A NOTE TO OUR PATIENTS REGARDING COVID-19
We are following the advice of the California Optometric Association (COA), the Center for Disease Control, and the American Optometric Association. Those groups have advised optometrists to stop providing routine exams and non-essential, non-urgent care. We now have a tentative re-opening date of 5/1/20, but we will continue to monitor the situation and decide when it is safe for everyone to resume normal office hours.
Incomplete list of non-essential, non-urgent conditions:
• It’s time for my routine annual eye exam
• I’m out of contact lenses.
*** In many cases we will be providing a temporary extension on expired and expiring contact lens prescriptions if it is safe and prudent to do so. If you have vision plan benefits we can bill that for you and have the contact lenses shipped to your home or office. If you are running out, please feel free to leave a voicemail. We check it on most days.
*** If you need to your glasses or contact lenses that you already ordered, please leave a message at the main office number.
Incomplete list of of URGENT conditions:
• eye infection
• significant, unusual or dramatic change to vision
• flashes and floaters
• double vision
• eye pain
• lost or broken glasses and you are unable to function without them
If you have an urgent condition, please contact Dr. Gore so that we can decide whether your condition should be seen, and if so, by whom. The office number is: (626) 796-5533. If you get the voicemail and you have an urgent problem, please call our answering service at 888.460.9721; the operator will call Dr. Gore.
We are very sorry that we are not here to provide normal services and can’t wait to be back. In the mean time, we wish and hope and pray that all of you will stay healthy. Take care of yourselves!
We are following the advice of the California Optometric Association (COA), the Center for Disease Control, and the American Optometric Association. Those groups have advised optometrists to stop providing routine exams and non-essential, non-urgent care. We now have a tentative re-opening date of 5/1/20, but we will continue to monitor the situation and decide when it is safe for everyone to resume normal office hours.
Incomplete list of non-essential, non-urgent conditions:
• It’s time for my routine annual eye exam
• I’m out of contact lenses.
*** In many cases we will be providing a temporary extension on expired and expiring contact lens prescriptions if it is safe and prudent to do so. If you have vision plan benefits we can bill that for you and have the contact lenses shipped to your home or office. If you are running out, please feel free to leave a voicemail. We check it on most days.
*** If you need to your glasses or contact lenses that you already ordered, please leave a message at the main office number.
Incomplete list of of URGENT conditions:
• eye infection
• significant, unusual or dramatic change to vision
• flashes and floaters
• double vision
• eye pain
• lost or broken glasses and you are unable to function without them
If you have an urgent condition, please contact Dr. Gore so that we can decide whether your condition should be seen, and if so, by whom. The office number is: (626) 796-5533. If you get the voicemail and you have an urgent problem, please call our answering service at 888.460.9721; the operator will call Dr. Gore.
We are very sorry that we are not here to provide normal services and can’t wait to be back. In the mean time, we wish and hope and pray that all of you will stay healthy. Take care of yourselves!