SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4, 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 October 5, 2009 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2009. This is a two percent (2%) increase over the dividend declared in the same quarter of the prior year, and the same as the preceding quarterly dividend.