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Akron Economy, Sleepy Americans, Statehouse Update

Akron is experiencing what a policy study describes as a "troubling decline in economic health."  We'll talk to the Greater Ohio Policy Center and the Knight Foundation about the report and what needs to be done to help move Akron forward.  The Centers for Disease Control says Americans nationwide aren't getting enough sleep.  We'll talk to the city's top sleep doctors about the need to make sleep a priority and not hit snooze on the message that adequate sleep is crucial for good health. 

 

Resources for more information:

Be Well Health Unit Reporting: Sleep

Be Well Special: Sleep, A Wake Up Call

Lavea Brachman, Executive Director, Greater Ohio Policy Center

Kyle Kutuchief, Program Director, Akron, Knight Foundation

Dr.  Dennis Auckley, MD, Assoc. Dir. Div. of Pulmonary, Critical Care/Sleep Medicine, MetroHealth
Dr. Charles Bae, MD, Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center  

Dr. Kingman Strohl, MD, Program Director, Sleep Medicine, UH Case Medical Center

Karen Kasler, Statehouse News Bureau Chief

Leigh Barr is a coordinating producer for the "Sound of Ideas" and the "Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable."