Sep 08, 2023 / 12:00PM GMT
Stephen C. Baxter - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division - Senior Equity Analyst
Hi, everyone, I'm Steve Baxter, the health care services analyst here at Wells Fargo. We're very pleased to have Universal Health Services, a leading provider of acute and behavioral services. From the company, we have Steve Filton, CFO. Thank you very much for being here.
Steve G. Filton - Universal Health Services, Inc. - Executive VP, CFO & Secretary
Thank you. Good morning.
Questions and Answers:
Stephen C. Baxter - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division - Senior Equity AnalystSo maybe we'll start on the acute side of the business. The first half, you had historically strong volumes. Obviously, we're in a period where we're recovering from various COVID spikes that we saw in the first half of 2022. When you think about where we are from a volume recovery standpoint, what's the story in the acute side of the business? When do we think about returning this thing closer to pre-pandemic levels of growth?