St. Francis Sleep, Allergy & Lung Institute

The institute covers pulmonology, sleep medicine, allergy and immunology, and critical care medicine. Dr. Averill and the team treat conditions including COPD, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, sleep apnea, insomnia, allergic rhinitis, and food allergies. The practice also offers medically supervised weight loss and smoking cessation programs.

St. Francis welcomes patients ages five and older. Dr. Averill evaluates and treats children and adults across the full range of respiratory, sleep, and allergy conditions the practice addresses.

Yes. St. Francis offers same-day appointments. The practice's personalized care membership program also provides same-day and next-day access with minimal wait times.

Yes. The practice offers home visits. The personalized care membership program includes home and hospital visits as part of its benefits.

St. Francis offers a personalized care membership program with a much smaller doctor-to-patient ratio. Members receive same-day and next-day appointments, minimal wait times, comprehensive visits, home and hospital visits, and direct access to the physician via cell phone.

Yes. The Joint Commission accredits the St. Francis sleep study center. The center features comfortable sleeping rooms with home-like amenities and performs full polysomnography, CPAP titration, and multiple sleep latency testing.

St. Francis performs a comprehensive set of diagnostic procedures in-house. These include pulmonary function testing, spirometry, lung volume and diffusion capacity measurement, methacholine challenge testing, bronchoscopy, allergy testing, patch testing, and a full suite of sleep studies.

Yes. The institute runs ongoing clinical trials as part of its identity as a clinical research center. These trials keep the practice at the forefront of treatment advances across pulmonary, sleep, and allergy medicine.

Yes. St. Francis serves as a teaching site for new physicians. Residents, interns, and fellows receive in-depth training at the practice.

St. Francis maintains a chapel for prayer and contemplation on-site. The practice also operates a food pantry open to patients and the general public. Dr. Frank Averill and Rose Averill co-founded Footprints Ministry, a non-profit that distributes new shoes to homeless and needy children.