On April 3, 2016, Mr. L. Glenn Orr, Jr., age 75, retired as a member of the board of directors of Medical Properties Trust Inc., and the number of directors on the Board decreased to seven members. Mr. Orr had been serving on two standing committees of the Board, the Compensation Committee and the Investments Committee, and the Board has determined to fill Mr. Orr's prior position on the Compensation Committee with director D. Paul Sparks, age 53, and not to replace Mr. Orr on the Investments Committee.