SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Utah Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:UTMD) announces that its Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of twenty-three cents ($.23) per share of common stock payable on April 3, 2009 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 13, 2009. This is a two percent (2%) increase over the dividend declared in the same quarter of the prior year.