SCOTTSDALE, AZ, January 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) announced today that it has named Dan Klein to the newly created position of Executive Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Klein will report directly to the Company's Chairman and CEO, Scott D. Peters. In this role, Dan will help drive HTA's investment activities with a primary responsibility for growing HTA's strategic relationships with health systems, academic medical centers, universities with a healthcare focus, physicians and regional developers.

'We are pleased to welcome Dan Klein to HTA's executive team,' said Scott D. Peters, Chairman and CEO of Healthcare Trust of America. 'Dan has a significant and proven track record in the medical office sector. The skills, relationships, and in-depth knowledge that Dan has developed during his years in the real estate sector make him a great fit to help continue to expand HTA's dedicated MOB platform focused on key markets and key critical real estate.'

Mr. Klein has over 25 years of experience in real estate, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Welltower Inc.'s medical office platform. During his tenure at Welltower, Mr. Klein led the firm's medical facilities investment strategy, business development, acquisition and development origination, and targeted advisor outreach. He received a Bachelor's of Science from The University of Virginia and a J.D. from The University of Toledo College of Law.

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and operates medical office buildings. Over the last nine years since its formation in 2006, the company has invested $3.6 billion in medical office buildings and other healthcare assets comprising 15.3 million square feet across 28 states. HTA has a consistent track record of generating stockholder returns and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in June of 2012.

HTA invests in key markets with above average growth and healthcare infrastructure that is capable of servicing long-term patient demand. Within each key market, HTA focuses on acquiring medical office buildings on health system campuses, in community-core locations, or near university medical centers. The portfolio consists of medical office buildings that are core-critical, a key part of the integrated delivery of healthcare, and that continue to complement the company's institutional asset management and leasing platform. HTA's business strategy is defined by establishing critical mass within key markets which allows HTA's asset management and in-house leasing platform to drive earnings growth, capitalize on synergies and maximize expense efficiencies, and build lasting tenant relationships which leads to retention, rent growth and long-term value creation across the portfolio.

More information about HTA can be found on the company's website at www.htareit.com

Forward-Looking Language

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, plans, estimates, assumptions and beliefs, including expectations, plans, estimates, assumptions and beliefs about HTA, stockholder value and earnings growth.

The forward-looking statements included in this press release are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Assumptions relating to the foregoing involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond HTA's control. Although HTA believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, HTA's actual results and performance could differ materially and in adverse ways from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Factors which could have a material adverse effect on HTA's operations and future prospects include, but are not limited to:

  • changes in economic conditions affecting the healthcare property sector, the commercial real estate market and the credit market;
  • competition for acquisition of medical office buildings and other facilities that serve the healthcare industry;
  • economic fluctuations in certain states in which HTA's property investments are geographically concentrated;
  • retention of HTA's senior management team;
  • financial stability and solvency of HTA's tenants;
  • supply and demand for operating properties in the market areas in which HTA operates;
  • HTA's ability to acquire real properties, and to successfully operate those properties once acquired;
  • changes in property taxes;
  • legislative and regulatory changes, including changes to laws governing the taxation of REITs and changes to laws governing the healthcare industry;
  • fluctuations in reimbursements from third party payors such as Medicare and Medicaid;
  • changes in interest rates;
  • the availability of capital and financing;
  • restrictive covenants in HTA's credit facilities;
  • changes in HTA's credit ratings;
  • HTA's ability to remain qualified as a REIT;
  • changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, policies and guidelines applicable to REITs;
  • delays in liquidating defaulted mortgage loan investors; and
  • the risk factors set forth in HTA's 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 and in HTA's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, HTA undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect the events or circumstances arising after the date as of which they are made. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements included in this press release or that may be made elsewhere from time to time by, or on behalf of, HTA.

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