American Medical takes Chicago

Representatives of American Medical Alert Corp., provider of healthcare communication services and advanced home health monitoring technologies, have announced the acquisition of American Mediconnect, Inc. and Phone Screen, Inc.

Founded in 1985, American Mediconnect is a Chicago-based firm which specializes in health care communications, exclusively serving hospitals, medical center, physician practices, clinics, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare advertisers. American Mediconnect numbers show that the company handles several million calls a year from medical patients through its telephone answering service.

Phone Screen Inc. was founded in 1991 as a specialty services provider for the niche market of medical answering service.

With the announcement of acquisition, American Medical Alert CEO Howard M. Siegel stated that Chicago is "a great city and a logical next step for our call center geographic expansion plan," and that specialty call center services for the pharmaceutical industry is "a natural extension of our current healthcare communication services offerings."