Subsequent Events	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events	10. Subsequent Events Capella Transaction On March 21, 2016, we entered into definitive agreements with RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Inc. (“RegionalCare”), an affiliate of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “Apollo”), under which our investment in the operations of Capella Healthcare, Inc. (“Capella”) would be merged with and into RegionalCare. On April 29, 2016, this transaction closed and funded, effective April 30, 2016. As part of the transaction, we received net proceeds of approximately $550 million including approximately $492 million for our equity investment and loans made as part of the Capella transaction that closed on August 31, 2015. In addition, we received $210 million in prepayment of two mortgage loans for hospitals in Russellville, Arkansas, and Lawton, Oklahoma, that we made to subsidiaries of Capella in connection with the Capella transaction on August 31, 2015. We have made a new $93 million loan for a hospital property in Olympia, Washington, that is expected to be converted to a sale and leaseback arrangement upon regulatory approval. Additionally, we and an Apollo affiliate have invested $50 million each in unsecured senior notes issued by RegionalCare. The net proceeds from this transaction represent the recoverability of our investment in full; therefore, no gain or loss will be recorded in the 2016 second quarter, except for transaction costs incurred, which we estimate to be approximately $5 to $8 million. We used proceeds from this transaction to further pay down our revolving credit facility. MPT will maintain its ownership of five Capella hospitals in Hot Springs, Arkansas; Camden, South Carolina; Hartsville, South Carolina; Muskogee, Oklahoma; and McMinnville, Oregon. Pursuant to the transaction described above, the underlying leases, one of which is a master lease covering all but one property, have been amended for various things, including a slight shortening of the initial fixed lease term, increase in the security deposit, and the elimination of the lessees’ purchase option provisions. Other Activity Subseqent to April 30, 2016, we acquired an acute hospital in Newark, New Jersey for an aggregate purchase price of $63 million leased to Prime pursuant to a fifth master lease, which has a 15-year term with three five-year extension options, plus consumer price-indexed increases, limited to a 2% floor. Furthermore, we committed to advance an additional $30 million to Prime over a three-year period to be used solely for capital additions to the real estate; any such additions will be added to the basis upon which the lessee will pay us rents.

10. Subsequent Events

Capella Transaction

On March 21, 2016, we entered into definitive agreements with RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Inc. (“RegionalCare”), an affiliate of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “Apollo”), under which our investment in the operations of Capella Healthcare, Inc. (“Capella”) would be merged with and into RegionalCare.

On April 29, 2016, this transaction closed and funded, effective April 30, 2016. As part of the transaction, we received net proceeds of approximately $550 million including approximately $492 million for our equity investment and loans made as part of the Capella transaction that closed on August 31, 2015. In addition, we received $210 million in prepayment of two mortgage loans for hospitals in Russellville, Arkansas, and Lawton, Oklahoma, that we made to subsidiaries of Capella in connection with the Capella transaction on August 31, 2015. We have made a new $93 million loan for a hospital property in Olympia, Washington, that is expected to be converted to a sale and leaseback arrangement upon regulatory approval. Additionally, we and an Apollo affiliate have invested $50 million each in unsecured senior notes issued by RegionalCare. The net proceeds from this transaction represent the recoverability of our investment in full; therefore, no gain or loss will be recorded in the 2016 second quarter, except for transaction costs incurred, which we estimate to be approximately $5 to $8 million. We used proceeds from this transaction to further pay down our revolving credit facility.

MPT will maintain its ownership of five Capella hospitals in Hot Springs, Arkansas; Camden, South Carolina; Hartsville, South Carolina; Muskogee, Oklahoma; and McMinnville, Oregon. Pursuant to the transaction described above, the underlying leases, one of which is a master lease covering all but one property, have been amended for various things, including a slight shortening of the initial fixed lease term, increase in the security deposit, and the elimination of the lessees’ purchase option provisions.

Other Activity

Subseqent to April 30, 2016, we acquired an acute hospital in Newark, New Jersey for an aggregate purchase price of $63 million leased to Prime pursuant to a fifth master lease, which has a 15-year term with three five-year extension options, plus consumer price-indexed increases, limited to a 2% floor. Furthermore, we committed to advance an additional $30 million to Prime over a three-year period to be used solely for capital additions to the real estate; any such additions will be added to the basis upon which the lessee will pay us rents.