Eye Care Hawaii

Posted on » Wednesday, October 12, 2011

World Site Day!

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Eye Care Hawaii
(808) 935-8887 / info@eyecarehi.com

EYE CARE HAWAII GIVES GIFT OF VISION TO PEOPLE IN NEED

Hilo, HI – October 12, 2011 — Local optometrist, Dr. Grant Miyashiro and Dr. Kristina Dimova of Eye Care Hawaii, is joining the World Sight Day Challenge during the month of October to help give the gift of vision to people in developing countries.

On World Sight Day celebrated in October, Eye Care Hawaii will make a donation that will help provide eye exams and glasses to children in developing countries who can’t see well enough to learn at school, as well as adults who don’t see well enough to provide for their families.

Optometry Giving Sight, the organizer of the World Sight Day Challenge, funds programs that provide eye exams and glasses, trains local eye care professionals and develops vision centers that deliver long-term vision care to people in desperate need. There are 670 million people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they don’t have access to an eye examination and glasses.

We are proud to donate to such a worthwhile cause. It’s easy for us to take good vision for granted, so taking the World Sight Day Challenge is a great way to raise funds to help people who don’t have access to even basic vision care.

We are inspired by stories like that of 18 year old Donglian Lei from a rural province of China – although her blurred vision stopped her from seeing the blackboard, she hadn’t told her teacher as she didn’t want to make a fuss. Caring for her mentally ill father and working the family’s farmland for four hours each day before school, Donglian couldn’t afford an eye exam.

Thanks to a visit from a team of newly trained local eye care professionals and a pair of glasses, Donglian now has the opportunity to fulfill the potential she has already shown in her young life.

Donations will enable Optometry Giving Sight to fund more sustainable programs that provide eye exams and glasses to millions of people in need. Raised funds will be directed to projects in 16 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Just $5 can provide an eye examination and a pair of glasses for someone in a developing country. Eye Care Hawaii is also inviting our patients to make a donation at our practice throughout the month of October.

Optometry Giving Sight guarantees that 85 percent of all funds raised by optometrists and their patients go directly to programs that give sight to those most in need.

Eye Care Hawaii is located at 34 W. Kawailani St., Hilo, HI 96720. Call (808) 935-8887 to schedule an appointment!

For more information about Optometry Giving Sight and the World Sight Day Challenge, visit www.givingsight.org or call 1-888-OGS-GIVE.

About Optometry Giving Sight
Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the World Optometry Foundation, the International Centre for Eyecare Education and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Industry sponsors include CIBA VISION, the Brien Holden Vision Institute, CooperVision, Vision Expo, Wolters Kluwer, First Vision Media Group, Marchon, Vision Source! and AllAboutVision.com. Optometry Giving Sight is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

About World Sight Day
World Sight Day is an initiative of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO); the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and non-government organizations with the shared goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020, in order to give all people in the world the right to sight. This year, World Sight Day will be held on Thursday, October 13.

About the World Sight Day Challenge
The World Sight Day Challenge is a major fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight which is designed to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error – simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses.

Optometrists are invited to participate by:

• Donating their eye exam fees from World Sight Day, October 13 (or any other day in October).
• Making a personal or practice donation.
• Planning a practice celebration and inviting patient donations over the month.

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Posted on » Wednesday, July 28, 2010

We are proud to be part of the InfantSEE program

For several years, Eye Care Hawaii has been a participating provider for InfantSEE, a public health program designed to ensure that eye and vision care becomes an integral part of infant wellness care to improve a child’s quality of life. Under this program,  AOA optometrists provide a comprehensive eye and vision assessments for infants within the first year of life — regardless of a family’s income or access to insurance coverage.

For more information on the InfantSEE program, visit http://infantsee.com/.

Posted on » Friday, June 25, 2010

Happy Anniversary to Us, and mahalo for your kokua!

EYE CARE HAWAI’I BLESSES NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY, THANKS CONTRACTORS

Hilo, HI, May 4, 2010 – Eye Care Hawai’i celebrated its first anniversary at its new facility at 34 W. Kawailani Street. A traditional Okinawan blessing for the new site occurred on May 1, 2010.

The new facility, across from Andrews Gym and Waiakeawaena Elementary School, features improvements and updated, state-of-the-art equipment from the previous Eye Care Hawai’i location. Eye Care Hawai’i Hilo’s leading eye care clinic now has more space for diagnostic equipment, a cutting-edge optical boutique with an interior design featuring native ohia trees, and native Hawaiian landscaping.

The facility’s new equipment includes: a Medmont Corneal Topographer, which measures corneal curvature for disease diagnosis and for Orthokeratology (non-surgical vision correction); an Octopus 300 Pro Perimeter, which measures field of vision for neurological eye and brain disorders (i.e., glaucoma, brain tumors, and other conditions); and an Acuity Pro computerized vision testing suite.

Eye Care Hawai’i worked with GW Construction to develop the environmentally conscious facility, which utilizes solar water heating as well as energy efficient lighting, appliances, windows, glass, and air conditioning system. In the near future, Eye Care Hawai’i will equip the building with solar photovoltaic panels, which will supply all of the power
for the office’s energy needs.

GW Construction was critical in obtaining the proper building permits from the city and for accommodating design changes throughout the project. Due to GW’s hard work  the building was constructed, from grading the property to final inspection, in just nine months.

While the new  facility has been open and in business for one year, Eye Care Hawai’i and GW Construction have recently  completed all the finishing touches on the facility.

At 5:00 p.m. on May 1, 2010, Reverend Earl Ikeda performed a traditional Okinawan blessing, which was chosen to honor the Okinawan heritage of Dr. Grant Miyashiro, the founder of Eye Care Hawai’i.

“Our new facility will help Eye Care Hawai’i continue its tradition of exceptional care and outstanding vision technology for patients in Hilo and beyond,” said Dr. Miyashiro. “We are very excited to use our new diagnostic space to deliver the best eye care on the island and, of course, to continue to extend our legacy of old-fashioned compassionate service. This move is a boon to everyone involved, particularly our patients,” he added.

For more information about the new facility or the blessing, please contact Eye Care Hawai’i office manager Jade Iokepa at (808) 935-8887.