NHC Announces Common Dividend and Preferred Dividend

For release: November 5, 2013
Contact: Gerald Coggin, Senior 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 December 31, 2013 and payable on March 3, 2014.

The Company will also pay a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per preferred share to shareholders of record on December 16, 2013 and payable on January 15, 2014.

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