National HealthCare Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates and manages long-term health care centers and associated assisted living centers, retirement centers, home health care programs in the United States. It primarily provides subacute skilled and intermediate nursing and rehabilitative care, senior living services, home health care services, management services, hospice services, accounting and financial services, and insurance services. The company also operates specialized care units in its healthcare centers, such as Alzheimer's disease care units, sub-acute nursing units, and various in-house pharmacies. As of December 31, 2008, it operated or managed 76 long-term health care centers with a total of approximately 9,772 licensed beds; 23 assisted living centers; and 7 independent living centers, as well as 32 homecare programs. National HealthCare Corporation was founded in 1971 and is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.