American Medical Alarms Inc, Services

Basically what happens is, you would have a little pendant that you wear either around your neck or wrist. (Equipment)

It is water resistant so you can wear it in the shower or tub. The important thing is if you ever need help, all you do is push the button you are wearing.

About 40-45 seconds later our monitoring center is going to begin to have a two way conversation with you through a little console that is plugged in at your house. At this time you may say something to us like, "I've fallen but I don't need an ambulance, would you please call my son/daughter, neighbor, or friend?" It's not always a paramedic emergency and we are going to do pretty much whatever it is you ask us to do.

However, if we are unable to speak with you or you say it's an emergency, we would immediately dispatch the local paramedics to your house.

After we speak with your local 911 center we will call the contacts you have listed as "Keyholders". A Keyholder is a person who lives or works less than 5 minutes from your home and could meet rescue to open the door. If you have no keyholders or are not sure of their availability, we do offer a realtor's type lockbox. The key to your home is locked inside and we would give the combination to rescue at the time of the emergency.

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After rescue and the keyholders have been called, we will then call those listed on your call sheet as a "Must Notify". This means that we will try to reach one of these contacts to let them know that we have dispatched an ambulance to your house. People listed as a Must Notify are generally family members who need to know there has been an emergency so they can be with you. They do not need to live close by, they could even be out of state, but they just want to know there has been an emergency.

All of this happens with just the push of a button. We hope you will never need to use your medical alarm, but people wind up in nursing homes everyday. Not because they had an emergency, but because they needed help…and nobody knew about it. Our system can help protect you or your loved ones if that emergency should occur.

By www.americanmedicalalarms.com