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Article: Sleep disorder business growing rapidly in the Dayton area ; U.S. estimates show 40,000 people suffer from sleep disorders and at least that many more are undiagnosed.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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CENTERVILLE -- Several local hospitals have sleep-disorder
centers, but their beds aren't 59- 1 / 2 feet from the parking lot.
"I measured it myself," said Jerry O'Ryan, the principal owner of
Physician Sleep Diagnostic Centers. With two doctors as minority
owners, it is part of the boom in accredited sleep centers. Counting
hospitals, their number mushroomed from 300 in 1996 to more than
1,500, with outpatient centers growing fastest.
"They're convenient. You don't have the risk of hospital
infections and you won't get treated like a sick person," said
O'Ryan, a respiratory therapist. "There's a little more momand-pop
feel here."
Sleep disorders are increasing, with U.S. estimates of ...