VISION SERVICES
Adults
Vision Outreach™ - Eye Examinations for Underpriviledged Adults
Since the year 2000, Prevent Blindness Georgia has been serving homeless, uninsured, and working poor adults through Vision Outreach, a program that provides basic eye care for Georgia’s neediest. The unique model of taking vision screeners, eye doctors, equipment, ophthalmic technicians, and even eyeglasses on-site to agencies allows us to identify those with eye disease and refer them for further treatment. Over the past ten years, we have identified hundreds of cases of eye disease that, if left undiagnosed, would lead to blindness.
Prevent Blindness Georgia partners with agencies across the state to provide eye care for their clients. To find out more about our adult program, call 404.266.2895. To view a list of our Vision Outreach partner agencies, visit the Partners page of our Web site.
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| Prevent Blindness Georgia provides needy adults with vision services due to the dedication and expertise of local ophthalmologists and optometrists. We appreciate the eye care professionals who have made it a priority to serve the eye care needs of Vision Outreach participants. |
Licensed Opticians Needed
Earn $100 by working four hours a day at Prevent Blindness Georgia clinics throughout the state. If interested, please e-mail your
resume to DeAndria Nichols, Director of Adult Vision Programs, or fax to 404-266-0860.
For more information call 404-399-8893. |
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Vonda Ray Perkins, OD
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New Photos Coming Soon!
Prevent Blindness Georgia Launches
Georgia Retinal Imaging Project
GRIP
Glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, potentially blinding, aging eye diseases, affect many Georgians. Based on statistics from the 2008 Georgia Data Summary: Vision Impairments, prepared by the State of Georgia’s Division of Public Health:
- 5.1 percent of males and 7.2 percent of females who are African-American and over the age of 40 are affected by glaucoma
- 25 percent of Georgia’s African-American women who are over the age of 40 are affected by diabetic retinopathy
- All individuals with type-1 and type-2 diabetes are at risk for diabetic retinopathy and generally the longer they live with diabetes, the greater the chance of suffering damage to the eye from diabetic retinopathy
To combat these aging eye diseases, Prevent Blindness Georgia has launched GRIP, Georgia Retinal Imaging Project, which utilizes new retinal imaging technology to detect glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy and includes an educational component. PBGA Board Member Scott Pastor, M.D., a glaucoma specialist with Eye Consultants of Atlanta, designed the project.
The screenings include a risk assessment, visual acuity test, eye pressure measurement, and a retinal photo which is interpreted by a volunteer ophthalmologist to detect eye diseases. The initial diagnosis can be made without the patient visiting a doctor’s office. The patient is then referred to an eye doctor for confirmation and sight saving treatment.
Prevent Blindness Georgia thanks the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr., Foundation for providing funding for the Nidek Automated Fundus Camera which is used for the retinal photo. |
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