Friday, March 29, 2013

Sleep Center to be Opened at GRMC

Grinnell Regional Medical Center will open a sleep center in partnership with the Mercy Sleep Center beginning in early May. This unique opportunity allows residents to be tested and analyzed for various sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea. Humans spend about 3,000 hours a year sleeping and it is an essential part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

“If you feel tired and/or unrefreshed despite obtaining sufficient sleep, perhaps you suffer from a sleep disorder that affects the restfulness of your sleep,” explains Melisa Coaker, MA, MD, medical director of the clinic in Grinnell. “We conduct sleep studies and evaluations to help optimize your sleep.”

The sleep center will initially be located on the second floor of the hospital. Sleep studies will be scheduled three times a week. The sleep center will consist of two sleep rooms with comfortable beds and an optimal sleeping environment so that a home-like situation can be simulated. Registered technologists will monitor brain wave activity, muscle activity, blood oxygen levels, and breathing patterns. After the test is completed, the technologist will analyze your results and Coaker will interpret them and develop a treatment plan along with the patient to address the sleeping disorder. She will host clinic hours for consultations in the visiting specialty clinic area on the second floor of the Ahrens Medical Arts Building.

Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, Coaker completed her undergraduate and graduate training at the Wayne State University in Detroit and earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to clinic consultation time at the Grinnell Regional Sleep Center, Coaker also see patients at the Mercy Sleep Center in Clive, Iowa.

“We are excited to begin this contract and help the community get the most out of their good night’s sleep,” Coaker says.


To schedule an evaluation, call Grinnell Regional Sleep Center at 515-358-9640 or speak with your primary care provider.  

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