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Sleep Center

The quality of our
sleep plays a significant role in our
lives.

The Sleep Center at Cookeville Regional Medical Center has solutions for your sleep issues.

An important, restorative process, sleep is critical to your overall general health and wellness. The Sleep Center at Cookeville Regional can help people afflicted by sleep disorders get a good night’s sleep again. Our Sleep Center uses technology to provide diagnosis and treatment of sleep problems, and our trained professionals are dedicated to determining the causes and treatments of specific problems.

Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, snoring and daytime sleepiness are not normal and could represent a potentially life-threatening problem.

If you’re experiencing any of these issues, then you’ve probably noticed how these symptoms are interfering with your daily life and your ability to perform at your best level.

Contact Us

Cookeville Regional Medical Center Sleep Center

100 W 4th St., suite 350
Cookeville, TN 38501
931-783-2753

Cookeville Regional Medical Center Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

145 W. 4th St., suite 201
Cookeville, TN 38501
931-782-2143

Tennessee Lung and Sleep Center

135 W. 3rd St.
Cookeville, TN 38501
931-202-3697

Services Offered

  • The Sleep Center at Cookeville Regional is the largest sleep center between Nashville and Knoxville, staffed with 11 polysomnography technicians.
  • There is a board certified medical doctor and an on-site specialist in sleep disorders at the center.
  • Pediatric sleep studies are also offered.
  • Our center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

Meet the Experts

James Davis, MD

Sleep Medicine

The Sleep Center at Cookeville Regional

David Henson, MD

Sleep Medicine

Cookeville Regional Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Vijay Rupanaguidi, MD

Vijay Rupanaguidi, MD

Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Tennessee Lung and Sleep Center

Luis Urbina, MD

Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Cookeville Regional Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Evaluation, Testing and Treatment

After the initial evaluation, appropriate testing and sleep studies are ordered depending on the particular problems that have been diagnosed. If a sleep test is necessary, a polysomnogram will be scheduled for the patient.

During this process, electrodes (or wires) are attached to different parts of the body — for example, on the head (to determine sleep stages), near the eyes, on the chin and on the legs. The device detects episodes of disordered breathing by monitoring oxygen saturation, breathing efforts and airflow from nose to mouth.

Heart activity and muscle movements are also monitored. Though somewhat inconvenient, polysomnography is painless.

The sleep test requires an overnight stay at The Sleep Center at Cookeville Regional. A technician is present to constantly monitor the patient’s sleep throughout the night.

Depending on the sleep evaluation and/or sleep study, the sleep specialist will make specific recommendations to a patient and his or her doctor.

Treatment varies with the type of sleep disorder and may include sleep education, support groups, medication, surgery or the use of C-PAP, a mask worn over the nose during sleep to aid breathing.