SUMMIT HAS FIRST CERTIFIED SLEEP SPECIALISTS IN TENNESSEE

September 11, 2009 – Summit Medical Center is proud to announce that two staff members in the Summit Center for Sleep Health are certified as Sleep Disorder Specialists by The National Board of Respiratory Care. Helen Lois Stanfill, RRT-SDS, CPFT, RPSGT and Donna Lovitt RRT-SDS, RPSGT recently chose to participate in a worldwide program on sleep disorders and therapeutic intervention. They are the first two specialists in Tennessee to be certified Sleep Disorder Specialists. Both Stanfill and Lovitt are registered Polysomnographic Technologists and Registered Respiratory Therapists. 

To learn more about the Summit Center for Sleep Health or to participate in a sleep support group, please call TriStar Medline at 615-342-1919, 800-242-5662 or log onto TriStarHealth.com and click on Summit Medical Center.

Summit Medical Center is a 188-bed regional medical center serving the residents of Davidson, Wilson and surrounding counties. Summit offers a full range of services including emergency, medical, surgical, obstetric, oncology, psychiatric and diagnostic services. The hospital also offers the latest advances in imaging services, including the area’s first hospital based 64-slice CT scanner. For more information, call TriStar MedLine at 615-342-1919, 800-242-5662 or visit TriStarHealth.com and click on Summit Medical Center.