Cash payment made purchased addition of ownership interest.

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Equity method investment summarized financial information advances payable.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65885119&loc=d3e1392-128463

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Amount of interest income earned from interest bearing assets classified as other.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Condensed Combined Statement of Income for Limited Liabilities Accounted for under Equity Method (Parenthetical) (Detail) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Schedule Of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Advances payable to us	$ 21,855,000		$ 21,855,000		$ 22,489,000
Arlington Medical Properties
Schedule Of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Interest income earned on various advances made to LLCs	291,000	$ 0	880,000	$ 0
Advances payable to us	$ 21,800,000		$ 21,800,000
Percentage of minority ownership purchased from third-party members	10.00%		10.00%
Cash payment made purchased addition of ownership interest			85.00%		75.00%