Kevin Fischbeck
BofA Securities, Research Division

[Audio Gap] conversation with Tenet Healthcare. Presenting today, we have Saum Sutaria, who's the Chairman and CEO; Sun Park, who's the CFO; and Will McDowell from Investor Relations. If you -- I don't know, do you want to start off with some exciting forward-looking statements?

William McDowell
Vice President of Investor Relations

Sure. Thanks, Kevin, and thanks, everyone, for joining us today. In the course of our conversation today, we may be making some forward-looking statements. In the context of those statements, I'd suggest you refer back to our cautionary statement, included in our most recent earnings release as well as other SEC filings. Back to you, Kevin.

Kevin Fischbeck
BofA Securities, Research Division

All right. Thank you. Yes. So I guess maybe if we're going to start off, I think there's a lot of focus on utilization and volumes. And kind of given all the disruption that kind of happened in Q1 from weak flu, from weather in certain markets, can you talk a little bit about how you're seeing kind of core demand in your markets today?

Saumya Sutaria
Chairman & CEO

Yes. No, that's a good place to start. So first of all, I mean, for us, I think this was a pretty straightforward quarter. The volume from the respiratory season in the first part of the quarter in January was obviously lower than what we saw prior year. But sequentially, every month got better. So if January was below expectations, March was above expectations, and the trend line improved nicely.