Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CYH) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call October 27, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Ross Comeaux – Vice President-Investors Relations

Tim Hingtgen – Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Hammons – President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Taji Phillips – Jefferies

Kevin Fischbeck – Bank of America

Jason Cassorla – Citi

Stephen Baxter – Wells Fargo

Josh Raskin – Nephron Research

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Community Health Systems Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Ross Comeaux, Vice President of Investors Relations. Please go ahead.

Ross Comeaux

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to Community Health Systems’ third quarter 2022 conference call. Joining me on today’s call are Tim Hingtgen, Chief Executive Officer; Kevin Hammons, President and Chief Financial Officer; and Dr. Lynn Simon, President of Clinical Operations and Chief Medical Officer.

Before I turn the call over to Tim, I’d like to remind everyone that this conference call may contain certain forward-looking statements, including all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, which are described in headings such as risk factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a consequence, actual results may differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statements in today’s discussion. We do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements.

Yesterday afternoon, we issued a press release with our financial statements and definitions and calculations of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. For those of you listening to the live broadcast of this conference call, a supplemental slide presentation has been posted to our website. We will refer to those slides during this earnings call. All calculations we will discuss also exclude loss or gain from early extinguishment of debt and impairment expense as well as gains or losses on the sale of businesses, expense from government and other legal settlements and related costs, expense related to employee termination benefits and other restructuring charges, and gain on sale of equity interest in Macon Healthcare, LLC.

With that said, I’d like to now turn the call over to Tim Hingtgen, Chief Executive Officer.