United States

Local Service
The Combat Blindness Foundation works closely within their local community. In a partnership with Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and StyleEyes Optical at UW Health, CBF sponsors a free community eye care clinic each month. PROJECTS Free Community Eye Care Clinic Madison, Wisconsin, USA In October of 2005 and 2006, Combat Blindness Foundation (CBF) sponsored a free community eye care clinic for uninsured and underinsured individuals in conjunction with the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

In 2007, CBF began sponsoring the free community eye care clinic every month. The goal of the Free Community Eye Care Clinic is to provide free primary and secondary eye care to as many uninsured and disadvantaged persons in the Madison and South-Central Wisconsin area as possible. We also hope to create a model for free community eye care clinic programs which can be replicated in other hospitals. In 2007, 62 patients were examined. Of these sixty-two patients, 48 were provided eye glasses donated by Styleeyes Optical of UW Health and 12 patients were referred to UW Hospitals and Clinics for laser surgery or other surgical intervention, which the hospital provided at no charge to the patient. Dr. Suresh Chandra, founder and chairman of CBF, performed the first free surgery to a needy patient.