Outpatient care includes family practice, acute care, and multiple specialty clinics. A command web site with more specifics is on the way. In this new structure, optometry falls in the Consultative Care Group as a member of the Eye Team. The team is located together. Additionally, two New England College of Optometry students are assigned for three month rotations throughout the year, being preceptored by the staff optometrists.
Patients are a broad mix of ages and beneficiary types.
The ophthalmologist traditionally has been the senior member assigned as Department Head. The senior optometrist has been the Division Officer for optometry. Under the new organization, those titles are not used in a functional way but may be utilized for the purposes of Fitness Reporting to maintain consistency with other Navy facilities. In 1996, the Eye Team implemented evening optometry clinic. Two corps staff work each of these evenings also, as well as optometry students one night a week.