our results. Except as required by federal securities laws, Ensign and its affiliates do not undertake to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements where changes arise as a result of new information, future events, changing circumstances, or for any other reason. In addition, the Ensign Group, Inc. is a holding company with no direct operating assets, employees, or revenues. Certain of our wholly owned independent subsidiaries, collectively referred to as a service center, provide accounting, payroll, human resources, information technology, legal, risk management, and other services to the other operating subsidiaries through contractual relationships with such subsidiaries. In addition, our wholly owned captive insurance subsidiary, which we refer to as a captive, provides certain claims made coverage for our operating subsidiaries for general and professional liability as well as for workers' compensation insurance liabilities. The words Ensign, Company, We, Our, and Us refer to the Ensign Group, Inc., and its consolidated subsidiaries. All of our operating subsidiaries, the Service Center and the Captive, are operated by separate, wholly owned, independent companies that have their own management employees and assets. References herein to the consolidated company and its assets and activities, as well as use of the terms We, Us, Our, and similar words used today, are not meant to imply, nor should it be construed as meaning that the Enzyme Group, Inc. has direct operating assets, employees, or revenue, or that any of the subsidiaries are operated by the Enzyme Group. Also, we supplement our GAAP reporting with non-GAAP metrics. When viewed together with our GAAP results, we believe that these measures can provide a more complete understanding of our business, but they should not be relied upon to the exclusion of GAAP reports. A gap to non-gap reconciliation is available in yesterday's press release and is available in our Form 10-Q. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Barry Port, our CEO. Barry?