One of my early investments was in HCP, it was my way to enter the healthcare field in a way that was supposed to take advantage of the aging population. It's a dividend champion and has been for a long time but like Greg likes to point out, it seeming more and more like there are fundamental changes happening within the company and I believe I'm going to step away. Anytime there are Judicial investigations into 25% of the company and senior executives leaving the company, the handwriting may be on the wall.
Read this article but more importantly read the comments below the article and see if you get the same feeling.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3243...nc-safe-to-buy
Hardest decision may be trying to decide which other dividend champ to buy to replace it.