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July '09 - Sleep Disorders

Mercy Health Partners: The Mercy Circle of Caring

At Mercy Health Partners, you’ll find the clinical experience and technology you’d expect from a leading-edge healthcare provider. But you’ll also experience something else: compassionate and individualized attention. We call it the Mercy Circle of Caring and you’ll experience it at every point of interaction from registration to rehabilitation.

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Healthy Ideas: July '09 - Sleep Disorders

Mercy Health Partners is a leading-edge healthcare provider that features five award-winning hospitals, board-certified physicians, as well as a wide variety of programs and services, including diagnostics and treatment of sleep disorders.

Are you sleepy during the day?  Are you tired no matter how much sleep you get?
You may have sleep apnea, or another sleep disorder, that is keeping you from being rested when you get up in the morning. Over 22 million people in America have sleep apnea, and even more have it and are unaware. 

The Sleep Center at Mercy Anderson is a comprehensive diagnostic and short-term treatment facility to evaluate and treat a wide range of sleep problems.  Watch the video on the right with Dr. Junaid Malik to find out more about the care and treatments available for sleep disorders.

What are the most common sleep disorders today?

  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Central sleep apnea
  • Upper airway resistance syndrome
  • Period limb movement, or restless leg
  • Narcolepsy
  • Sleepwalking / REM behavior disorder
  • Other parasomnias

What happens if sleep disorders go untreated?  Could they just go away?
Besides being tired, and unable to enjoy life as much as you should, experts agree that there is a connection between untreated sleep-related breathing disorders and heart disease.  If left undiagnosed, untreated sleep disorders may contribute to:

  • High blood pressure
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Heart failure
  • Stroke
  • Cardiac arrhythmias
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Depression
  • Obesity

What treatments are available for sleep disorders?
Sleep disorder treatments have changed greatly over the last ten years and are now individualized for the needs of each patient.  Very often the c-pap machine is prescribed, but there also are 1,000 varieties of masks; some just fitting inside the nostril.  Treatment at the Sleep Center at Mercy Anderson is a holistic approach, coordinated with:

  • Dietitian and nutritional services
  • Fitness and exercise
  • Stress management
  • Massage therapy
  • Patient education
  • Support groups

What advantages does the Sleep Center at Mercy Anderson provide to a patient with sleep disorders?
At the Sleep Center at Mercy Anderson, all of our patient rooms are private rooms and have been designed to make you feel at home with amenities such as cable television and private bathrooms.

If you are not feeling well-rested in the morning, and would like to have more energy to play with your children, work out, and when you get home from work, call for a consultation with the Sleep Center at Mercy Anderson.


To schedule a consultation with a board-certified sleep specialist, please contact Mercy’s Pulmonary Consultants at 513-793-2654, or visit us online at e-mercy.com.






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