We want to be able to reach the entire state and help children have good vision. The pediatric eye clinic at VUMC presently is able to accommodate about 4,000 children a year. The Lions Clubs and VUMC have a 30-year history of collaborating to provide eye care to indigent adults through the Middle Tennessee Lions Sight Service as well as the Lions Eye Bank, which provides corneal tissue for transplantation. The extension of this partnership to pediatric eye care is a natural progression, O'Day said. He also said the continued delivery of proper vision care is vital to a child's future.
Good vision is central to the quality of life.
Nowhere is this more evident than in children. Nancy Humphrey Members of the newly chartered Brentwood Lions Club and an international Lions Club officer toured the future site of the Tennessee Lions Eye Center at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital last week. The group joined Dr. Denis M. O'Day, George Weeks Hale Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, for a tour of the area, which is currently under construction. They also visited the current pediatric ophthalmology area in the Medical Arts Building. We are looking forward with great anticipation to the opening of this wonderful facility.