UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 31, 2018
Healthcare Trust, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
| Maryland | 000-55201 | 38-3888962 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
405 Park Avenue, 4th Floor New York, New York 10022 |
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (212) 415-6500 |
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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Healthcare Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) held on May 31, 2018, the Company’s stockholders re-elected, by a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting, Lee M. Elman to the Company’s Board of Directors as a Class I director to serve until the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies.
The Company’s stockholders also ratified, by a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting, the appointment of KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018.
No other proposals were submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting.
At the Annual Meeting, there were present, in person or by proxy, stockholders holding an aggregate of 46,041,086 shares of the Company’s common stock, out of a total number of 91,251,142 shares of the Company’s common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, representing approximately 50.45% of the shares entitled to be voted. The full results of the matters voted on at the Annual Meeting are set forth below:
Proposal 1 – Election of Class I Directors
| Nominee | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
| Lee M. Elman | 37,634,353 | 2,259,582 | 2,990,271 | 3,156,880 |
Proposal 2 – Ratification of the Appointment of KPMG as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2018:
| Votes For | Votes Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |
| KPMG | 42,469,612 | 1,102,635 | 2,468,839 | * |
| * | No broker non-votes arose in connection with Proposal No. 2. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| HEALTHCARE TRUST, INC. | ||
| Date: May 31, 2018 | By: | /s/ W. Todd Jensen |
W. Todd Jensen Chief Executive Officer and President | ||