Medical Facilities Corporation announces January Dividend

TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2012, 2012 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES/ Medical Facilities Corporation (TSX: DR) ("Medical Facilities" or the "Company") announced today that a cash dividend payment of Cdn$0.0917 per Common Share will be payable on February 15, 2012 to holders of record of Common Shares at the close of business on January 31, 2012. The ex-dividend date for this distribution will be January 27, 2012. Medical Facilities designates this dividend to be an "eligible dividend" pursuant to subsection 89(14) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and its equivalent in any provinces of Canada. About Medical Facilities Medical Facilities owns controlling interests in four specialty surgical hospitals, located in South Dakota and Oklahoma, as well as an ambulatory surgery center in California. The specialty hospitals perform scheduled surgical, imaging and diagnostic procedures, 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 pays out a majority of its free cash flows from operations to holders of its Common Shares in the form of a monthly dividend. 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. 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. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2012/20/c5689.html SOURCE: Medical Facilities Corporation Michael Salter Chief Financial Officer Medical Facilities Corp. [phone] or 1-877-402-7162 Salvador Diaz Investor Relations TMX Equicom [phone] or 1-800-385-5451 ext. 242 [e-mail]