Exhibit 99.1

PRESS RELEASE                            Source:  National Health Partners, Inc.

                         NATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS, INC.
                      PROVIDES BUSINESS UPDATE TO INVESTORS

Wednesday, April 12, 4:00 am ET

HORSHAM, Pennsylvania - (BUSINESS WIRE) - April 12, 2006 - National Health
Partners, Inc. (OTCBB: NHPR - News), a leading provider of unique discount
healthcare membership programs, is providing a general business update to its
investors.

"We have accomplished a great deal over the past 12 months," said David M.
Daniels, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Health Partners.
"Most notably, the registration statement on Form SB-2 for our initial public
offering was declared effective by the SEC and our shares recently began trading
on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol "NHPR."

"National Health has engaged in several test marketing campaigns over the past
12 months," continued Mr. Daniels. "As a result of these campaigns, we have
acquired valuable information on member demographics and have begun to actively
market and sell our CARExpress membership programs to the public. We intend to
engage in advertising campaigns involving both television and radio that will be
focused on specific markets we have identified as having the potential to be
very lucrative to our business. We expect these advertising campaigns to result
in significant growth in our members and revenues during 2006."

"We believe our shareholders understand the potential for CARExpress. We have
raised over $4 million from investors from the sale of stock and warrants over
the past two years. We have also received over $500,000 in 2006 from the
exercise of some of these warrants by our shareholders. We believe that these
investment decisions by our shareholders reflect the confidence that they have
in the company and our business plan."

"I am very excited about our accomplishments over the past 12 months and our
plans for the company in 2006," said Mr. Daniels. "We have several exciting
business opportunities on the horizon and anticipate signing some significant
agreements in the near future for the promotion and sale of our CARExpress
programs. We will continue to provide the public with periodic updates on our
accomplishments throughout 2006."




Termination of Florida Lease

On April 1, 2006, the company terminated the lease for its facility in Sarasota,
Florida. "Our decision to terminate this lease reflects our plan to focus our
operations in Horsham, Pennsylvania and exemplifies the efforts we are making to
run our operations as cost-effectively as we can," commented David Daniels. "Our
Horsham facility is fully-equipped with a state-of-the-art computer and
telecommunications room wired to handle our growing needs and provides us with
the capacity to expand our customer service base to approximately 80 customer
service reps. The termination of this lease will save us over $500,000 in rent
and other expenses that we would have had to pay under the lease during the
remainder of the term." The termination of this lease is expected to result in a
gain on the extinguishment of debt for the company's current quarter.

Appointments of Alex Soufflas and David A. Taylor

In February, the company appointed Alex Soufflas as its Chief Financial Officer
and appointed David A. Taylor as its Senior Vice President - National Sales.
"The recent appointments of Alex and David will contribute greatly to our future
success," stated David Daniels. "Alex was instrumental in taking us public and
will be a tremendous asset for us in all facets of our business going forward.
David brings us a considerable amount of sales experience and has helped obtain
several marketing and distribution partners for CARExpress."

Alex Soufflas serves as the company's Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice
President and Secretary, and previously served as the company's General Counsel.
Mr. Soufflas was an attorney specializing in public and private securities
offerings, mergers & acquisitions, contracts and corporate counseling at Duane
Morris LLP, a national law firm, Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C., a
Philadelphia-based law firm, and Sullivan & Worcester, LLP, a Boston-based law
firm. Prior to that, he was an accountant for KPMG LLP, an international
accounting firm. Mr. Soufflas received a B.S. in accounting from Purdue
University and a juris doctor from Boston College Law School.

David A. Taylor serves as the Company's Senior Vice President - National Sales.
Mr. Taylor has served as the Senior Vice President of Trident Marketing
International, Inc., a customer interaction solutions company, the Vice
President - Sales Operations and Systems of Z-Tel Communications, Inc., a
communications service provider, and the Director - Purchasing, Contract
Services and Sales of Delta Air Lines, Inc. He has also held various positions
at Norden Systems, a division of United Technologies, and General Instruments,
which was acquired by Motorola. Mr. Taylor received a B.A. in business
administration from Oswego State University and an MBA from Dowling College.

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.