support of services provided at both the college and its community partners to meet the vision and eye care The grant will also support an evaluation study of the impact of vision care on student learning. “Another important new initiative is to increase community awareness of the importance of vision care and the availability of this care, regardless of ability to pay, at the Illinois Eye Institute.” Since 2011, the foundation has funded ICO at the level of $100,000 or more per year, in support of ICO

The clinic at Princeton Elementary School on the city’s South Side was established in January 2011 as part of Chicago Vision Outreach, a program that provides charitable eye health and vision care to Chicago It is the first known model in the nation to deliver eye care services year-round to an urban school ICO students provide much of the clinical care under the supervision of experienced optometrists, and Previously undiagnosed glaucoma was found in two cases.

corporation will be honored for excellence and leadership in education, philanthropy, research and patient care Wisconsin, which contracts vision care to HMO’s and IPA’s.  He is the president and owner of Bright Eyes Family Vision Care, in Tampa, Florida, as well as a leading Messner is the vice president for patient care services at ICO and executive director of the Illinois selected as the Key Legislative Person of the Year award in 2006 and the Optometrist of the Year award in 2011