And any commentary just around the economic implications in your markets would be helpful as well.So normally, we don't comment on specific markets when it's all said and done. And what types of patients are you seeing early?So Josh, this is Wayne. But for the most part, again, no one has a crystal ball here. Tim?Thank you, Lynn.
And in some cases, we've changed the way we interact with our patients, including focused work to accelerate telehealth capabilities across our nearly 3,000 physician- and mid-level providers. Not broad differences, let me answer it that way. Dialing back and forth, depending on what's happening in each market from demand, but also from a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, should that happen, if we don't reopen up these communities safely. For COVID-19, although quite different than what we have managed in the past due to the duration and the national scope of this pandemic, we're able to utilize our same incident command infrastructure, which enabled us to fully leverage the depth of our company's resources and create a high level of coordination across the organization. As a percent of our consolidated net operating revenues, our salaries and benefits decreased 20 basis points, supplies decreased 150 basis points and other operating expenses decreased 50 basis points. Contents: Prepared Remarks; Questions and Answers; Call … Now we expanded our Cares Fund to help those affected by COVID-19 crisis. We're going to take care of you. Some of the changes we've implemented over the past two months will make us stronger. Finally, we have worked to protect our business and competitive position.Incredible efforts have been made to ensure CHS will emerge from the public health crisis with every possible advantage. Job cuts are continuing at Michigan Medicine, the Ann Arbor-based health system affiliated with the University of Michigan, as well. Returns as of 07/31/2020. Our capex for the first quarter of 2020 was $99 million or 3.3% of net revenue compared to $120 million $121 million or 3.6% of net revenue in the prior year. And if it's if you can grow, what are kind of the offsets to volume pressure and payer mix?One thing I'd just point to is I think maybe a little bit different than where the company was positioned, say, back in 2008 coming out of that recession is with the divestiture program, our portfolio is much stronger. The American Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of hospitals in the United States.
It sounds like none of those have closed yet. So I just want to thank everyone for that. business Health Care. Let me just add to that a little bit. That's a real connection to patient. What goes first? This enables a coordinated return to elective business and maintains compliance with the federal, state and local requirements. This is Tim. And I think those dollar amounts are on slide 14 in our deck. We've also really grown our ambulatory access point footprint as more care migrates to the outpatient side of things. And the focus on organizational enhancements across our supply chain provided exceptional advantages during a period when supplies were sometimes difficult to source.