Medical Properties Trust, Inc., based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a real estate investment trust that invests in healthcare facilities subject to NNN leases. Its transactions with private equity firms and for-profit operators of health care facilities via leaseback agreements, have enabled private equity and for-profit healthcare providers to buy failing hospitals, burden them with debt and high rent payments, leaving them failing more severely or bankrupt, even as the buyers make a profit. As of December 2024 the company owned 12 health care facilities in the United States. The company owns equity interest in several healthcare providers. Current and past investments have included Steward Health Care, Capella Healthcare, Priory Group, and Ernest Health. Between 2017 and 2025 seven hospital operators, including Steward, went bankrupt or failed after the real estate associated with the facilities was sold to MPT. Wikipedia