EXHIBIT 99.1

PRESS RELEASE                 Source: National Health Partners, Inc.

                         NATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS, INC.
                    BEGINS TRADING ON THE OTC BULLETIN BOARD

Monday April 3, 9:27 am ET

HORSHAM, Pa - (BUSINESS WIRE) - April 3, 2006 - National Health Partners, Inc.
(OTCBB: NHPR - News), a leading provider of unique discount healthcare
membership programs, today announced that its common stock has been approved by
the National Association of Securities Dealers for trading on the
Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. Effective immediately, the company's shares
have begun trading on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol "NHPR".
Park Financial Group, Inc., a registered broker-dealer, is serving as the
initial market maker for the company.

"We are very excited to be trading on the OTC Bulletin Board," said David M.
Daniels, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Health Partners. "The
approval to trade on the OTC Bulletin Board is the first step in our plan to
attract new institutional investors and increase the marketability of our stock.
Our status as a fully reporting company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board
provides our stock with increased liquidity, easier access to stock quotes and
more market transparency. I am confident that the increased visibility that we
are gaining through this listing will create new sales and marketing
opportunities for the company."

The OTC Bulletin Board is a regulated quotation service that displays real-time
quotes, last-sale prices, and volume information in over-the-counter equity
securities. It provides access to more than 3,300 securities, includes more than
230 participating market makers, electronically transmits real-time quote, price
and volume information in domestic securities, foreign securities and American
Depositary Receipts (ADRs), and displays indications of interest and prior-day
trading activity in Direct Participation Programs (DPPs). Its securities include
national, regional, and foreign equity issues, warrants, units, ADRs, and DPPs.

NATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS, INC.

National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings organization
that provides discount healthcare membership programs to uninsured and
underinsured people through a national healthcare savings network called
CARExpress. CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors,
dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and is
comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that have agreed to render
their services and products to CARExpress members at discounted prices. The
company is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania. For more information on the
company, please visit its website at www.nationalhealthpartners.com.





SAFE HARBOR PROVISION

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than
statements of historical fact contained herein, including, without limitation,
statements regarding the company's future financial position, business strategy,
budgets, projected revenues and costs, and plans and objectives of management
for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology
such as "may," "will," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "estimates,"
"anticipates," or "believes" or the negative thereof or any variation thereon or
similar terminology or expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from results proposed in such statements. Although the company believes that the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can
provide no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
company's expectations include, but are not limited to, its ability to fund
future growth and implement its business strategy, its ability to develop and
expand the market for its CARExpress membership programs, demand for and
acceptance of its CARExpress membership programs, its dependence on a limited
number of preferred provider organizations and other provider networks for
healthcare providers, as well as those factors set forth in the company's Annual
Report on Form 10-KSB and its other filings and submissions with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except
as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any of
the information contained in this press release.

Contact:

National Health Partners, Inc.
Alex Soufflas, (215) 682-7114
info@nationalhealthpartners.com

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Source:  National Health Partners, Inc.