WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF A CAREFULLY TAKEN HISTORY AND DEFINITIVE TESTING

Some centers rely on ambulatory screening recordings to determine whether an actual sleep center study is warranted. These tests are frequently inadequate either for the diagnosis or exclusion of significant illnesses or to provide a basis for their effective management. Such a strategy creates "add-on" costs and also can leave patients untreated.

Our Center is committed to appropriate assessment of the patient. Thus, we do not favor potentially unreliable short cuts that can result in patients suffering complications that could and should have been prevented.

WE PERFORM SLEEP RECORDINGS WITH THE FOLLOWING GOALS IN MIND:

First, determination of the nature and severity of the given individual's sleep-related illnesses.

Then, arriving at effective treatments that patients can and will use over time: comfortably and with good sustained control of illness.

When monitoring patients with sleep apnea, we do not allow breathing failure to continue untreated once its severity has been established. Instead, we begin treatments immediately: to protect the patient's health, while expediting the development of effective solutions.

Our primary objective is to get and keep our patients well--through individualized care and follow-up support. We do not "just do sleep tests". Our focus is on the patient, not the test.

WE DOCUMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND HIGH LEVELS OF PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH CARE

For example, 95% of all patients assessed at our Center have rated the care they received as excellent!

FOLLOW-UP SUPPORT, TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINED GOOD OUTCOMES AND TREATMENT COMPLIANCE

Poor compliance can pose serious problems in sleep medicine, particularly with use of positive airway pressure. Some studies have indicated that over half of patients started on CPAP abandon treatment: leaving them at recurrent and ongoing risk of such complications as heart attack, heart failure, stroke and sleep-related highway crashes.

Even the common tendency for patients to wear CPAP only during the first part of the night can be dangerous, since their most severe oxygen desaturations are likely to occur during the final hour of sleep. Skilled trouble-shooting assistance is often crucial to help patients overcome initial difficulties with use of positive airway pressure. To refer patients instead for alternative, second-line treatments with high failure and relapse rates is not an acceptable option.

Our Center provides the follow-up care and support needed to help patients get and stay well.