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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Triad Hospitals, Inc. third quarter 2005 conference call on the outcome of the situation. The call today is registered. The discussion today can be said of forward-looking statements are statements that are not exclusively on historical or current facts. These forward-looking statements are based on plans and current expectations of the company and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks, impact on plans and expectations of current and future financial situation of the company .

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the highly competitive nature of health care, the efforts of various public and private payors reduce the reimbursement of costs to suppliers, perhaps to change programs continue to limit imbursements that the adoption of various Federal - and the public health law reform and changes in economic conditions, the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel and management of claims and complaints in connection with the obligations professional and other issues, and the market value of our shares, changing accounting standards, future acquisitions, joint venture of the evolution of our disinvestment can lead that new changes, the possibility of entering the provision of management services agreements on acceptable terms, availability and calculated on capital to finance the expansion of our business, changes in the business strategies or development plans, our ability to obtain sufficient levels Education and liability insurance, the potential impact of government advisers known and unknown, surveys and time depending on the repayment of support payments.

Accordingly, it and other risks and uncertainties, and plans for emergency measures and future financial condition and results may be substantially each of them in the forward-looking statements, or on behalf of the company. They should therefore not be unreasonable to these forward-looking statements of evaluating the information presented here or in the press release from the company. This conference call and webcast of the triad are the property of the hospital, Inc and the redistribution or distribution in print or on the conference call and webcast in any form without the express written permission of Triad Hospitals Inc. is strictly prohibited . To this date for opening comments and launches, I would like to again appeal to Mrs. Laura Baldwin, the Director of Finance and Investor Relations. Please. LAURA Baldwin, engaged & IR DIRECTOR: Thank you. Good morning. With me today are Denny Shelton, Chairman and CEO, Mike Parsons, COO, Steve Love, Acting Controller and Chief Financial Officer, Dan Moen, Executive Vice President of Development, Bill Huston, Senior VP of Operations Finance, Becky Hurley, General Counsel Pat Ball, Vice President Marketing and Public Affairs. This quarter, we reported a turnover of 1.2 billion euros, adjusted EBITDA of 171 million diluted EPS of $ 0.53 and diluted EPS from continuing operations of $ 0.63. The $ 0.63, which is in line with the consensus estimate of $ 0.63, includes 1.6 million after taxes or $ 0.02 per share a hurricane related costs, net of income insurance-estimated in the context of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. The difference between our $ 0.10 diluted EPS of $ 0.53 and diluted EPS from continuing operations of $ 0.63 was in the front line with regard to the central hospital of Arkansas Searcy, Arkansas.

We have a final agreement during the third quarter to sell the hospital. The loss includes a $ 0.10 after tax of 4.7 million the amount of amortization in connection with the sale. It is one of the hospitals, which we acquired in December Tenent in the years 2003 and we recognized that the market may not support two hospitals, so that we Central Arkansas sells to other hospitals in the city. Even number of visitors investment decreased by 1.4%. Without taking into account the impact of hurricanes, changes in criteria for admission to certain equipment and Alabama a gap in the Triad admission of an existing installation of a new triad-fi, we assume that the same establishment of static entries for us would have been slightly positive. And Mike will continue to discuss, in his opening remarks. For the year, we expect the same commitment to increase the number of visitors from 1% to 2% on a reported basis, our old manual 2% to 3%. Matches placement of patient turnover has remained strong growth admission 5.8% or 10.5% without the self-employed pay off 49 million euros. In the same investment income increased by 3.9% during the quarter and 8.3% without the self-employed pay off.