University Of California Irvine Foundation
UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute is Orange County’s premier eye-care provider, offering state-of-the-art ophthalmic services, ranging from routine ophthalmic evaluations to complex medical management and surgical care. Our faculty of internationally rec...
Education and Research
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Irvine, California
The UCI Eye Mobile for Children is essential to overcoming the barriers to much-needed eye care services for the underserved children of Orange County. Recognizing the access barriers to receiving eye care, we provide all services free-of-charge, onsite at the schools, and in multiple languages. Racial and socioeconomic inequities in access to care are also evident across a variety of measures and studies. The economic cost of children’s vision disorders is significant, amounting to $10 billion annually in the United States. Families shoulder 45 percent of these costs—not including the value associated with a diminished quality of life.
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