| November 1992 |
The Misericordia Hospital Started a sleep diagnostics program which was the first centre in Canada to perform portable sleep apnea screening. |
| April 1994 |
The Misericordia Sleep Diagnostics program formed partnerships with other centres including the Grey Nuns Hospital and Stanton Yellowknife Hospital for modem transfer of data and sleep study analysis performed by the Misericordia Hospital. |
| May 1994 |
An article entitled "Objective Sleep Diagnostics with Nasal Continuous Airway Pressure in the Reduction of Apnea and Hypopnea" was written by Mary Ann Holm, RRT (Sleep Diagnostics Clinician) and Shannon Foreman (Respiratory Therapy Student). This article was published in the summer edition of the Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy. |
| March 1996 |
The Misericordia Hospital opened a CPAP Clinic to meet the needs of the patients in our Sleep Diagnostics Program. This was the first clinic in Northern Alberta. |
| June 1996 |
An article written by Mary Ann Holm, RRT on the Misericordia CPAP clinic was published in the Capital Health Connections Newsletter. |
| July 1996 |
An article on the Misericordia CPAP clinic was published in the Sleep Apnea Society of Alberta newsletter, "Snooze News". |
| September 1996 |
The CPAP clinic accepts the first self-referred patient. |
| October 1996 |
The Misericordia Hospital implements the use of two new sleep monitors called the Serena Mix, and the Sandman Elite. These enable the testing of two patients per night. |