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Richard CloseAnalyst

All right, we'll go ahead and get started. I'm Richard Close, covering digital and tech-enabled health services here at Canaccord. Thank you for joining the conference. Excited to have AdaptHealth here. A lot going on in the business, to say the least. From the company, we have Suzanne Foster, CEO, Jason Clemens, CFO, also Luke Montgomery of IR here as well. Thank you for joining us. Obviously, a lot going on, so glad to have you here. You reported last week, so it's probably worth it just go over last week's results. What the main takeaway is there. Obviously, some volatility, so maybe what investors are missing or some of the points that came up would be great.

Suzanne FosterCEO

Great. Well, thanks for having us, and thanks for the opportunity. I think to understand Q2 results, I'd like to just take a minute to talk about, give some context to anyone who's new to the story around what we've set out a couple years to accomplish. I won't go in too much detail, but I think it's important to understand where we are in our journey. AdaptHealth, a couple years ago, I came into the role, and at the time, what we found was we were a company that was made up of over 150 acquisitions, small acquisitions that came together. Company was founded about a decade ago in a time when durable medical equipment and home medical equipment were going through one of the first consolidation times. The government had come in, putting a competitive bid.

Suzanne FosterCEO

The industry was made up of a lot of mom and pops. Adapt saw an opportunity back then to consolidate and bring these companies together because they figured size and scale mattered. You fast-forward to a couple years ago, the acquisition strategy had been very successful. We had become the number one in terms of size and scale, but a lot of the integration work, the workflows, the inner operations of the business, really we were still operating not as one big company, but as a bunch of little parts. We've been on this journey to integrate that and establish more standard work in a market where we saw that there was tremendous growth. We had set out 2 years ago to say the first thing we need to do is drive organic growth. We had stalled in our growth, really from a capacity perspective.

Suzanne FosterCEO

Without that standard work, we couldn't quite drive the capacity we needed. We also had, through that acquisition strategy, acquired a lot of technology or product portfolio that was sub-scale. We had to pay down debt. That was kind of the key mission we were on. Over the last 2 years, what we did is we immediately set out on a product portfolio rationalization, which has really came to a conclusion in Q2. In Q2, we announced the sale of our diabetes business, for reasons I can go into later. Our e-commerce business we spun out. We exited some of our supplies drop-ship business that is subject to future competitive bid. That followed a series of dispositions over the last 2 years, all with the intention of focusing the business on sleep, respiratory, and supporting home medical equipment.

Suzanne FosterCEO

That strategy is because we believe the sleep market is enjoying a very good time right now. Sleep awareness, all of the GLP, the wearables, it's driving awareness, and that market is growing, evidenced by our growth of 15% this last quarter. We're breaking records in terms of referrals coming in. Then respiratory, the same thing. That is a steady business growing with the population, so we have very strong clinical value propositions in those two segments. Q2, if I summarize, we had a lot of moving parts in terms of the portfolio, completing that portfolio rationalization I just talked about, but there were two isolated situations that we're working through.

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