NHC Announces a 6.7% Increase in Common Dividend and Announces Preferred Dividend

For release: May 8, 2013
Contact: Gerald Coggin, Sr. VP of Corporate Relations
Phone: (615) 890-2020

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE MKT: NHC, NHC.PRA), the nation’s oldest publicly traded long-term health care company, announced today that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 32 cents per common share to shareholders of record on June 28, 2013 and payable on August 30, 2013. This represents a 6.7% increase over last quarter’s regular common dividend.

The Company will also pay a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per preferred share to shareholders of record on June 17, 2013 and payable on July 15, 2013.

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