Sleep Systems International (SSI) is a consulting firm based in Claremont, California and San Jose, Costa Rica designed to meet the needs of individuals and corporate industry in the areas of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders and their impact on health, daytime functioning, work productivity, absenteeism, and motor vehicle accidents. Providing service in both the United States and Central America, SSI offers clinical, educational, and consulting services with the goal of identifying and treating sleep disorders that cause sleep deprivation, daytime tiredness, and consequential impairment of daytime functioning, often times leading to health problems, such as, diabetes and obesity, decreased work efficiency and productivity, increased utilization of medical services, and problems with alertness, memory function, concentration, and reaction times.
Staffed by health professionals trained in the area of sleep medicine and sleep psychology, SSI is geared toward providing services in both North as well as Central America with the eventual goal of service delivery to South America as well. SSI is equipped to provide education, clinical services, and consultation to large employee groups who are dealing with employees who because of sleep deprivation are frequently deficient in work productivity, absent from work, overrely on sleep medications, or fall asleep while on the job. Sleep deprivation is the number one cause of truck accidents and can cause a company literally millions of dollars in lost time, law suits, and employee disability, the most tragic of which is the loss of life. SSI educates management as well as frontline employees about sleep disorders and provides appropriate interventions that will improve work performance, attendance, productivity, and safety.
Sleep Systems International is in the planning stages of devleoping an outpatient sleep medicine clinic at a local medical school in San Jose, Costa Rica. Consulting has also begun with a veterans organization whose veterans have sleep disorders resulting from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is a medical condition common to combat veterans with a high incidence of sleep disorders, particularly insomnia. Most rely on alcohol, prescription medications, or illicit drugs to optimzie sleep. Unfortunately, these short term measures only create long term difficulties and, sometimes, leads to death. Finally, SSI plans to develop sleep education and intervention programs for large employment groups in Costa Rica where sleep deprivation presents as a causal basis for productivity declines as well as accidents and deaths.
Staffed by health professionals trained in the area of sleep medicine and sleep psychology, SSI is geared toward providing services in both North as well as Central America with the eventual goal of service delivery to South America as well. SSI is equipped to provide education, clinical services, and consultation to large employee groups who are dealing with employees who because of sleep deprivation are frequently deficient in work productivity, absent from work, overrely on sleep medications, or fall asleep while on the job. Sleep deprivation is the number one cause of truck accidents and can cause a company literally millions of dollars in lost time, law suits, and employee disability, the most tragic of which is the loss of life. SSI educates management as well as frontline employees about sleep disorders and provides appropriate interventions that will improve work performance, attendance, productivity, and safety.
Sleep Systems International is in the planning stages of devleoping an outpatient sleep medicine clinic at a local medical school in San Jose, Costa Rica. Consulting has also begun with a veterans organization whose veterans have sleep disorders resulting from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is a medical condition common to combat veterans with a high incidence of sleep disorders, particularly insomnia. Most rely on alcohol, prescription medications, or illicit drugs to optimzie sleep. Unfortunately, these short term measures only create long term difficulties and, sometimes, leads to death. Finally, SSI plans to develop sleep education and intervention programs for large employment groups in Costa Rica where sleep deprivation presents as a causal basis for productivity declines as well as accidents and deaths.
