Hospital Based Services

How does your hospital care for 70 million sleep disorder patients?

Every night 70 million people in the U.S. struggle with sleep disorders
Analysts predict that the market for sleep disorder treatments will more than double, to a $4.4 billion market by 2011. In the shadow of this mounting need, hospital administrators need to ask: How do we prepare for the coming wave of sleep disorder patients? How quickly can we be ready?

Awaken your sleep opportunity
Greater Washington Sleep Disorders Centers (GWSDC), an affiliate of SleepMed, Inc., manages a numerous turnkey hospital-based facilities and solely own and operate free-standing diagnostic sleep disorders centers in multiple locations. The “GWSDC Advantage” will enable a hospital or organization to provide their patients with the highest quality of care in sleep medicine while minimizing risks and the investment cost.

GWSDC can bring the benefits of ownership without significant start-up costs and staffing and scheduling issues. We can provide timely testing and reporting by customizing our business model to meet an organization’s specific needs. Our dedicated Marketing Team will analyze the market base and provide design concepts for marketing materials to enhance the referral base.

Hospital-based sleep centers enable hospitals to diagnose adults and children afflicted with a wide-array of sleep-related problems. Recent studies show that 70 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of sleep disorder, ranging from chronic snoring problems and Insomnia to life-threatening Sleep Apneas.

Using portable diagnostic technology in the hands of experienced Sleep Technologists, GWSDC is well-positioned to work with hospitals and other organizations to develop sleep medicine services.

Our involvement can encompass the following:

• Development of a complete turnkey, in-hospital testing facility for hospital management and operation
• Technical staffing of in-hospital facilities
• As-needed technical and professional support for scoring, analyzing, and preparing sleep study reports, usually within one (1) business day
• Performing and interpreting of as-needed, in-patient portable sleep testings.

Share in the expertise of our professional team who has successfully completed over 80,000 sleep studies. GWSDC will place a hospital and an organization at the forefront of sleep medicine.

Our responsibilities to you
Include providing new, state-of-the-art acquisition equipment, customized reporting, automated management and marketing tools, web-based access and storage, CPAP Titration system, O2 concentrators, digital video monitoring, and PulsOx system. In addition, upon request, furniture and other fixtures can be provided if needed. We also offer turnkey staffing, quality assurance, physician training, accreditation, and staff education services.

Your responsibilities to us
Include facility space, high-speed internet connections, utilities, and patient support services. Out-of-pocket expense to the hospital is usually limited to the cost associated with facility space renovations, if needed.

Customized options to fit your requirements
GWSDC will develop customized business options to fit a hospital or an organization’s specific requirements. We will promote name recognition of the facility both at the local and regional levels. Additional strategic concepts include physician development opportunities to enhance the market strength of the organization.

The combination of a continued success of our sleep centers and the exceptional qualifications of our Medical Directors have placed GWSDC in the leadership position to provide clinical education in the growing field of sleep medicine.

We provide customized courses at the both introductory and advanced levels. This service is available at our locations or at a client hospital location. With today’s advancements in the field of sleep disorders, our educational programs allow our technical staff members to stay in the forefront of diagnostic sleep medicine.

GWSDC is a recognized leader in the sleep industry. We consider OUR CLIENTS’ BUSINESS AS OUR BUSINESS and promise added value in each area of our service line. We can help a hospital and other organizations in managing a sleep diagnostic facility in an efficient and economical manner to maximize profits and operating margins while maintaining quality diagnostic testing and patient care.

Become a leader in sleep disorder care
It is estimated that sleep disorders add about $15.9 billion to the nation’s healthcare bill each year, and the related damages in lost productivity, accidents, and contributions to other serious conditions are immeasurable:

• Six (6) out of every ten (10) adults claim to have sleep problems a few nights a week or more
• Daytime sleepiness is severe enough in 40% of adults to interfere with their daily activities at least a few days each month, and for 20%, it affects a few days every week
• Despite the severity of the problem, less than 5% of those who suffer from a sleep disorder consult a physician about their condition
• As awareness of America’s sleep crisis increases, analysts predict that the market for sleep disorders treatments will more than double, ballooning from $1.63 billion today to an estimated $4.44 billion by year 2011.