NHC to Pay Common and Preferred Dividends

Posted by Gerald Coggin on August 1, 2012

For release: August 1, 2012
Contact: Gerald Coggin, Sr. VP of Corporate Relations
Phone: (615) 890-2020

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – National HealthCare Corporation (NYSE MKT: NHC, NHC.PRA), one of the nation’s oldest long-term health care companies, announced today that it will pay a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per common share to shareholders of record on October 1, 2012 and payable on November 30, 2012 and a dividend of 20 cents per preferred share to shareholders of record on September 17, 2012 and payable on October 15, 2012.