Thank you MPP Dawn Gallagher Murphy for taking the time to come by in-person last week to visit our clinic and see how we are equipped to take care of our community.

We have retinal pictures and scanning technology available in the clinic, as well as slit-lamp microscopes in each room. We can help manage chronic eye diseases from conditions like diabetes, glaucoma, and stroke, and detect general health problems that manifest in the eye before people are even aware of them — which eases pressure on hospital visits and unnecessary referrals to our eye specialists.

Optometrists are doctors trained to handle eye emergencies, and writing medication prescriptions where necessary is already within our scope of practice. If surgery is required, we can triage them quickly and appropriately in collaboration with specialists in our network, without the long wait at the ER.

Thanks MPP Dawn for helping spread the message that “Eye Care is Healthcare!”

Let’s work together to reduce wait times at the ER for everybody!!