Nov 28, 2023 / 01:50PM GMT
Unidentified Participant
We can start with the next presentation. Joining me is Kelvin Hammons, President and CFO of Community Health Systems.
Questions and Answers:
Unidentified ParticipantThank you, Kevin, as always, for joining us at the conference. We truly appreciate it. I thought it was going back and forth, I thought maybe, the best place to start is just a review of the recent results and comment on some of the four initiatives that you've got laid out for the call and to the market right now. Maybe just review those to level set for that for the audience.
Kevin Hammons - Community Health Systems, Inc. - President and CFO
Sure. Thank you, Larry, and thank you for hosting us. We really appreciate being here. Thank you, everyone, for joining today. Coming out of the third quarter, we did experience some of that normal seasonality that we historically had always seen in the third quarter, particularly around surgeries that were a little bit softer in the third quarter. But it was more just normal patient behavior, as people