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Stephen F. Flatt (CEO & Inside Director) was appointed to the Board and named Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2017. He joined NHC in June 2005 as Senior Vice President-Development. On January 1, 2009, Mr. Flatt became NHC's President. He served as the President of Lipscomb University from 1997 through June 2005 and, prior to that, President of Ezell Harding Christian School in Nashville and Vice President of Financial Affairs and Institutional Planning at Lipscomb. Mr. Flatt recently served as Co-Chair of the Council for Post Acute Care (CPAC), as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), and the Board of Directors of the Nashville Health Care Council. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Community Foundation of Rutherford County, and the Tennessee Business Leadership Council (TBLC), and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Health Care Council. In 2013, he was a member of the Council's inaugural Health Care Fellows Program led by former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Also in 2013 he was named one of Middle Tennessee's Health-Care Heroes by the Nashville Business Journal. He received his B.A. degree from David Lipscomb College and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.

Brian F. Kidd (Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer) joined the Company in 2008. On May 31, 2023, Mr. Kidd's title was changed from Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer to the title of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kidd was the Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer from January 1, 2017 until May 31, 2023. Prior to 2017, Mr. Kidd also served as Vice President of Financial Reporting and Director of Financial Reporting prior to the above roles. His responsibilities at NHC include overseeing all aspects of the Company's overall financial management. These duties include all aspects of internal and external financial reporting, treasury and cash management operations, healthcare reimbursement compliance, income and indirect tax compliance, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for NHC. He is active in the community and currently serves on the boards of the Middle Tennessee State University Foundation Board of Trustees, Middle Tennessee State University Accounting Advisory Board, Murfreesboro Water Resources Board, First National Bank of Middle Tennessee, Providence Christian Academy Board of Trustees, and the One Hundred Club of Rutherford County, Inc. Prior to joining NHC, Mr. Kidd was in public accounting for 10 years. Mr. Kidd is a Certified Public Accountant and received his B.S. in Accounting from Middle Tennessee State University in 1998.

Josh A. McCreary (Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary) joined the Company in 2019 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. Prior to joining NHC, Mr. McCreary practiced law for 20 years at Hudson, Reed & McCreary, PLLC. In private practice, he regularly counseled and represented businesses, governments, and individuals in a wide variety of transactional, compliance, and litigation matters. As part of his private practice, he also served as the County Attorney for Rutherford County, Tennessee from 2016-2019. Mr. McCreary received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee where he also served as an editor on the Tennessee Law Review. He received his B.A. degree from Lipscomb University. Mr. McCreary serves on several non-profit boards, including Barnabas Vision, Inc., Journeys in Community Living, Inc., and the Burgess Family Foundation.

Richard F. LaRoche (Independent Director) served NHC for 27 years as Secretary and General Counsel and 14 years as Senior Vice President, retiring from these positions in May 2002. He has served as an NHC Board member since 2002. He has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College. He has previously served on the publicly held boards of National Health Investors, Inc. (1991 through 2008), and National Health Realty, Inc. (1997 through 2007). Mr. LaRoche also served as a director of privately held Lodge Manufacturing Company, was a member of its Compensation and Audit Committees, and was Chair of its Audit Committee (2001-2021).

Sandra Y. Trail (Independent Director) joined the Board in 2022. Ms. Trail has been a licensed practicing attorney for over 35 years as a sole proprietor and since 2018 as a principal in the firm of Trail, Coleman and Stearns, PLLC located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In her capacity as an attorney, Ms. Trail has represented businesses, governments, and individuals in a wide variety of transactional matters. Ms. Trail is also a certified public accountant and has worked in the tax and audit departments of two public accounting firms. Ms. Trail earned a B.S. degree in accounting from Middle Tennessee State University and a law degree from the Nashville School of Law. She has served on numerous legal, charitable, governmental and health care boards. She currently serves as a board member of the City of Murfreesboro Tennessee Water Resources Board, World Outreach Church's Board, Past President's Council of the Middle Tennessee State University Foundation Board of Trustees, as well as past President of the Leadership Rutherford Alumni Association, a member and past President of the Rutherford/Cannon County Bar Association, and a member and past President of the Murfreesboro Estate Planning Council.

Robert G. Adams (Chairman & Independent Director) has served NHC for 51 years - 20 years as Senior Vice President, 11 years as Chief Operating Officer, 5 years as President, 12 years as CEO and 32 years on the Board. He became Chairman of the Board on January 1, 2009 and served as Chief Executive Officer from November 1, 2004 until December 31, 2016. Mr. Adams retired from his position as CEO effective December 31, 2016 but remains non-executive Chairman of the Board. He has extensive long-term health care experience, including serving NHC as a healthcare center administrator and Regional Vice President. Mr. Adams joined the Board of National Health Investors, Inc. (NHI) in May 2020. Mr. Adams has a B.S. degree from Middle Tennessee State University. He also served on the board of National Health Realty, Inc. from December 1997 through October 2007.

