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Bring your old glasses—yep, the ones you never wear—into a Kaiser Permanente optical shop and we’ll give them a second life helping improve eyesight for someone in need. Find a location.

All types of eyeglasses and sunglasses are needed, both prescription and nonprescription. Reading glasses also are very useful.

Kaiser Permanente Eye Care and its patients have supported the efforts of VOSH/International, a volunteer organization committed to improving eye health in underprivileged countries, and the Lions Club of Eastern Washington, committed to doing the same here at home.

Since 2007, the Kaiser Permanente Washington residencies in Primary Care Optometry* have enabled optometric graduates to work within one of the largest eye care practices in the region. Our goal is to provide training within an active clinical setting, so that residents gain the skills necessary to be tomorrow’s primary eye care clinicians.

Residents receive advanced clinical training and experience in diagnosing and managing ocular health and visual function, as well as identifying and treating eye disease. The yearlong program affords residents the opportunity to practice within Kaiser Permanente’s integrated, team medicine approach to patient care—a model that has received national recognition.