Searching For A Good Night's Sleep

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia
Article Date: 21 Jul 2010 - 1:00 PDT

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A good night's sleep is crucial to daily function, but more than 40 million Americans live with an undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorder in the United States. At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, the sleep-challenged can find help at the Sleep Center, now conveniently located at the Hawthorne Inn to provide patients with the highest quality of care in a comfortable and relaxing environment.

Sleep Center patients can check in as early as 3 p.m. the day of the study. Patient accommodations include a room with a private bathroom and all the additional amenities that the hotel provides, including brand new mattresses, fitness center, swimming pool and an award-winning restaurant. Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., a sleep technician arrives to attach the sensors and monitors to the patient, and then it's off to sleep. Around 6 a.m. the technician returns to wake the patient and remove the sensors. Patients can roll over to get more sleep or start their day with a shower, get dressed, and enjoy a complimentary breakfast buffet.

"Another distinguishing feature of our sleep center is that we have board certified sleep doctors from four different specialties," says W. Vaughn McCall, M.D., medical director of the Sleep Center. "We can address just about any sleep-related problem patients may experience."

The Wake Forest Baptist sleep program is nationally accredited by the American Sleep Disorder Association and includes a multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment team of experts in cardiology, neurology, orthodontics, otolaryngology, psychiatry, and pulmonary, as well as polysomnographic technologists and nurse specialists.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest University Physicians, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The system, which includes Lexington Memorial Hospital, comprises 1,004 acute care and rehabilitation beds and has been ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S.News & World Report since 1993. Wake Forest Baptist also holds the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission, the nation's esteemed standards-setting and accrediting body for health care quality. Wake Forest Baptist has more than 200 physicians listed in Best Doctors in America®. The institution is in the top third in funding by the National Institutes of Health and fourth in the Southeast in revenues from its licensed intellectual property.

Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

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