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Represents the percentage of cumulative preferred return rate.

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Noncontrolling Interest, Decrease from Redemptions or Purchase of Interests, Number of Shares

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Represents the percentage of internal rate of return on investment.

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Represents the minimum period in which Series A Preferred Units will be redeemable.

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Number of share ratio exchanged in redemption, in addition to the cash received and preferred return percentage, as if currently redeemable, of redeemable noncontrolling interest for preferred shares, units or ownership interests classified as temporary equity.

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Redemption value per share, as if currently redeemable, of redeemable noncontrolling interest for preferred shares, units or ownership interests classified as temporary equity.

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Ratio applied to the conversion of operating partnership units into common shares.

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Value of equity interests (such as common shares, preferred shares, or partnership interest) issued or issuable to acquire the entity.

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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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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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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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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination.

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Fair value as of the balance sheet date of the embedded derivative or group of embedded derivatives classified as a liability.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Decrease in noncontrolling interest (for example, but not limited to, redeeming or purchasing the interests of noncontrolling shareholders, issuance of shares (interests) by the non-wholly owned subsidiary to the parent entity for other than cash, and a buyback of shares (interest) by the non-wholly owned subsidiary from the noncontrolling interests).

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The number of businesses acquired by the entity during the period.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Redemption value, as if currently redeemable, of redeemable noncontrolling interest classified as temporary equity and the election has been made to accrete changes in redemption value to the earliest redemption date.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Noncontrolling Interests (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands					12 Months Ended
	Jan. 12, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 17, 2015 USD ($) shares	Mar. 01, 2015 USD ($)	Feb. 05, 2015 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) properties shares	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($) properties shares	Apr. 01, 2016 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Value of units issued for funding purchase price					$ 0	$ 20,980
Acquisition price					$ 1,414,179	$ 1,285,185
Percentage of interest held					97.10%	97.50%
Conversion ratio					1
Embedded derivative	$ 5,600				$ 0	$ 5,571
Aggregate purchase price					1,370,000	1,270,000
Equity investment			$ 5,000
Internal rate of return			15.00%
Redeemable noncontrolling interest, equity, redemption value					1,100
Operating Partnership
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition price					$ 78,600	$ 8,500
Units \| Operating Partnership
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of real estate properties acquired \| properties					1	1
Number of units issued for funding purchase price (in shares) \| shares					2,247,817	174,085
Value of units issued for funding purchase price					$ 44,300	$ 2,900
Noncontrolling interest, decrease from redemptions or purchase of interests					$ 700	$ 4,000
Series A Preferred units
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cumulative preferred return				5.00%
Shares issued upon conversion				1
Redemption value per share \| $ / shares				$ 200
Period of time before redeemable				1 year
Joint venture, Operating Partnership and Medical Center of New Albany I, LLC [Member] \| Units \| Operating Partnership
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of shares (in shares) \| shares					38,641	217,549
Park Nicollet Clinic
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of units issued for funding purchase price (in shares) \| shares				44,685
Value of preferred units				$ 9,700
Internal rate of return			15.00%
Park Nicollet Clinic \| Units
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, equity interest redeemed, value assigned							$ 9,800
Embedded derivative							$ 2,700
HonorHealth - Scottsdale MOB
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of units issued for funding purchase price (in shares) \| shares		91,236
Value of preferred units		$ 19,700
Aggregate purchase price	$ 20,000