Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Business Overview Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”) is a real estate investment trust that integrates owning, managing, financing and developing income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States. The Company had investments of approximately $3.2 billion in 197 real estate properties and mortgages as of June 30, 2015. The Company’s 196 owned real estate properties are located in 30 states and total approximately 14.1 million square feet. The Company provided property management services to approximately 9.5 million square feet nationwide. Basis of Presentation The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. They do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. However, except as disclosed herein, management believes there has been no material change in the information disclosed in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. This interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in this report and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. Management believes that all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. In addition, the interim financial information does not necessarily represent or indicate what the operating results will be for the year ending December 31, 2015 for many reasons including, but not limited to, acquisitions, dispositions, capital financing transactions, changes in interest rates and the effects of other trends, risks and uncertainties. Use of Estimates in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements Preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. Actual results may differ from those estimates. Fair Value of Derivative Financial Instruments Derivative financial instruments are recorded at fair value on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as other assets or other liabilities. The valuation of derivative instruments requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the fair value of the instruments. Fair values of derivatives are estimated by pricing models that consider the forward yield curves and discount rates. The fair value of the Company's forward starting interest rate swap contracts are estimated by pricing models that consider foreign trade rates and discount rates. Such amounts and the recognition of such amounts are subject to significant estimates that may change in the future. See Note 4 for additional information. New Accounting Pronouncements Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-03 In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2015-03, "Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs." This standard requires debt issuance costs to be reported in the balance sheet as a direct reduction from the face amount of the note in which it is directly related. This standard is effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2016 with early adoption permitted, on a retrospective basis, wherein the balance sheet of each individual period presented should be adjusted to reflect the period-specific effects of applying the new guidance. Upon transition, the Company is required to comply with the applicable disclosures for a change in an accounting principle. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position or cash flows. Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-08 In April 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-08, “Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity.” This standard changes the requirements for reporting discontinued operations by raising the threshold for a disposal to qualify as a discontinued operation and requires new disclosures of both discontinued operations, and certain other disposals that do not meet the definition of a discontinued operation. The standard limits discontinued operations reporting to disposals of components of an entity that represent strategic shifts that have (or will have) a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results. This standard is effective for the Company on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning on January 1, 2015 and interim periods within that year. Early adoption was permitted but only for disposals (or classifications as held for sale) that had not been reported in financial statements previously issued. The Company adopted this standard on the effective date of January 1, 2015 and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position or cash flows, but it could have a material impact on the presentation of the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09 In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers", a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard that supersedes most existing revenue recognition guidance, including sales of real estate. This standard's core principle is that a company will recognize revenue when it transfers goods or services to customers in amounts that reflect the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods and services. However, leasing contracts, representing the major source of the Company's revenues, are not within the scope of the new standard and will continue to be accounted for under existing standards. This new standard is effective for the Company for annual and interim periods beginning on January 1, 2017 with early adoption prohibited. However, the FASB approved the deferral of the effective date for one year. The Company has not yet determined the effects on the Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes resulting from the adoption of this new standard. Reclassifications Certain amounts in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets have been reclassified for the current period presentation of assets held for sale and related liabilities.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Business Overview

Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”) is a real estate investment trust that integrates owning, managing, financing and developing income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States. The Company had investments of approximately $3.2 billion in 197 real estate properties and mortgages as of June 30, 2015. The Company’s 196 owned real estate properties are located in 30 states and total approximately 14.1 million square feet. The Company provided property management services to approximately 9.5 million square feet nationwide.

Basis of Presentation

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. They do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. However, except as disclosed herein, management believes there has been no material change in the information disclosed in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

This interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in this report and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014. Management believes that all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. In addition, the interim financial information does not necessarily represent or indicate what the operating results will be for the year ending December 31, 2015 for many reasons including, but not limited to, acquisitions, dispositions, capital financing transactions, changes in interest rates and the effects of other trends, risks and uncertainties.

Use of Estimates in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. Actual results may differ from those estimates.

Fair Value of Derivative Financial Instruments

Derivative financial instruments are recorded at fair value on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as other assets or other liabilities. The valuation of derivative instruments requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the fair value of the instruments. Fair values of derivatives are estimated by pricing models that consider the forward yield curves and discount rates. The fair value of the Company's forward starting interest rate swap contracts are estimated by pricing models that consider foreign trade rates and discount rates. Such amounts and the recognition of such amounts are subject to significant estimates that may change in the future. See Note 4 for additional information.

New Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-03

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2015-03, "Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs." This standard requires debt issuance costs to be reported in the balance sheet as a direct reduction from the face amount of the note in which it is directly related.

This standard is effective for the Company beginning on January 1, 2016 with early adoption permitted, on a retrospective basis, wherein the balance sheet of each individual period presented should be adjusted to reflect the period-specific effects of applying the new guidance. Upon transition, the Company is required to comply with the applicable disclosures for a change in an accounting principle. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position or cash flows.

Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-08

In April 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-08, “Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity.” This standard changes the requirements for reporting discontinued operations by raising the threshold for a disposal to qualify as a discontinued operation and requires new disclosures of both discontinued operations, and certain other disposals that do not meet the definition of a discontinued operation. The standard limits discontinued operations reporting to disposals of components of an entity that represent strategic shifts that have (or will have) a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results.

This standard is effective for the Company on a prospective basis for annual periods beginning on January 1, 2015 and interim periods within that year. Early adoption was permitted but only for disposals (or classifications as held for sale) that had not been reported in financial statements previously issued. The Company adopted this standard on the effective date of January 1, 2015 and does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial position or cash flows, but it could have a material impact on the presentation of the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers", a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard that supersedes most existing revenue recognition guidance, including sales of real estate. This standard's core principle is that a company will recognize revenue when it transfers goods or services to customers in amounts that reflect the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods and services. However, leasing contracts, representing the major source of the Company's revenues, are not within the scope of the new standard and will continue to be accounted for under existing standards.

This new standard is effective for the Company for annual and interim periods beginning on January 1, 2017 with early adoption prohibited. However, the FASB approved the deferral of the effective date for one year. The Company has not yet determined the effects on the Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes resulting from the adoption of this new standard.

Reclassifications

Certain amounts in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets have been reclassified for the current period presentation of assets held for sale and related liabilities.