The March 2017 Department Discovery shines a light on the Sleep Center!
Did you know that an estimated 123 million American suffer from sleep-related
problems? In fact, nearly two thirds of all adults experience insufficient
sleep three or more times per week. Campbell County Health’s
Sleep Center at Campbell County Memorial Hospital is designed to monitor and evaluate
people during sleep, providing information for physicians to diagnose
and treat sleeping disorders in Gillette, Wyoming. For those who don’t
know, the Sleep Center is accredited by the
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and is one of three accredited programs in the state of Wyoming.
“We don’t just perform sleep studies for the purpose of diagnosis,”
says coordinator Dessie Hoxie. “We provide full continuity of sleep
health care from diagnosis, to treatment, and sleep health follow-up.”
CCH's Sleep Center is specially designed for sleep studies and provides
a full range of diagnostic and treatment for more than 70 different sleep
disorders. The most commonly treated sleep disorders are:
- snoring
- sleep apnea
- insomnia
- restless legs syndrome
- and shift work disorder
Left untreated, sleep disorders can lead to serious health conditions like
weight gain, high blood pressure,
cardiac problems,
diabetes, and increased risk of motor vehicle accidents.
The Sleep Center is staffed by eight Registered Polysomnographic Technicians
and Respiratory Therapists, who assist the doctor in making a diagnosis.
While patients sleep in quiet, comfortable rooms, our technologists observe
and record sleep patterns, heart and respiratory activity, and body movements
at an adjacent monitoring room. Most sleep disorders can be treated effectively
once they have been accurately diagnosed.
The staff at the Sleep Center is currently working with an interim Sleep
Medical Director, Dr. Robert Finley from Rapid City, to ensure all sleep
patient referrals are provided sleep health management. Dr. Finley is
in Gillette weekly to provide sleep study follow-up appointments and new
patient evaluations.
“The staff at the Sleep Center strives to give 100 percent to our
patients, and our co-workers,” says Dessie. “The best thing
about our department is our teamwork—we work well together, communicate
well, anticipate our patients’ needs and proactively find the solution
that is best for them. I’m proud of this team.”
The Sleep Center is the only four-bed clinic in a 100-mile radius, which
accepts insurance and Medicare patients. It is open six nights per week
for patient convenience, and operated according to American Academy of
Sleep Medicine standards. The Center performs an average of 80 sleep studies
per month.
A big round of applause to the Sleep Center team! Thank you for all that
you do in keeping our community healthy, and well rested. Learn more about
the Sleep Center at
www.cchwyo.org/sleep.