---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-050231"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MPT"
cik: "0001287865"
company_name: "MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T05:19:49.091628+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Medical Properties Trust appoints Emily W. Murphy to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Emily W. Murphy appointed as independent director effective Feb 17, 2022; Board expands to nine members.
- Murphy will be nominated for re-election at May 26, 2022 annual meeting.
- Compensation includes cash retainer and restricted stock vesting over three years, same as other non-employee directors.
- Murphy previously served as GSA Administrator, overseeing $75B in annual contracts and 11,000 federal employees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-050231
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MPT
- cik: 0001287865
- company_name: MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287865/000119312522050231/0001193125-22-050231-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287865/000119312522050231/d323610d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-050231
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-050231.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-050231.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Emily W. Murphy was appointed as Director at MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 17, 2022, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (the “Company”), upon unanimous recommendation of the Ethics, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, appointed Emily W. Murphy as a member of the Board effective as of the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287865/000119312522050231/0001193125-22-050231-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.