Sleep affects nearly every part of your health—energy, mood, concentration, and even heart and lung function. About 70 million Americans experience ongoing sleep concerns such as insomnia, excessive sleepiness, or disrupted sleep cycles. A sleep study, it is an overnight evaluation, also known as a polysomnography, that monitors breathing, oxygen levels, heart rate, brain activity, and movement to help identify the cause of sleep problems and guide treatment through sleep medicine.
Rural Sleep Solutions provides sleep studies at Jefferson Community Health & Life as an outpatient service through the Respiratory Therapy department. A sleep study requires a physician’s order and is typically covered by Medicare and most commercial insurance companies.
Sleep studies may help evaluate concerns such as:
- Suspected sleep apnea test needs (including CPAP evaluation)
- Persistent insomnia and difficulty falling asleep (sometimes measured as sleep latency)
- Irregular sleep patterns related to circadian rhythm disruption
- Movement-related sleep concerns such as restless legs syndrome (RLS/rls), periodic limb movement disorder, or twitching in sleep
- Parasomnias such as sleepwalking, night terrors, or REM sleep behavior disorder
We also support education that reinforces better rest at home, including practical sleep hygiene guidance that complements diagnostic testing. Some diagnoses may result in recommendations for more extensive sleep testing or treatment at a more specialized facility.
Services
- Split-night polysomnography
- CPAP Titration polysomnography (helps determine the right settings for a CPAP machine)
- BiPAP application and titration
- Auto/Adaptive Servo-Ventilation application and titration
- Oxygen administration
Limitations
- Clients over 500 pounds in weight will be referred to a sleep medicine center equipped to care for bariatric patients.
- Clients 13 years and younger will be referred to a sleep medicine center equipped to care for pediatric patients, including evaluation for sleep disorders in children.
Contact
For more information, please contact Stacy Shumard, RRT, Director of Respiratory and Sleep Lab Services, at 402.729.3351, ext. 4436.