American Medical Alert (AMAC; Oceanside, New York), a provider of home health monitoring appliances and 24/7 communication services, reported the acquisition of the operating assets of Live Message America, a privately held, New Jersey-based Medical On-Call Center, specializing in outsourced telephone support for physician practices. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed. This acquisition furthers the objective of AMAC's H-Link OnCall Service Initiative, and the new business will be operated as a subsidiary of AMAC's H-Link OnCall subsidiary. Howard Siegel, president and CEO, commented, 'The acquisition of Live Message America's assets immediately expands AMAC's H-Link service area in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia and will create a contiguous service provision capability for the New Jersey. Pennsylvania market base.' He said that the acquisition would be immediately accretive to earnings.
AMAC is a provider of remote health monitoring devices and 24/7 communication services designed to promote early medical intervention for senior, disabled and chronically ill persons. Its offerings include personal emergency response systems, electronic medication reminder devices, disease management monitoring appliances and 24/7 medical on-call and emergency response monitoring. Live Message America provides 24/7 telephone answering services to physicians in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania area.
