Mar 12, 2019 / 07:50PM GMT
Steven James Valiquette - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Research Analyst
Okay, great. We're going to go ahead and get started here with our next session here in the afternoon on day 1 of the Barclay's Global Healthcare Conference.
I'm Steven Valiquette, the healthcare services analyst here. Pleased to have the management team from HCA for this next session. This will be a fireside chat.
To my immediate right, we have Sam Hazen, the company's CEO; also have Bill Rutherford, CFO; and then probably everybody knows Mark Kimbrough, VP IR and maybe another roll as well, but -- so I'll kick off with the first question.
Questions and Answers:
Steven James Valiquette - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Research AnalystI think when we sat here a year ago, in the overall hospital industry and HCA was maybe coming off of maybe more a mixed 2017; the results [have] improved dramatically for 2018 and also into 2019 as well. Perhaps, let me just spend a couple of minutes talking about the most critical factors that weathered that