We have three office locations; Miami, Kendall and Doral. The offices provide a comfortable environment for consultations and visits where the patients meet with their doctor to treat their chronic sleep disorders on an on-going basis. Once a patient is diagnosed with a sleep disorder it typically requires life-long treatment. At Sleep Medicine Specialists of South Florida, our comprehensive approach to sleep, is what differentiates us from other practices.
The facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art polysomnography (sleep study) recording systems. All our rooms are comfortable and outfitted with fresh linens and a flat screen TV. The rooms are furnished with queen or full-size beds. We strive to maintain a resort like environment. For the patients’ convenience, there is a bathroom with a large shower.
Our sleep laboratory in the Miami (LeJeune) office opened its doors in 2016 and is fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). The Kendall office, which opened in 2019, is in the process of attaining full accreditation from the AASM. Dr. Edward Mezerhane serves as Facility Director for both locations.
As an office-based sleep center our procedures are highly cost effective in comparison to the same procedures provided at a hospital or outpatient facility. This could represent significant savings to patients’ deductibles, coinsurance and copayments.
What’s being monitored during your stay?
It’s a non-invasive procedure that gives the best results. It is the gold standard in diagnosing sleep disorders.
Why have an in-lab sleep study?
Our registered polysomnography technicians are able to observe your brain rhythms, eye movements, chin movements, leg movements, breathing through your nose, body position, breathing patterns of your abdomen and chest, snoring, oxygen and heart rate. The doctor interprets this data in order to accurately diagnose your sleep disorder.
Our Sleep Lab Services:
DME
As part of our comprehensive sleep center we offer Durable Medical Equipment (DME) billable through some insurance plans. We are licensed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to supply our patients.
Our respiratory equipment services include:
INTERNATIONAL PATIENTS
At Sleep Medicine Specialists of South Florida, we gladly accommodate international patients. If given ample time, our international patient coordinator can assist you in making your appointment with one of our physicians during your time in South Florida. The visits are planned strategically so that you can be seen in office consultation with a physician, have a sleep study done, discuss the results of this sleep study with the doctor, and if necessary, obtain your DME (ie. CPAP device) prior to your return back home. We strive to get all of these steps completed in one business week.
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Sleep Medicine Specialists of South Florida, not only specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, but also focuses on advancing the treatment options available to our patients. Our goal is to be at the forefront of any new sleep disorder diagnostic tools and treatments in order to push our patients’ sleep health forward.
Our clinical research facility specializes in conducting Phase I – IV studies for various sleep disorders. With two locations serving Miami-Dade County, our team includes bilingual physicians, technologists and clinical researchers who are dedicated to patients with all types of sleep-related issues. Our staff is trained in HIPAA, GCP, ICH, and Hazmat. Both facilities are equipped with sleep rooms, examination rooms, laboratories, and secure IP storage rooms.
We work closely with our patients and monitors to ensure there is a high level of compliance with study related procedures as dictated by the protocol and the FDA. Through our studies, patients can play a more active role in their health by gaining access to new treatments while helping to advance medical research.
Our Principal Investigator (PI) is Dr. Edward Mezerhane and our Certified Clinical Research Coordinator is Maria. We are ready to assist our patients in the enrollment process of a clinical research trial if they meet eligibility criteria and after completing informed consent process.
South Florida Sleeps
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to