Emil E. Hassan (Independent Director) joined the Board in April 2004. In 2004, he retired from the position of Senior Vice President of manufacturing, purchasing, quality and logistics for Nissan North America, Inc. while also serving as Chairman and CEO of Distribution and Auto Services (DAS), a Nissan affiliate company. Prior to joining Nissan, he was with Ford Motor Co. for twelve years, where he held various management positions in engineering and manufacturing. He served for 30 years as the chairman of the Business/Education Partnership of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County and sits on the Ascension, St. Thomas Health Board of Directors Quality and Safety Committee. He is a member of the Leadership Rutherford Alumni Association and the Leadership Nashville Alumni Association. He is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Nashville Branch. Mr. Hassan is Chairman of NHC's Compensation Committee and also serves on NHC's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee.

J. Paul Abernathy, M.D. (Independent Director) joined the Board in 2003 and is a retired board-certified general surgeon. He was in private practice at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic from 1971 until retirement in 1995. Previously, he served as a general practice physician for Hazard Memorial Hospital in Hazard, Kentucky. Lt. Col. Abernathy additionally served as a flight surgeon for the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida and Chief of Surgery for the United States Air Force at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. Dr. Abernathy twice served as President of the Rutherford County Stones River Academy of Medicine and is a member of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Abernathy has a B.S. degree from Middle Tennessee State University and an M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee.

W. Andrew Adams (Independent Director) served NHC as a full-time employee and director for 32 years and served as its President and CEO until he resigned those positions in 2004, remaining as Chairman of the Board through 2008. Mr. Adams has announced his retirement effective following the Meeting. At its inception in December 1997, he served National Health Realty, Inc. as President and Chairman of the Board, resigning his position as President in November 2004. Mr. Adams has been President (through February 25, 2009) and CEO (through February 28, 2011) and Director of NHI since its inception in 1991; he retired from the NHI Board effective December 31, 2024. Mr. Adams previously served on the boards of American Health Care Association, National Council of Health Centers, Assisted Living Concepts, SunTrust Bank, Lipscomb University, Middle Tennessee State University, and the Boy Scouts of America. He received his B.S. and M.B.A. from Middle Tennessee State University. He is the brother of Robert G. Adams.

The Board of Directors of the Company effective February 12, 2026 appointed Mr. Andrew Adams as director of the company. Andrew Adams served as the administrator of one of the Company's largest facilities, AdamsPlace, a CCRC with 289 beds/units, for more than a decade early in his career. Since 2014, he has served as the President of a multilocation financial services company and has overseen its expansion from nine to twenty retail locations. Mr. Adams has a B.A. degree in business administration from Lipscomb University. He is the nephew of Robert Adams, Chairman of the Board, son of Andy Adams, a former Board member, and grandson of the Company's founder, Dr. Carl Adams.

Vicki L. Dodson (Senior Vice President, Patient Services) was named Senior Vice President, Patient Services on June 1, 2019. She joined NHC in 1984 and previously held the title of Assistant Vice President, Patient Services since 2017, and, prior to that, served as Electronic Health Record (EHR) Director and Comprehensive Patient Care Software (CPCS) User Analyst. She began her career with NHC as a Home Care staff nurse and then served as a Director of Nursing and Regional Nurse. In 1996, Ms. Dodson came to the corporate office as a clinical user analyst to assist with the development and support of electronic patient assessments. Ms. Dodson earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Austin Peay State University. She is a current member of the Tennessee and the American Nurses Associations. She is also a current member of the Clinical Practices Committee for the American Health Care Association, the Nurse Executive Council and the Strategic HealthCare Programs Advisory Board.

The Board of Directors of the Company effective February 12, 2026 appointed Dr. David Gifford as director of the company. David Gifford, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician who, since 2011 and until his recent retirement, served in multiple positions at the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), which represents nursing homes, assisted living communities, and intermediate care facilities. He helped create the Quality Department at AHCA/NCAL and led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gifford oversaw several departments while at AHCA/NCAL including the Quality, Regulatory, Research and Provider Network teams. He established the Center for Health Policy and Evaluation in LTC and the EMR Data Cooperative. During his tenure at AHCA/NCAL, he also served as a member of the Baldridge Foundation Board, a 501c3 established by Congress to support and promote the US Department of Commerce's Malcolm Baldridge Program. He is the co-author of LTC Success: How Senior Care Communities Thrive Clinically and Financially and holds a faculty appointment at Brown University Medical School and School of Public Health. Earlier in his career, Dr. Gifford served as Chair of the US Department of Veteran's Affairs Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee, which advised the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on geriatric issues facing veterans. From 2005-2011, Dr. Gifford was the Director of the Rhode Island State Department of Health, where he received the National Governor's Distinguished Service Award for State Officials for his management of the H1N1 influenza outbreak. Dr. Gifford received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and conducted his geriatric fellowship at UCLA, where he also earned his Master's Degree in Public Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.