The Ensign Group, Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ensign Group Inc. 4th Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I will now hand the conference over to Mr. Kitch.

Thank you, and welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us today.

We filed our earnings press release yesterday, and it is available on the investor relations section of our website at nzinegroup.net. A replay of this call will also be available on our website until 5 p.m. Pacific on Friday, March 3, 2023. We want to remind any listeners that may be listening to a replay of this call that all statements are made as of today, February 3rd, 2023, 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, Enzyme 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 Enzyme 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 the insurance captive, provides certain claims-made coverage to our operating companies for general and professional liability, as well as for workers' compensation insurance liabilities. Enzyme also owns Standard Bear Healthcare REIT, Inc., which is a captive real estate investment trust that invests in healthcare properties and enters into lease agreements with certain independent subsidiaries of Enzyme, as well as third-party tenants that are unaffiliated with the Enzyme group. 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, Standard Bearer, Healthcare REIT, and the Insurance Captive are all 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 terms we may use today are not meant to apply, nor should it be construed as meaning that the Enzyme Group 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 GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation is available in yesterday's press release and is available in our Form 10-K. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Barry Port, our CEO. Barry?