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MedicAlert® Membership Benefits
MedicAlert® Advantage Membership offers you services that extend far beyond the protection our emblem provides. Our comprehensive benefits ensure you of the most safeguards for your health in the event of a medical emergency. For information regarding MedicAlert GOLD® Premium Membership, click here.
24-HOUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICE The MedicAlert Emergency Call Center is on duty 24 hrs/day, 365 days/year, to ensure your health will be safeguarded in any medical emergency. Every MedicAlert member receives this service.
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SECURE ONLINE ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD (PHR) Control your Personal Health Record by registering your membership at www.medicalert.org. You can update your personal information, your medical profile or purchase additional products any time you log in, 24/hrs day. |
PRODUCT SELECTION MedicAlert offers a progressive line of eHealth products to protect your overall health and safety. Products include the E-HealthKEY, Health Enhancement System, and our world renown extensive line of premium emblems. |
| MEMBER SERVICES CONTACT CENTER
Our Member Services Contact Center is available to help update your file, order a new emblem, renew your Membership or simply respond to your questions. |
FAMILY NOTIFICATION SERVICE MedicAlert knows your well-being affects people who care about you, too. In the event of an emergency, we will notify your family or designated contact. |
| MEDICAL PROFILE & MEDICATION DOSAGES
MedicAlert provides you with a record summary of the medical profile stored in your personal health record, including the prescribed dosages for medications you take regularly. Always refer to this summary when you need to make changes to your medical profile or update your dosages. No charge for dosage services. |
| MEDICAL DEVICE INFORMATION
Surgical implants and other medical devices can impact emergency medical treatment. MedicAlert Advantage Membership enables you to store your device information, including manufacturer, model and serial number, along with your medical profile. |
| MEMBERSHIP ID CARD
Members are issued a Membership ID Card, which includes your name, ID, record summary on the back, and MedicAlert's 24-Hour Emergency Response number. |
| EFFECTIVE SERVICE
The MedicAlert emblem has been widely recognized since 1956. MedicAlert works closely with emergency response personnel to ensure they will look for your MedicAlert emblem should you be involved in a medical emergency. |
| RECORD SUMMARY
Your record summary shows all the information stored in your personal health record. Refer to it when you need to update your personal health record. |
What Physicians Say About MedicAlert®
"In a medical emergency I need to know about your conditions and medications...And I need to know quickly. Having this information could help me save your life."
Stephan G. Lynn, MD
Director, Department of Emergency Medicine
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY
"MedicAlert’s immediate response dramatically improves the chances for survival."
Charlotte Yeh, MD
former Chief
of Emergency Medicine
New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
"We in EMS are medical detectives, and MedicAlert® may give that clue we need."
Thomas Brabson, DO
Emergency Physician/EMS Educator
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
"It's really helpful to have medical identification, especially when people are diabetic or have seizure disorders, with an engraved description of their medication in two or three words...It spares us the expensive and time-consuming testing...And it could probably save a life now and again."
Robert Rosenthal, MD
Professor of
Emergency Medicine
George Washington University Medical Center,
Washington, D.C.
What Members Say About MedicAlert®
“…the ambulance driver gave my nurse my MedicAlert® card – off he went. He returned a short time later and made the comment, ‘Wish more of my patients had this card.’”
Lorraine H.,
Member since 1991
“If the doctor hadn’t read the back of my bracelet, I don’t think I’d be here telling you my story, since I was unable to speak at the time. No way on God’s green earth that this bracelet is coming off! You never know when an emergency will happen. I won’t let anybody take it off from me.”
Cynthia Adams,
Member since 1972
“When you don’t have family or friends close by, MedicAlert is the next best thing. Wearing my MedicAlert emblem gives me freedom to do activities around town and in the big city without being frightened.”
Bobbie Lee Byington-Rosner, Member since 1990
“This is not the first time the hospital has used your service. It has just been the last few years I needed to call on your services. I am glad you are there.”
Lovila H,
Member since 1970
For more information please visit http://www.medicalert.org.