Deaconess Sleep Center

Tech was absolutely amazing and I can’t say enough great things about the tech. The best nights sleep I’d gotten in decades. Wish I could be there several nights a week, I haven’t slept since I left that place for the most part. Definitely would recommend it to anybody who needs it.

The Deaconess Sleep Lab needs to do a substantially better job of providing information about what to expect for a sleep study. Some of us have multiple sleep disorders that are getting evaluated, including insomnia. No real information was given on what to expect for the night even though I requested it twice. Not realizing how difficult the sleep environment was going to be made this a significantly expensive disaster. Deaconess, allow me to your job for you. Here’s some of the information that should have been given to us on what to expect: Get up early the morning of your test so that you’re nice and tired that night, because sleep studies can be difficult to sleep through. You’ll be provided a hospital room with a bed, bedding, a chair, a TV, and a private bathroom. However the bedding and pillows are very basic and you can bring in your own blankets and pillow if you’d be more comfortable. Make sure to bring comfortable clothes to sleep in, any medications you might need for that night or the next morning, and consider bringing some kind of over-the-counter or prescription sleep medication. You’ll arrive at 8 pm and be shown your room. Make sure to immediately change into whatever you’ll be sleeping in. Once they start attaching wires to your body, you can no longer change your shirt. The first thing they’ll do is spend about 30 minutes attaching you to a chest harness that has around 30 different wires that will connect to adhesive electrodes placed on your arms, legs, face, and scalp. To get the electrodes to adhere to your scalp, a significant amount of a special glue will be placed in areas of your hair for the night. A nasal cannula will be placed around your ears and into your nose to monitor your breathing, and an oxygen sensor will go on your finger. All of this can be difficult to sleep in, which is why I would recommend getting up very early the morning of the test to make you tired and using a sleep aid. Once everything is hooked up the hospital technician then leaves the room, and you have a call button to request them come back. You’ll also use this call button if you need anything throughout the night. At this point you’re allowed to roam around the room until you feel like you can fall asleep. You’re encouraged to sleep as soon as possible. There is a camera in the corner of the room for the technicians to observe you in case something is wrong. Oscillating fans are available to request, but they’re not great fans and mine significantly rattled until I removed the center cap. Once you think you’re tired you’ll page the technician back into the room. They’ll hook your chest monitor to the wall. Once this happens you’ll need to page the technician again if you need to get up at any point, such as going to the bathroom. Try your best to sleep through the night. Between the wires, glue in your hair, and tubing in your nose this isn’t necessarily easy. The technician will wake you up at 6 am to take everything off and go home. Not knowing any of this, combined with the difficult sleep conditions, and my existing sleep disorders that I was ironically being tested for made this an expensive disaster. I barely slept during the test and now owe $690 on top of the $5,000 that my insurance paid. I doubt my insurance will pay again to have this done anytime soon. But the lack of any real information sent to me prior to this test by Deaconess is somewhere between infuriating and negligent. You billed my insurance $5,616 and there were 3 of us testing that night, meaning that Deaconess was paid over $16,800 that night alone. You have the money to send an information packet, not just driving instructions. Do better.

Very comfortable setting, well trained technicians. Reggie was very personable & helped me relax. Very knowledgeable too.