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PATIENT CARE
Cahaba Valley Health Care: Vision Program
- $10,000 - continuation: To bring vision care to the indigent
and Hispanic populations of Shelby and Jefferson Counties. *
Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital: Indigent Care - $400,000 - continuation:
To provide indigent patient care services to the community and
the state.
Eye Care Alabama: Outreach Project - $10,000 - continuation: To
provide indigent patient care services to the underserved adult
population in areas with limited access to care. As part of the
Black Belt Eye Care Consortium, participates with volunteer ophthalmologists,
optometrists, clinical technicians, residents, and laypersons to
deliver eye care to an at-risk population. *
Impact/An Alabama Student Service Initiative: Focus First - $20,000
- continuation: For core operating support to continue to expand
vision screening services for children. Focus First takes undergraduate
and graduate students, along with trained community volunteers,
into Head Start and daycare centers to screen children in all 67
counties across the state. Children who are identified as having
a potential vision problem will receive subsidized follow-up care
as necessary through Sight Savers America. *
Lakeshore Foundation: Operation Night Vision Recreation and Sport
Clinic for Military Personnel - $35,000 - continuation: To fund
a four-day camp for fifteen injured servicemen; for many, this
is their first opportunity to take part in recreation or sports
since experiencing combat injury and loss of vision. The outcomes
from this camp include improved confidence, self-esteem and courage,
and an increased willingness to use adaptive equipment and to try
new activities, all of which lead to more fulfilling, productive
and energized lives as these servicemen adjust to their injuries.
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Lakeshore Foundation: Sports and Education Camp for Blind or Visually
Impaired Youth and Young Adults ages 8-18 - $15,000: Like the program
for injured military personnel, this camp uses sports and recreation such
as kayaking, water skiing, goalball, swimming, rock climbing, and judo to
improve confidence, self-esteem and courage for children with visual impairments,
and increases their willingness to use adaptive equipment and to
try new activities, all of which lead to more fulfilling, productive and
energized lives as these children learn to cope with their vision loss.
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Sight Savers America: Pediatric Follow-up Eye Care - $100,000 and
$30,000 - continuation:
To support vision screening follow-up activities, which include
eye exams, glasses, treatment, etc., to children identified through
various statewide vision screening efforts to ensure that Alabama’s
children view the world with their best possible vision. Sight Savers also
provides rehabilitation services for blind and legally blind children, and
through its low vision program places CCTVs and other devices in the homes
of visually impaired children in indigent or low-income families. $100,000
of this grant is from Crippled Children’s Foundation as a gift designated
for Sight Savers. *
UAB
Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation: Operating Support - $65,000
- continuation: To support basic operating expenses for this program
that adds to the recognition our area is receiving as a leader in
low vision efforts. The Center is a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation
center created to provide state of the art care for persons with
vision impairment not correctable with glasses, contacts, or other
treatments.
UAB
Department of Ophthalmology: Mental Health Services for Persons and
Families with Visual Impairments - $25,000: To develop and implement
psychoeducational-based support groups and innovative health promotion-based
efforts designed to foster knowledge about eye health, promote quality
of life, safety, independence, and motivation for low vision rehabilitation.
UAB School of Optometry: Indigent Care - $15,000 - continuation: To defer costs of frames and lenses for indigent patients who receive exams at no cost through the UAB Eye Care Clinic.
UAB
School of Optometry: Community Eye Care Equipment - $40,000:
Towards the costs of equipment to be used at the UAB Community Eye
Care Clinics housed at three Jefferson County Department of Health
locations. This portable hand held ocular fundus camera and nerve fiber
layer analyzer will improve the eye care available at this underserved
population’s
medical homes.
UAB School of Optometry: Black Belt Eye Care Consortium/Adult Eye Care - $50,000: To support adult eye care clinics in five counties in the Black Belt region as prevention and intervention methods of addressing lack of accessibility for eye health. In collaboration with Consortium members including the UAB School of Optometry, UAB Department of Ophthalmology, Eye Care Alabama, UAB Rural Alabama Diabetes and Glaucoma Initiative, and Alabama Lions Sight Conservation Association, patients will be recruited, receive dilated eye exams, and treatments and glasses as prescribed. Detailed records will be maintained in a database for comprehensive follow-up services and to produce an outcome based measurement of the program.
UAB School of Optometry: Preschool Peepers - $30,000 - continuation: To support this vision screening effort to reduce the number of preschool aged children with untreated eye and vision problems. Screenings target amblyopia and its risk factors in preschool children in the Birmingham community, with some outreach into other parts of Jefferson and Shelby counties.
United Cerebral Palsy: Health and Wellness Center - $10,000 - continuation: To support the vision component of the Comprehensive Health and Wellness Center for Persons with Severe Disabilities, where adults and children in this vulnerable population receive vision services provided by the UAB School of Optometry. More than 50 percent of the adults served by UCP wear corrective lenses, and many have serious visual conditions. About 50 percent use communication devices; without vision services they cannot properly use these or other technology devices that significantly improve the quality of life. *
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