Prix Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW)

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and currently employs 118 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2005-07-08. The firm conducts all of its operations through its subsidiary, MPT Operating Partnership, L.P. The company acquires and develops healthcare facilities and leases the facilities to healthcare operating companies under long-term net leases. The company also makes mortgage loans to healthcare operators collateralized by their real estate assets. The company selectively makes loans to certain of its operators through its taxable REIT subsidiaries (TRS). The company has healthcare investments in the United States, Europe and South America. The firm owns hospital real estate with approximately 396 facilities and approximately 39,000 licensed beds in nine countries and across three continents. Its financing model facilitates acquisitions and recapitalizations and allows operators of hospitals to unlock the value of their real estate assets to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades and other investments in operations.