Looking out longer term, we believe the stronger return of deferred care, the execution of our growth and strategic initiatives, our successful expense management, and continued focus on cash flow and capital structure management will allow the company to achieve its medium term financial goals, which includes targets for 16% plus EBITDA margin, positive annual free cash flow generation, and reducing our leverage below five times.

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We continue to effectively manage our non-labor related expenses. This would include supply costs as well as vendor related expenses, including insurance, utilities, rent, and a number of other fixed costs. Due to benefits from our margin improvement program efforts and focused expense management, we have held absolute dollars relatively consistent over the past six quarters.

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