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Facilities Accounted For As Business Combinations

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Minority Interest, Increase In Period

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The capitalized costs incurred during the period (excluded from amortization) to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire an unproved property, including costs of lease bonuses and options to purchase or lease properties, the portion of costs applicable to minerals when land including mineral rights is purchased in fee, brokers' fees, recording fees, legal costs, and other costs incurred in acquiring properties.

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Weighted average interest rate of debt outstanding.

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The parent entity's interest in net assets of the subsidiary, expressed as a percentage.

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Acquisitions and Dispositions - Investment Activity (Details) $ in Thousands						3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 27, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 21, 2017 USD ($)	Aug. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Aug. 15, 2017 USD ($)	Aug. 04, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) properties	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Jul. 21, 2017
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price						$ 190,183		$ 1,000,000
Facilities accounted for as asset acquisitions \| properties								3
Capitalized acquisition costs								$ 100
Facilities accounted for as business combinations \| properties								6
Acquisition expenses						2,184	$ 4,398	$ 12,831	$ 11,031
Clearview Cancer Institute
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price					$ 53,250
Northside Cherokee/Towne Lake MOB
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price				$ 37,127
HonorHealth Mesa MOB
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price				$ 4,800
2017 CHI Portfolio - Tranche 2 (5 MOBs)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price			$ 33,694
NCI Buyout - Great Falls Clinic
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price		$ 1,061
Additional interest acquired										3.20%
Noncontrolling interest ownership percentage										85.00%
Legends Park MOB & ASC
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price	$ 30,000
Loan Investments
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price						$ 30,251
Weighted average interest rate						8.00%		8.00%