Hope Alliance is seeking funding for specific optometric equipment needed for our clinics. You can play a critical part in our expansion!
Portable Vision Clinic
Much of our expansion involves equipping a Portable Vision Clinic that can easily be set up for local screenings and clinics around Summit and Wasatch Counties and on our international expeditions. A Portable Vision Clinic will help reduce the waitlist at our current clinics and allow us to see more patients who cannot come to our clinics.
Can you help us to reach our goal?
Lensometer $2,300 Portable Lensometer $300
A Lensometer is used to determine the exact prescription of a patient’s current glasses.
Community Health Impact
A Lensometer will be used at volunteer service projects to read the prescription lenses of donated eyeglasses. These donated eyeglasses are re-purposed for international use on overseas expeditions. Additionally, the glasses are used in local clinics and screenings to check the prescription on patient eyeglasses to ensure they are correct. We are in need of 3 Lensometers, one of them being a portable Lensometer for use in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Tonometer
A tonometry test measures intraocular pressure (IOP), or the pressure inside your eye, to help diagnose, screen for, and manage glaucoma and ocular hypertension.
$6,000
Community Health Impact
Early detection saves a person’s vision! A Tonometer is the key to detecting glaucoma and ocular hypertension. It is easily transportable for use in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Hand-held portable slit lamp $2,500
Slit lamp $6,000
A slit lamp is used to check the health of the front of the eye and helps the doctor to determine whether or not there are eye infections and or corneal abrasions. It can also detect for signs of glaucoma.
Community Health Impact
A slit lamp serves multiple purposes and is the only way a doctor can detect abrasions and infections of the eye. A hand-held slit lamp is easily transportable for use in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Phoropter
A Phoropter is used to determine the exact prescription for a patient needing new glasses.
$2,000
Community Health Impact
Adding another Phoropter to our Park City clinic will allow us to have a second doctor treat patients, therefore, permitting us to see more patients and cut down on the waitlist.
Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope
A Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope is used to check the fundus and the health of the back of the eye. It also detects conditions such as detached retina or macular edema.
$2,000
Community Health Impact
Early detection of certain eye conditions can save a person’s vision! This piece of equipment is also easily transportable for use in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Welch Allyn Spot
A Welch Allyn Spot enables fast and objective correction for a prescription for glasses. It gives the doctor a comparison for a patient’s prescription on a different piece of equipment.
$8,000
Community Health Impact
This piece of equipment is easily transportable and without a Phoropter, it is the only way a doctor can determine the exact prescription for a patient in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Portable Visual Acuity Projector
This test is used to determine the smallest letters or images you can see on a standardized chart from 20 feet away.
$1,400
Community Health Impact
This piece of equipment is easily transportable and is a more effective way for a doctor to determine a patient’s visual acuity in our Portable Vision Clinic.
Please contact Hope Alliance if you would like to fund the Portable Vision Clinic in its entirety.
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