Sleep Center
Helping You Sleep Better
Our Sleep Center is devoted to helping you sleep better. With sleep studies, expert diagnoses, and personalized treatment plans, they can help you rest well and get back to the life that you love. The Sleep Center is conveniently located in EJ North on the East Jefferson General Hospital campus and is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and performs insurance authorizations for sleep studies.
Medical Director Stephen Layne, MD, pulmonologist, leads the patient care team.
Dr. Layne is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and
specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Alex Hoang,
MD, family practice physician, is a Diplomate of the American Academy
of Sleep Medicine and serves as a professional member of the Sleep Center
team. Sleep studies are conducted by licensed respiratory therapists and
registered polysomnographic technologists.
Diagnosing sleep disorders
Disorders are diagnosed through sleep studies conducted by licensed respiratory therapists and registered polysomnographic technologists, usually overnight.
The Sleep Disorders Center can help to diagnose the following disorders:
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Often characterized by loud snoring, obstructive sleep apnea causes the sleeper to stop breathing momentarily many times during the night. The brain wakes the sleeper to resume breathing each time.
- Narcolepsy: This disorder causes sudden sleep at inappropriate times. Narcolepsy can be both embarrassing and dangerous.
- Insomnia: The inability to fall asleep or stay asleep, insomnia can result in fatigue, irritability and poor concentration.
- Chronic Snoring: Loud snoring night after night may not affect the sleeper, but it often disrupts a bed partner’s sleep.
- Restless Leg Syndrome: People affected experience crawling or painful sensations in their legs while trying to fall asleep.
- Other disorders: Sleepwalking, periodic limb movement disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding).