COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM SLEEP DIAGNOSTICS
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Community Hospital in Munster; St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart offer state-of-the-art medical equipment and qualified staff to assist with the proper diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.
SLEEP DISORDERS
Our highly experienced staff works with the patient and their physician to treat and improve the quality of both sleeping and waking hours. We are equipped to diagnose and treat a complete range of sleep disorders including:
- Excessive daytime sleepiness - a direct result of sleep disruptions at night
- Sleep apnea - a disorder in which a person stops breathing momentarily. In obstructive sleep apnea, breathing is blocked by a closure or collapse of tissues in the throat preventing airflow through the nose
- Restless leg syndrome - a creeping, "crawling" sensation in the legs that causes an irresistible urge to move and may lead to sleep disruption
- Circadian rhythm disorders - experienced by shift workers, frequent flyers and others whose normal 24-hour biological clock is disrupted resulting in sleep deprivation
- Epilepsy - seizures during sleep, consisting of trancelike state, unusual behaviors or crying out loud or convulsions
- Narcolepsy - a neurological disorder that causes periods of extreme sleepiness and is associated with cataplexy (sudden attacks of muscle weakness triggered by a strong emotion such as crying or laughing)
- Parasomnias - abnormal behaviors related to sleep such as sleep terrors, head banging, sleepwalking and nocturnal binge eating
- Periodic limb movement disorder - involves frequent leg movements and leg jerks during sleep, awakening an individual
ONE NIGHT WITH US COULD MAKE A LIFETIME OF DIFFERENCE
A polysomnographm (PSG) evaluation at Community Healthcare Sleep Diagnostics consists of spending the night in one of the lab's comfortable, homelike bedrooms furnished with adjustable mattress, TV/VCR, nightstand, desk, sink and lounge chair. Private bath and shower facilities are available for each patient. The PSG is a painless, non-invasive procedure that requires a specially trained technologist to attach various electrodes that record electrical activity from the brain (EEG); heart(EKG);and muscle(EMG). A microphone is taped to the throat to record snoring; a sensor is placed under the nose to detect airflow; and belts placed around the chest and abdomen to monitor breathing. All this activty is monitored in a control area adjacent to the patient rooms.
SCHEDULING YOUR SLEEP EVALUATION
An appointment for a PSG can be initiated by a physician or a patient may call for a referral to one of our Sleep Diagnostic centers. The patient's sleep study findings will be forwareded to the referring physician upon interpretation.
Sleep Diagnostic Services offered at Community Hospital, St. Catherine Hospital, and St. Mary Medical Center accept payments from most insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid.
For a sleep evaluation at a Community Healthcare facility near you, call:
Community Hospital Sleep Diagnostics
901 MacArthur Blvd., Munster, IN 46321
219-836-7075
St. Catherine Hospital Sleep Diagnostics
4321 Fir Street, East Chicago, IN 46312
219-392-7666
St. Mary Medical Center Sleep Diagnostics
1500 S. Lake Park Ave., Hobart, IN 46342
219-947-6790
Community Hospital Sleep Diagnostics has been awarded full lab accreditation in the spring of 2005 by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the national governing body of sleep medicine. St. Catherine Hospital and St. Mary Medical Center are in the process of pursuing accreditation of their newly remodeled and newly opened Sleep Diagnostic Services.
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| David S. Rozenfeld, M.D. serves as medical director of Sleep Diagnostics at Community Hospital and St. Catherine Hospital. He earned his bachelor degree from University of Chicago College of Biological Sciences and his PhD in medicine from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine. His post graduate training includes a neurology residency and research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and internal medicine residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. With a special interest in sleep diagnostics, he is board certified in Sleep Medicine, Neurology and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He is former instructor in the department of Neurology for Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. His private practice is Northwest Indiana Neurological Associates, P.C., located in Munster. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine; American Association for the Study of Headache and American Academy of Sleep Medicine. |
| Emilio D. Soria, M.D. is the medical director of Sleep Diagnostics at St. Mary Medical Center. He attended medical school at the University of Salamanca, Spain and earned his degree in Psychology from the University Pontificia of Salamanca, Spain. His post graduate training includes a neurosurgery residency in Spain and a neurology residency in New York. He has served as associate professor of neurology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and University of Nebraska in Omaha. He is former clinical associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Kansas in Wichita. He is board certified in Electrodiagnostic Medicine; Clinical Neurophysiology; Psychiatry and Neurology; and in Sleep Medicine. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Section on History, American Academy of Neurology; the American Sleep Disorder Association; an American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine Fellow; and American Academy of Neurology Fellow. |
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