Sleep Clinic Directory

Editorial Policy

This page explains who is responsible for what appears on Sleep Clinic Directory, which sources we use, how listings are verified, how corrections work, and what we will not claim. The short version: everything here is built from publicly available records, no clinic can pay for placement, pages are editorially reviewed rather than medically reviewed, and anyone can ask us to fix an error. Last updated: November 7, 2026.

Who is responsible

Daniel Whitmore, Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Whitmore — Editor-in-Chief. Daniel Whitmore has worked in online health publishing since 2014, building and auditing public-data directories. He is a writer and editor, not a physician; this site provides information, not medical advice.

Daniel Whitmore holds editorial responsibility for every listing and guide on the site — the sources we choose, the records we publish, and the corrections we make. There is no anonymous editorial board and no borrowed byline: one named person answers for the content.

Editorial questions, corrections, and complaints go to hello@sleepclinicdirectory.com.

Sourcing

Every clinic profile is compiled from public sources. We do not buy private databases and clinics do not pay to be included. The sources we draw on are:

  • the federal NPPES public registry (National Plan and Provider Enumeration System), for organizational and practitioner details;
  • Google Places, for business name, address, phone, opening hours, and the publicly visible rating and review count shown on clinic pages;
  • state licensing records, where a state publishes facility or provider licensing data we can check;
  • information the clinic publishes itself, such as its own website, and publicly available AASM accreditation indicators where a facility holds them.

Editorial guides are written in-house from public health and clinical sources, and every guide points you back to qualified care rather than replacing it. Where a page makes a health claim, it is traceable to a published source; we do not publish claims we cannot source, and we leave a field out rather than fill it with a guess.

Verification

Public records are a snapshot, not a live feed: practices move, phone numbers are reassigned, and services change. Because of that:

  • we record what the public source states at the time of collection, and each clinic page shows when its listing was last refreshed;
  • we do not invent details — no invented hours, insurance lists, services, or accreditations;
  • we never attribute credentials, specialties, or names that the sources do not support;
  • every page asks you to confirm details — hours, insurance, referral requirements — with the clinic directly before you rely on them.

The directory is not a ranking and not an endorsement. No clinic can pay to be listed, moved, promoted, or removed, and we take no commission on appointments.

Editorial review, not medical review

Content on this site is editorially reviewed, not medically reviewed. That means a person checks the wording, the sourcing, and the accuracy of the records against the public data behind them. It does not mean a physician, sleep specialist, or other clinician has reviewed the page.

We do not claim medical review that has not happened. Unless a page names a clinician with verifiable credentials who actually reviewed it, no medical review is claimed. We do not fabricate reviewer names, credentials, board certifications, staff photos, affiliations, or ratings, and we do not attribute text to a professional who did not write it. If a qualified reviewer is engaged in future, they will be named with credentials that can be checked.

Reviews and ratings

Ratings and review counts shown on clinic pages are public Google data, labelled as Google data at the point of display. They are not our ratings, and we do not edit, reorder, or suppress them for a clinic.

Reviews submitted through this site are held in a moderation queue and published only after a moderator approves them. We do not write reviews ourselves, and we do not remove a negative review because a clinic asked us to; a review is removed only if it breaks our rules, for example spam, abuse, or content that is not about the clinic.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong — a phone number, an address, a name, an accreditation status, or anything else — tell us and we will review it. Email hello@sleepclinicdirectory.com with:

  • the clinic name and city, or the URL of the page;
  • what the page currently says and what it should say;
  • an official source for the correction if you have one (a practice website or registry entry helps, but is not required).

The editor checks the request against the underlying source and corrects the record rather than patching only the display. Where a correction changes a substantive fact, we fix it rather than quietly deleting the page, and we will tell you what we changed. A person reads every message, and corrections are free of charge.

Update cadence

Clinic records are refreshed in batches as new public data is collected from NPPES, Google Places, and state licensing sources; the date shown on each clinic page is the last time that listing was checked against source data. Editorial guides are re-read at least once a year, and sooner when a cited source or a treatment guideline changes.

This site is not medical advice

Nothing on Sleep Clinic Directory is medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendation. The directory and its guides are informational. Sleep studies, diagnoses, and treatments should be discussed with a qualified physician, and in an emergency you should contact local emergency services.

Contact

Editorial questions and corrections: hello@sleepclinicdirectory.com. General enquiries: hello@sleepclinicdirectory.com. Our mission and independence statement is on the About page.