BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 29, 2017--
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (the “Company” or “MPT”) (NYSE: MPW)
today announced that it has completed the previously announced
acquisition of the real estate interests from IASIS Healthcare
Corporation of ten acute care hospitals and one behavioral health
facility with Steward Health Care System LLC (“Steward”) becoming the
facilities’ new operator. Additionally, MPT invested $100 million in
minority preferred interests of Steward.
About Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a Birmingham, Alabama based
self-advised real estate investment trust formed to capitalize on the
changing trends in healthcare delivery by acquiring and developing
net-leased healthcare facilities. MPT’s financing model allows hospitals
and other healthcare facilities to unlock the value of their underlying
real estate in order to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades,
staff additions and new construction. Facilities include acute care
hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care
hospitals, and other medical and surgical facilities. For more
information, please visit the Company’s website at www.medicalpropertiestrust.com.
The statements in this press release that are forward looking are
based on current expectations and actual results or future events may
differ materially. Words such as "expects," "believes," "anticipates,"
"intends," "will," "should” and variations of such words and similar
expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results of the
Company or future events to differ materially from those expressed in or
underlying such forward-looking statements, including without
limitation: the satisfaction of all conditions to, and the timely
closing (if at all) of pending transactions; net income per share for
2017 and 2018; Normalized FFO per share for 2017 and 2018; the amount of
acquisitions of healthcare real estate, if any; results from the
potential sales, if any, of assets; capital markets conditions;
estimated leverage metrics; the repayment of debt arrangements;
statements concerning the additional income to the Company as a result
of ownership interests in certain hospital operations and the timing of
such income; the payment of future dividends, if any; completion of
additional debt arrangements, and additional investments; national and
international economic, business, real estate and other market
conditions; the competitive environment in which the Company operates;
the execution of the Company's business plan; financing risks; the
Company's ability to maintain its status as a REIT for income tax
purposes; acquisition and development risks; potential environmental and
other liabilities; and other factors affecting the real estate industry
generally or healthcare real estate in particular. For further
discussion of the factors that could affect outcomes, please refer to
the "Risk factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2016 and as updated by the Company’s
subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings.
Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, the Company
undertakes no obligation to update the information in this press release.
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Source: Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
Tim Berryman, 205-969-3755
Director
– Investor Relations
tberryman@medicalpropertiestrust.com