Chemed Corporation at Jefferies Healthcare Services and Technology Conference Transcript
Good morning. And thank you again for joining us for the 2026 Jefferies Healthcare Services Conference. I'm Brian Tanquilut, healthcare services analyst here at Jefferies.
So the next company we have is Chemed. They're the largest operator of hospice services in the U. S. and also they own Roto-Rooter. So with us this morning are Kevin McNamara, company CEO, and Joel Wherley, CEO of VITAS, the hospice business.
So Kevin, Joel, thank you so much for joining us.
Questions & Answers
I'll start, Kevin, maybe if you can start with the State of the Union, how the second quarter played out and how you're thinking about the back half of the year.
Sure. Let me start by saying that the, second quarter, we increased guidance. It was pretty much as we expect, things happened as we expected, only a little bit better.
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