Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the U.S. Physical Therapy First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I'd now like to turn the call over to Chris Reading, Chairman and CEO. Please go ahead, sir.

Christopher Reading
CEO & Chairman

Welcome to our 2026 first quarter earnings call. With me on the line this morning include Jason Curtis, our Interim CFO, Senior Vice President, Finance and Accounting. I look forward to many of you getting to meet Jason for the first time around this earnings process and call, and subsequent investor calls and meetings.

He's done just a tremendous job jumping in really without a lot of warning and keeping all the plates spinning in his normal job and doing a terrific job, both with reporting and the Board and all the many things, including the redo of our credit agreement, very instrumental in all that. So, I look forward to you guys getting to know him a little bit.

Along with Jason, Eric Williams, our President and COO; Rick Binstein, our Executive Vice President and General Counsel; and Kate Venturina, our Vice President and Controller. Before we discuss the results for this past quarter, as usual, we need to cover a brief disclosure statement.