Laerdal Medical announces government market partnership with American Medical Depot

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Wappingers Falls, NY, August 28, 2009 – Laerdal Medical Corporation announces a government market partnership with American Medical Depot.

Robin McCune, Laerdal’s Director of Corporate Accounts, states “This relationship expands the visibility of our solutions to multiple federal contracts.  We are excited to have the opportunity to work with American Medical Depot to bring the complete portfolio of Laerdal products to our mutual government and military customers world wide. Our relationship with American Medical Depot further demonstrates our commitment and passion to align with strategic partners as we expand access to our products which is in keeping with our mission of helping saving lives.”

Jeff Summerour, American Medical Depot’s Vice President for Business Development notes, “American Medical Depot is pleased to enter into this strategic partnership with Laerdal Medical to offer their full array of world-class equipment, supplies and training via our portfolio of federal contracts to meet the needs of our government customers worldwide.  Our customers have an increased emphasis in the areas of training for CPR, resuscitation, and readiness.  We believe the Laerdal product line is the perfect fit and will provide our government customers access to a complete of array of best in class products at government contracted pricing.”

Laerdal Medical, one of the world’s leading providers of Healthcare Solutions, is dedicated to helping save lives with products and services for Simulation, Airway Management, Immobilization, Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Patient Care, Self-Directed Learning, and Medical Education. We also offer a complete line of Education and Technical Services, Courseware and Consulting Services. Laerdal is pleased to serve all healthcare providers and educators, from the lay rescuer to the medical professional. For more information, visit www.laerdal.com.

American Medical Depot is a full line medical surgical distributor based in South Florida.  The entire line of Laerdal equipment, supplies, and disposables are being added to AMD’s full complement of federal contracts.  American Medical Depot is a Medical Surgical Prime Vendor for the Department of Defense, Department of Veteran Affairs, Novation, Premier, AmeriNet, MedAssets, the State of Florida and Integrated Delivery Networks throughout the country. www.american-depot.com

Contact:
Robin McCune, Director of Corporate Accounts
Laerdal Medical Corporation
800-648-1851 ext. 3226
Robin.McCune@laerdal.com

http://www.laerdal.com/