---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001360604-26-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HR"
cik: "0001360604"
company_name: "Healthcare Realty Trust Inc"
filed_at: "2026-02-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T01:05:52.598150+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Healthcare Realty Trust replaces BDO with Deloitte as independent auditor

## Summary
- Audit Committee replaced BDO USA with Deloitte & Touche effective February 19, 2026.
- No disagreements or reportable events between company and BDO during fiscal years 2024, 2025, and subsequent interim period.
- BDO's audit reports for years ended Dec 31, 2024 and 2025 were unqualified.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001360604-26-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HR
- cik: 0001360604
- company_name: Healthcare Realty Trust Inc
- filed_at: 2026-02-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1360604/000136060426000022/0001360604-26-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1360604/000136060426000022/hr-20260219.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001360604-26-000022
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001360604-26-000022.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001360604-26-000022.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Healthcare Realty Trust Inc dismissed BDO USA, P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BDO USA, P.C.
  - Successor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  source text: On February 19, 2026, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) of Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”), elected to replace BDO USA, P.C. ("BDO") with Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective as of February 19, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1360604/000136060426000022/0001360604-26-000022-index.htm

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