Sleep Center

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A sleep study is considered a medical procedure and is covered by most insurance companies. To have a sleep study, you need a referral from your doctor. Don't have a doctor? Click this button to go to our doctor search:

ECHN's Sleep Disorders Center, located within Manchester Memorial Hospital, performs simple studies that can uncover potentially dangerous sleep problems that, when treated, could significantly improve a person's health and emotional well-being.

The ECHN Sleep Disorders Center also has a satellite office, with four additional beds, at 153 Main Street in Manchester. This satellite office allows for sleep studies to be scheduled more quickly

The ECHN Sleep Disorders Center is one of only a few centers in the state to be certified by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

The Center also has two special offerings:

• Pediatric Sleep Program (click for more information)
• A-STEP Education Program for sleep professionals (click for more information)

What is a sleep problem?

Symptoms of a sleep problem include:

The cause of sleep problems can be discovered through a sleep study, which is conducted overnight in a quiet wing of the hospital or the satellite office. Patients settle in a private, homelike room, where they can read or watch TV until they fall asleep.

While they sleep, monitors measure their brain wave activity, breathing, heart rhythm, eye movements, chest movements, arm and leg movements, and oxygen level. In the morning, the patient goes home or to work, and the data collected are analyzed. Read an article that describes how our sleep studies are done.

The ECHN Sleep Disorders Center can diagnose problems such as:

• Obstructive sleep apnea, in which a person's breathing passages become temporarily blocked during sleep
• Central sleep apnea, a neurological condition in which the brain "forgets" to instruct the body to breathe
• Periodic leg movements, a syndrome in which a person's legs, feet, or toes will move during sleep, causing repeated awakening
• Restless leg syndrome, which causes uncomfortable sensations in a person's legs that can interfere with the ability to fall asleep or stay asleep
• Narcolepsy, in which a person has sudden sleep attacks throughout the day and night that sometimes cannot be controlled
• Insomnia, a chronic (ongoing) inability to fall asleep or to remain asleep throughout the night