Anderson Regional Sleep Disorders Center Staff Receives Certification

All members of the staff at Anderson Regional Sleep Disorders Center are now certified by the Board of Polysomnographic Technologists. This is a highly sought after achievement, and one that only a few sleep centers across the nation have achieved.

Recently certified staff members are Lexa Karas, Tara Boykin, Amy Jenkins, Renee Warren, Shan Goforth and Kim Litchfield. Jon Atkinson and Brenda Harrison had previously earned the RPSGT credential in 1983 and 2003, respectively.

The Registered Polysomnographic Technologist™ (RPSGT) is an internationally recognized credential representing the highest certification in the field for the health care professionals who clinically assess patients with sleep disorders.

The Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists™ (BRPT) sets the credentialing standards for the RPSGT credential and develops, maintains and administers the Registered Polysomnographic Technologist Examination for Polysomnographic Technologists (RPSGT). The RPSGT ensures that RPSGTs hold the highest level of core knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes.

To become certified as a RPSGT, a technologist must have necessary clinical experience, hold CPR certification or its equivalent, adhere to the BRPT Standards of Conduct and pass the RPSGT credentialing exam.

The BRPT’s credentialing program has grown from eight technologists certified by the first RPSGT administration in 1979 to more than 17,000 Registered Polysomnographic Technologists today. These credentialed technologists have made a commitment to professionalism, competence and ethics by meeting the BRPT standards for certification.

For more information about Anderson Regional Sleep Disorders Center, please call 601-553-6491.

Anderson Regional Medical Center is the largest health care facility in East Mississippi/West Alabama and is home to the most established heart care center and the region’s only comprehensive cancer center.

Picture caption: The following employees are RPSGT certified (from left to right): Lexa Karas, Tara Boykin, Jon Atkinson, Brenda Harrison, Amy Jenkins, Renee Warren, Shan Goforth, Kim Litchfield