May 11, 2021 / 08:15PM GMT
Joanna Sylvia Gajuk - BofA Securities, Research Division - VP
All right, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us here at Bank of America Healthcare Conference.
So it's my pleasure now to host this session with Amedisys. They are one of the largest home health and hospice provider in the U.S. And today with us, we have a full team: Paul Kusserow, Chairman and CEO; Chris Gerard, President and COO; Scott Ginn, CFO; and also Nick Muscato here, Senior VP of Finance. So we have a full team.
So I'll start with some questions, [but a comment] to the audience is that please feel free to submit questions. There is a "ask question" function here under the webcast, so please send the questions my way, and I'll -- happy to ask them to the team.
Questions and Answers:
Joanna Sylvia Gajuk - BofA Securities, Research Division - VPSo I'll start with, if I may -- kind of a topical question that I'll be asking all the companies throughout this conference is how do you think about the timing and pace of the volume improvement, right, this year and