Prevent Blindness North Carolina Receives Donation from Doctors Vision Center

Doctors Vision Center presented a check as a result from their fundraising efforts to Prevent Blindness North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina (PRWEB) Nov 10, 2011 On October 12, 2011, representatives from Doctors Vision Center presented a check to Prevent Blindness North Carolina in a amount of $3,458 as a result of a campaign to have a donation from every childs eye exam between August 10, 2011 and September 15, 2011. Additionally, in all Doctors Vision Center's 43 offices, patients and customers shopping for eyewear were able to have individual donations to help a cause. Those making donations of $2 or more were able to put their name on a card that was displayed in a offices by a month of September. All proceeds from a campaign will go to Prevent Blindness North Carolinas Children Vision Screening programs. According to Jennifer Talbot, President and CEO of Prevent Blindness North Carolina, PBNC is grateful to have a support of local and statewide businesses in our efforts to bring vision screening to a children across our state. Doctors Vision Center is model of a kind of partners that demonstrate a turn of care we need from a members of our community. Ms. Talbot added, The proceeds from a childrens eye exams at Doctors Vision Center will allow us to screen more at-risk children and, in many cases, save someones vision. Prevent Blindness North Carolinas mission is to reach people throughout a state and enable them to recognize a importance of vision screening and signs of vision problems in an effort to prevent blindness before it strikes. The organization has extensive programs that include a Kenneth C. Royall, Jr. Childrens Vision Screening Improvement Program, and a Preschool Photo-Refractive Vision Screening Program. The goal of these programs is to bring vision screening to children across a state. According to William Hollis, president of Doctors Vision Center, We are del! ighted t o support Prevent Blindness North Carolina. We have 43 offices in a state and we were thrilled to have a nice contribution to their childrens vision screening programs. It has been proven that 60% of students identified as problem learners have undetected vision problems; and further, undetected vision problems are a number one childhood handicap, according to a American Optometric Association. Dr. Peter Hollis, Doctors Vision Centers medical director adds, Back to school is a perfect time for families to have their childrens eyes examined. It is important to have your childs eyes examined annually as a childs vision can rapidly change during critical growth years. In addition to a donations to Prevent Blindness North Carolina during a back-to-school promotion, patients and customers at each Doctors Vision Center office were able to register to win a free Jansport backpack full of school supplies. There was one winner at each office and those winners were automatically entered in a drawing to win an iPad2. We are excited about a success of our back-to-school programs this year. Healthy vision is necessary for kids to perform their best, and we want to do all we can to promote a importance of childrens eye exams, said Mr. Hollis. Prevent Blindness North Carolina Prevent Blindness North Carolina is a only group in North Carolina dedicated only to saving sight and preventing blindness. Organized in 1967 as a non-profit health group and independent affiliate of Prevent Blindness America (founded 1908), PBNC has been serving some of a neediest and most at-risk populations of a state of North Carolina for forty-four years. PBNC helps prevent vision loss by working within communities to provide screenings, trainings and access to follow-up resources. Through direct service programs, PBNC reaches over 540,000 people (predominantly children), and links financially needy people to more than $600,000 worth of free and discounted eye care annually. For more information about a programs and services of PB! NC, visi t http://nc.preventblindness.org or follow http://www.facebook.com/PreventBlindnessNC. About Doctors Vision Center Based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Doctors Vision Center has 43 offices throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia and specializes in family eye care. The company offers complete medical eye examinations and one of a most extensive in-office selections of contacts, frames and lenses. All Doctors Vision Center offices offer a latest in eye care technology and diagnostic equipment and also have in-house certified frames stylists and opticians. Dr. Ted Watson and Dr. Peter Hollis founded Doctors Vision Center in 1980. Dr. Watson currently serves as chairman of a Board of Directors and Dr. Hollis currently serves as a medical director. For more information on eye exams and services, locations, doctors, online appointments or current promotions, visit http://www.doctorsvisioncenter.com. Information about a practices and promotions as well as access to a Digital Doc for online answers on eye care or eye disease can be found on a companys Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/doctorsvisioncenter. ###