Sleep Medicine
Sleep Medicine Approximately 80 million Americans suffer from some form of sleep disorder. Sleep disorders often leave you feeling fatigued. If ignored, sleep disorders can lead to severe medical conditions including heart failure, stroke or even heart attack. Getting a Good Night’s Sleep More than 100 million Americans of all ages fail to get a […]
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Sleep Medicine
Approximately 80 million Americans suffer from some form of sleep disorder. Sleep disorders often leave you feeling fatigued. If ignored, sleep disorders can lead to severe medical conditions including heart failure, stroke or even heart attack.
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
- More than 100 million Americans of all ages fail to get a good night’s sleep.
- Two out of every 100 women and four out of every 100 men have a sleeping disorder.
- Half of all people age 65 and over experience twitching in the legs and arms during sleep.
- Seventy percent of caregivers who decide to institutionalize an older person cite sleep disturbances as factors in their decision.
- An estimated 30 million adults snore.
- Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms of depression at any age.
- Not getting enough sleep has been linked to many long-term diseases and conditions
Sleep studies in a home-like environment
The LMH Health Sleep Center specializes in diagnosing and treating people with sleep disorders in a home-like environment. As a patient, you generally begin your stay between 9 and 10 p.m. and complete the study by 6 or 7 a.m.
You will wear painless monitoring equipment while sleeping and be monitored all night by a sleep technician. The sleep technician will assist you and track your oxygen level, heart rate, body positioning, snoring, breathing, sleep stage and muscle movement.
After the test is complete, it is interpreted by a provider who is board-certified in sleep medicine.
Sleep studies at home
If appropriate, you have the option to have a study conducted while in the comfort of your own home. The LMH Health Sleep Center will provide a device to be taken home and instructions on use.
The device is worn while sleeping and is later returned to the sleep lab where the data will be interpreted.
Other sleep-related conditions we treat?
- Sleep apnea
- Restless legs syndrome
- Heart failure
- Chronic pain
- Mental health problems
- Medicines and other substances
Meet Our Care Team
Jeremy Strom, MD
Pulmonology
Jeremy Strom, MD, earned his undergraduate degree at Graceland College in Lamoni, IA, and his medical degree at the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies. He completed his internal medicine and pediatrics residency and a pulmonary/critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care.
Lida N. Osbern, MD
Pulmonology
Dr. Osbern received her internal medicine training at the University of Kansas Medical Center. During her internship and residency, she annually received the Outstanding Intern/Resident Award. Medical students honored her with the Jayhawker M.D. Resident Teacher Award. She received the American Lung Association Fellowship Award annually during her pulmonary fellowship at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake. Dr. Osbern is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Physicians. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine.
Vance Burns, MD
Pulmonology
Medicine wasn’t always the career path that Vance Burns thought he’d follow, but whatever he did, he wanted to be in a career where he met people.
“I grew up on a farm and I wanted to work in a field where I could combine meeting people with fixing things. I am blending science, humanities and the arts, and I want to stay connected to people and patients. Those connections are important.”
Dr. Burns was serving in the United States Air Force on September 11, 2001, and was soon deployed overseas. That experience helped solidify his interest in pulmonology.
"During that time, I was working as an internal medicine doctor. Part of that was running ventilators and life support, working with combat wounded and critically ill people. After I got home, I pursued a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Kansas.”
Why should patients get care at LMH Health? Dr. Burns said that’s easy – it's a health system where your providers know you.
“As a patient, I want to go someplace where they know me by memory, not what’s typed on my chart. LMH Health is just the right size. When there’s a place that’s too big, you start to lose connections. It it’s too small, you start to lose technical ability. LMH is just the right mix of both.”
