Gordon Trucking Implementing Sleep Wellness Program
After a successful pilot program, Gordon Trucking is implementing a nationwide comprehensive sleep apnea screening and treatment program
After a successful pilot program, Gordon Trucking is implementing a nationwide comprehensive sleep apnea screening and treatment program.
The program, being managed by Sleep HealthCenters, is designed to enhance roadway safety by improving the health of commercial drivers through education, diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea.
Gordon TruckingGordon Trucking was founded in 1946 in Pacific, Washington and is today employs more than 1,500 drivers nationwide. The driver screening program is expected to begin before the end of the year.
"Healthy sleep is vital to employee wellness and safety, but for trucking companies, it can be difficult to implement a program for employees who live in different places, are constantly moving around the country, have different primary care physicians and maybe even different health insurance coverage," says Dr. Lawrence Epstein, chief medical officer at Sleep HealthCenters, based in Brighton, Massachusetts.
Sleep HealthCenters works with a network of affiliated sleep medicine providers to serve drivers around the country, guaranteeing that employees will have minimal wait times for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care.
"Our network of sleep specialists and respiratory therapists help the patient select an appropriate treatment and monitor their response to therapy." says Sleep HealthCenters' CEO Paul Valentine, "Our proprietary web-based system, called PAPCenter, allows us to monitor each patient's device utilization even though they may see different therapists while they are on the road in different states. All therapists are licensed in the state in which they treat Gordon Trucking patients, and the clinical standards of care are standardized throughout the program to ensure the patient receives the highest level of reliable and predictable service."
Sleep HealthCenters, based in Massachusetts, has a system of comprehensive sleep medicine centers and clinics. The company currently runs 26 facilities in Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and is affiliated with academic medical institutions such as Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both in Boston.
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