The Ensign Group (ENSG) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.04 per share.

"The increased dividend is consistent with our improved earnings, strong cash flow and additional growth in 2015," commented Christopher Christensen, Ensign’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “This is the thirteenth consecutive year Ensign has increased its dividend, which reflects our continued confidence in Ensign’s operating model and in our ability to return long-term value to our shareholders,” he added. Ensign has been a dividend-paying company since 2002.

The Ensign Group, Inc.'s provides skilled nursing and assisted living services, physical, occupational and speech therapies, home health and hospice services and other rehabilitative and healthcare services at healthcare facilities, hospice agencies, home health agencies and home care businesses in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. Ensign has been a dividend-paying company since 2002.