Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 11, 2005|Volume 34, Number 11

Renovated community Eye Clinic
celebrates with an open house

There will be an open house at and rededication of the Eye Clinic at Hill Health Center at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to celebrate a major renovation, expansion and increased hours of operation at the facility.

Since it was first opened, the clinic has gone from a one day per week operation to a full-time, full-service clinic that provides care for the underserved in the community. It is a cooperative venture with Hill Health Center, Yale's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, the School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and Fair Haven Community Center.

"This is one of the first community ventures on this scale for any clinical department at Yale," says Dr. M. Bruce Shields, the Sears Professor and chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the School of Medicine.

The clinic, located at 400-428 Columbus Ave., is operated by senior Yale ophthalmology residents, each of whom spends a three-month rotation at Hill Health Center, assisted by faculty from the ophthalmology department, community members and Hill Health Center staff. The renovated and expanded facilities, which were made possible by Yale-New Haven Hospital, now include a third examination rooms and additional space for new diagnostic equipment.

The facility not only provides quality eye care for underserved segments of the community, but also provides valuable experience for the Yale residents, says the clinic's medical director, Dr. Susan H. Forster, director of medical studies in opthalmology and associate clinical professor at the School of Medicine and chief of ophthalmology at the University Health Services Center.

"The program not only gives the residents a degree of autonomy as they prepare to go into their practices," says Forster, "but also an understanding of the medical needs throughout our society and how they can best be met."

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