Healthy Eyes Healthy People ®: Mobile Sight Saving and Eye Health Education Program

The goal of this program is to bring important refractive and glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and cataract screenings to ethnic and diverse populations of Camden City, New Jersey which has been ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau as the fourth poorest city in the nation. Camden City has a population of 80,000. The objective of this program is to bring vital eye health and vision screening and follow-up comprehensive examination services to 700 adults and children at risk for vision impairment due to refractive errors and glaucoma. It is anticipated that the Mobile Vision Clinic will visit 30 Hispanic and African churches and other community service organizations; bring screening services to approximately 700 residents; bring follow-up comprehensive eye examinations to 300 residents; provide prescription eye wear and glaucoma treatment services to approximately 200 residents. This project is a continuously operating program. The South Jersey Eye Center (SJEC) will evaluate its patient outcomes on a qualitative and quantitative scale. For the quantitative evaluation, the South Jersey Eye Center uses basic excel spreadsheets and a customized Access database to capture and quantify statistical, demographic and diagnostic information. Data is entered on an individual level and quantified based on criteria designated by both SJEC and its funding partners (i.e. number of examinations, residential market of clients, diagnosis, gender, ethnicity, age, etc.). For the qualitative evaluation, the data is measured on daily, monthly and quarterly cycles to determine the quality of services provided.