As the situation surrounding COVID-19 evolves, the team at Vancouver Sleep Center is doing everything possible to ensure the health and safety of our patients and staff. These are the precautions we are taking at the current time.
Physician/ Physician Assistant appointments:
We offer both in-clinic and telemedicine appointments. We would recommend using the Telemedicine option if you have a smart phone/ laptop with camera/ Ipad type tablet computer.
Please visit our Telemedicine page.
Medicare allows for telemedicine at the current time.
All new PAP machine setups will be performed virtually.
Home Sleep study:
Normal Home Sleep Apnea testing has resumed.
Visit http://www.vansleep.net/hsat/ to watch the video on using the home sleep study.
In lab PSG (sleep study):
We have resumed in lab testing. VSC exceeds all CDC recommendations for testing during the COVID pandemic. Here is what you can expect when coming in for these studies.
- Masking is required to enter the building.
- Once you are setup with the testing equipment, please feel free to take off your mask. No mask is needed while you sleep.
- Your night sleep tech will have a mask on while they work with you.
- All the air in your room is filtered using N95 level filtration and treated with UV light at least 4 times per hour.
- All surfaces are wiped with virucide and then treated with UV light.
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