Operator
Operator
Please standby. We're about to begin. Good day everyone and welcome to the Second 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 Chairman and CEO. Mr. Fetter, please go ahead, sir. Trevor Fetter - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Great. Thank you, operator, and good morning everyone. As you saw in the press release we issued yesterday, we delivered another strong quarter with improvements in our top and bottom line results. Slide two in our presentation provides an overview of the financial highlights. We achieved adjusted EBITDA of $568 million which is a 23% increase over the prior year. We also completed our transactions with United Surgical Partners International and Aspen Healthcare in mid June, which added $16 million of EBITDA in the quarter. Even after excluding that additional benefit, adjusted EBITDA was slightly above the top end of our guidance. Inpatient volumes were relatively strong on a historical basis with growth of 1.7% over the second quarter of last year making it one of our top ten volume quarters over the past decade. I'll note this is the first time we've faced a tougher comparison since we started reporting very strong volume growth in the second quarter of last year. Before I share details on the strategic accomplishments for the quarter, I'd like to comment briefly on the new financial profile of Tenet and how you should think about our company going forward. With…