Medical Properties Trust, Inc., also called Medical Properties Trust, is a self-advised real estate investment trust, which engages in investing and owning net-leased healthcare facilities across the United States of America and selective foreign countries. It focuses on funding hospitals and other facilities where patients must be admitted by doctors. Read More The company was founded by Edward K. Aldag Jr., R. Steven Hamner, Emmett E McLean, and William G. McKenzie on August 27, 2003 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.