Medical Facilities Corporation Announces Approval of Normal Course Issuer Bid

TORONTO, Dec. 23, 2013 /CNW/ - Medical Facilities Corporation ("Medical Facilities" or the "Company") (TSX: DR), announced today that the Toronto Stock Exchange has approved its notice of intention to make a normal course issuer bid for up to $1,045,000 aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.90% convertible unsecured subordinated debentures due December 31, 2019 ("Debentures"), representing 2.5% of the $41,800,000 aggregate principal amount of Debentures issued and outstanding as of December 20, 2013. The Company may purchase the Debentures at prevailing market prices during the period from December 30, 2013 to December 29, 2014 through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange and other Canadian marketplaces. Purchases will be made at market prices in accordance with the rules and policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Subject to the Toronto Stock Exchange's block purchase exceptions, daily purchases will be limited to $7,984.25 aggregate principal amount of Debentures on any trading day, representing 25% of the average daily trading volume of $31,937 aggregate principal amount of Debentures for the past six months. All securities purchased by Medical Facilities under the normal course issuer bid will be cancelled. In the past 12 months, the Company has not repurchased any Debentures.

Medical Facilities believes that from time to time, the market price of its publicly-traded securities may not reflect their underlying value and that the purchase of its securities may represent an appropriate and desirable use of Company funds. Medical Facilities intends to fund the purchases out of available cash.

About Medical Facilities
Medical Facilities owns controlling interests in five specialty surgical hospitals located in South Dakota, Arkansas and Oklahoma, as well as an ambulatory surgery center in California. The specialty hospitals perform scheduled surgical, imaging, diagnostic and other procedures, including primary and urgent care, and derive their revenue from the fees charged for the use of their facilities. The ambulatory surgery center specializes in outpatient surgical procedures, with patient stays of less than 24 hours. Medical Facilities is structured so that a majority of its free cash flow from operations is distributed to the holders of its common shares in the form of dividends. For more information, please visit www.medicalfacilitiescorp.ca.

Caution concerning forward-looking statements
Statements made in this news release, other than those concerning historical financial information, may be forward-looking and therefore subject to various risks and uncertainties.  Some forward-looking statements may be identified by words like "may", "will", "anticipate", "estimate", "expect", "intend", or "continue" or the negative thereof or similar variations and include statements about the Company's normal course issuer bid. Certain material factors or assumptions are applied in making forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.  Factors that could cause results to vary include those identified in Medical Facilities' filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities such as legislative or regulatory developments, intensifying competition, technological change and general economic conditions.  All forward-looking statements presented herein should be considered in conjunction with such filings.  Medical Facilities does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements; such statements speak only as of the date made.

SOURCE: Medical Facilities Corporation

Michael Salter
Chief Financial Officer
Medical Facilities Corp.
[phone] or 1-877-402-7162

Renee Lam
Investor Relations
TMX Equicom
[phone] or 1-800-385-5451 ext.258
Email: [email protected]