Related Party Transactions	6 Months Ended
Related Party Transactions	Jun. 30, 2011
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS	NOTE 14 — RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Upon consummation of the Atria Senior Living acquisition, we entered into long-term management agreements with Atria to operate the acquired assets. Atria is owned by private equity funds managed by Lazard Real Estate Partners LLC (“LREP”). Effective May 13, 2011, LREP Chief Executive Officer and Managing Principal and Atria Chairman Matthew J. Lustig was appointed to our Board of Directors. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, we paid Atria $4.3 million in management fees related to the Atria Senior Living properties. See “Note 4—Acquisitions of Real Estate Property.” From time to time, we may engage Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate firm, to act as a leasing agent with respect to certain of our MOBs. Cushman & Wakefield President and Chief Executive Officer Glenn J. Rufrano has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2010. We believe the brokers’ fees we pay to Cushman & Wakefield in connection with the provision of these services are customary and represent market rates. Total fees we paid to Cushman & Wakefield in 2010 and the first six months of 2011 were de minimis. Effective upon consummation of the NHP acquisition, Richard I. Gilchrist, a former NHP director, was appointed to our Board of Directors. Mr. Gilchrist currently serves as Senior Advisor to The Irvine Company, and from 2006 until July 2011, he served as President of The Irvine Company’s Investment Properties Group, from whom NHP leased its corporate headquarters prior to the acquisition. In 2010, NHP paid approximately $536,000 in rent to The Irvine Company. Nationwide Health Properties, LLC, our wholly owned subsidiary, continues to rent office space in the building owned by The Irvine Company.

This element may be used for the entire related party transactions disclosure as a single block of text. Disclosure may include: the nature of the relationship(s), a description of the transactions, the amount of the transactions, the effects of any change in the method of establishing the terms of the transaction from the previous period, stated interest rate, expiration date, terms and manner of settlement per the agreement with the related party, and amounts due to or from related parties. If the entity and one or more other entities are under common ownership or management control and this control affects the operating results or financial position, disclosure includes the nature of the control relationship even if there are no transactions between the entities. Disclosure may also include the aggregate amount of current and deferred tax expense for each statement of earnings presented where the entity is a member of a group that files a consolidated tax return, the amount of any tax related balances due to or from affiliates as of the date of each statement of financial position presented, the principal provisions of the method by which the consolidated amount of current and deferred tax expense is allocated to the members of the group and the nature and effect of any changes in that method. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates.

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