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Mercy Health Physician David Beck, MD, PhD. Photo provided.
Sleep medicine specialist Samir Ataya, MD is the Medical Director of Clermont Hospital’s sleep center. Photo provided.

Submitted by Mercy.

Nearly 40 million Americans suffer from some form of sleep disorder. Mercy Health – Cincinnati’s sleep specialists have been helping patients rest better and avoid serious health risks through diagnosing and treating sleep disorders.

Following a $220,000 investment, Mercy Health has added an 1,100 square foot, two-bed sleep center in the medical arts building on the Clermont Hospital campus. The sleep center can grow to accommodate four beds to meet patient demand.

Based on learnings from the COVID pandemic, the rooms are negative pressure rooms since patients using CPAP machines during their studies are taking part in an aerosolizing procedure.

The Clermont Hospital Sleep Center offers sleep studies at the hospital as well as home sleep studies and it joins those already operating at Anderson, Fairfield and West Hospitals.

“Providing quality care close to home is important to Mercy Health and this latest service expansion at Clermont Hospital makes it more convenient for patients in Clermont, Brown and Adams county to have a sleep study,” said Clermont Hospital President Shane Knisley. “Our patients can benefit from our team of board-certified physicians, highly trained specialists and advanced medical technology to treat their sleep disorders and get back to enjoying restful sleep.”

Specialists monitor sleep study patients overnight as they sleep to check a wide variety of vital signs. The testing can determine the cause of the sleep disorder and is essential in finding a treatment. Mercy Health Physician and sleep medicine specialist Samir Ataya, MD is the Medical Director of Clermont Hospital’s sleep center and he works together with Mercy Health Physician David Beck, MD, PhD to interpret the sleep studies of patients of Mercy Health’s sleep centers in Anderson Township and Clermont County.

Drs. Ataya and Beck practice from Clermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, located at 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103. For more information, please call 513-735-1701.