Joanna Gajuk
BofA Securities, Research Division

I cover health care providers for Bank of America. And now it's my pleasure to host this session with Brookdale, the largest senior housing operator and owner in the U.S. And today, we have Nick Stengle, who's the CEO; and Dawn Kussow, who's the CFO. So thanks so much for being with us today. And I want to ask, are you ready to go into Q&A or you want to start with something?

Dawn Kussow
Executive VP & CFO

Q&A sounds great.

Nikolas Stengle
CEO & Director

We can jump right into it. I'll share a few words upfront. So first, thanks for having us. Very excited to be here, both for those who are listening and those in the room. Part of the story, and it's been showing up in our earnings call, it showed up in our Investor Day that we did at the end of January is a new era opening a new chapter for Brookdale. So a lot of folks know the Brookdale story. We've been around for many years, many decades, a lot of permutations, obviously, COVID being a big part of the senior living industry and for sure, Brookdale. But now part of it is me coming in as the new CEO, but truly, it's where we are as a company with a lot of things that burdened us in the past, whether it was acquisitions, whether it was leases we had, whether it was COVID, whether whatever it was, we -- that is becoming further and further in the past and part of the history of Brookdale as we open this new chapter. And I'm sure some of the