This post was written by Diane Parenti, a VSP employee and mobile clinic volunteer at the Sacramento Convoy of Hope event on September 15th. I was fortunate enough to work on this event on behalf of VSP. It was a very hot day with very little shade for those waiting to receive assistance during the …
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VSP Vision Care partnered with NBA Sacramento King’s player Tyreke Evans to adopt his hometown of Chester,Pennsylvania and provide free vision services valued at up to $1 million per year to low-income residents without vision coverage. From September 24 – 28, VSP’s 45-foot-long, state-of-the-art mobile eyecare clinic traveled around Chester providing 130 uninsured residents with …
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Today is World Diabetes Day. Each year on November 14, the International Diabetes Federation engages millions of people around the world in hopes to draw attention to diabetes. World Diabetes Days falls in American Diabetes Month, which we wrote about last week, but reaches more than 160 countries worldwide. The focus of the campaign for …
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During the large free health clinic event VSP recently participated in at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, we had the pleasure of working alongside a number of optometry students from Southern California College of Optometry (SCCO) who were volunteering their time and services. One student, Aaron S., sat down with me on Friday to share a …
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In one of the largest outreach events that VSP has participated in to date, we had the incredible opportunity to work for a day alongside Dr. Oz, two-time Daytime Emmy® Award-winning host of the Daytime Emmy® Award-winning “The Dr. Oz Show”, and vice-chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University (that’s a mouthful isn’t it?). …
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At least 130 people were killed and more than 900 injured during last week’s tornado in Joplin, MO. VSP Mobile Eyes headed there right away and our mobile clinic Eyenstein and staff have been set up at Missouri Southern State University since Monday. With the help of VSP’s network of local eye doctors like Dr. Jeffrey …
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Check out this great clip from the University of Alamaba Optometry School (UAB) on how our Mobile Eye Clinic “Eyenstein” helped tornado victim regain sight.
After the devastating storms that plagued the South in late April, VSP Mobile Eyes set its sights on helping the affected residents see clearly again. A disaster response team of VSP employees headed to Tuscaloosa, AL, where hundreds of homes were destroyed. Our fully equipped, 45-foot mobile eye exam clinic, Eyenstein, enabled us, in partnership …
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VSP is actively conducting outreach to assist those affected by the tornadoes, flooding and severe weather that devastated numerous Southern and Midwestern states. VSP Mobile Eyes is in Tuscaloosa, AL with Eyenstein, our mobile clinic in partnership with Transitions Optical. Working with the local Red Cross chapter, and with the help of University of Alabama Birmingham Optometry students …
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The 2011 Eye on Diabetes Campaign kicks off the four-state tour in Phoenix, Arizona this week. In partnership with the Arizona Optometric Association, Phoenix Chapter of the American Diabetes Association and VSP network doctors, we were able to provide free eye exams, glasses and diabetes screenings to the underserved in Phoenix. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer …
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