YOU DESERVE MOORE: EXCELLENT SPECIALISTS, LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGY –
RIGHT IN YOUR COMMUNITY
UPCOMING EVENTS
Education. Physicians from around the world come to Moore and its Foundation to learn. For over twenty years, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (now Salus University) have sent residents and externs to learn from our doctors. Our patient educational programs are among the most extensive of their kind. In addition, our community outreach efforts include free screening programs for eye disease that reach at risk school children, welfare programs, homeless shelters, churches, and hospitals among others. We also promote continuing medical education programs and continuing education programs in our community for family physicians, ophthalmologists, optometrists and specialists in Diabetes. Learn more about education.
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Community service. As true leaders in our field – we at Moore Eye Institute believe that giving back and reaching out to all those in need is critical. Doctors without caring hearts and who treat patients like they are a number are not truly providing the care needed. This patient philosophy extends to both our work in the Delaware Valley and nationwide.. Whether it is a community where critical care is exclusive, or one that is victimized by a tragedy - we are there in every possible way. This is just part of our commitment to those that make up our communities and our our lives - and those who need us most. Click here to learn about our recent community action and involvement.
The comprehensive whole-person approach. “Vision loss is America’s greatest fear. Prevention is the key and in so many disease states like diabetes and glaucoma, patients and their family need to be involved in a treatment plan. We, at Moore, recognize that one treatment approach does not work for every individual.” At times, the patients’ background, family situation, insurance needs and finances, and even culture and faith, all interplay. Why is it that physicians who treat and prescribe the same medicine and do the same surgery get different results with different human beings? Could there not be other components? We, at Moore, support the entire person, whether it be through our visual rehabilitation center, our educational techniques, our support groups or our innovative educational programs and team approach to physicians, hospitals, families, and clergy. Learn more
“Difference among communities, cultures, races and religions must be respected and understood. Doctors must pay closer attention to the special needs of different groups.” “I commend the doctors of Moore Eye Institute for their innovative approach to the care of their patients. I commend them for going beyond what we usually expect of doctors.”
Remarks by the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
Robert N.D. Nix, at a Moore Eye Institute education community eye screening.
Moore - forging partnerships with the universe of medicine. Eye care is leading the way in specialization and advancements. Now, there are eight different fellowships and sub-specialists in ophthalmology because no one general specialist in eyes can truly offer the finest technology and treatment in a variety of disease. Politics and competition is resulting in specialists, such as optometrists and ophthalmologists and other sub-specialists, becoming alienated from each other and often patients are the one who fall victim. You will not find another institute that does more to bridge gaps and create relationships and to create a team approach to the care of your eyes.
Every five years the field of medicine and knowledge keeps doubling and care for patients is increasingly specialized. While this may be a good thing, the ability for all the different specialties to work together and to care for a patient, not as a particular disease or small organ system but as an entire person, is becoming more and more critical. Fellowship training in retina, glaucoma, oculoplastics, cornea, pediatrics, neuro-ophthalmology, comprehensive eye care, and primary eye care are all needed in certain conditions. Unfortunately, the pattern is for specialists to group together and be isolated from other specialists totally unassociated with hospitals. By only associating with their own surgicenters, with eye disease in particular, a vacuum effect is created where each specialist works in their particular state is occurring more and more. Because of this, de-personalization of the human being as just a particular disease state is occurring. All too often, patients don’t just have one disease – they may have diabetes and cataracts, or glaucoma and macular degeneration, all of which is quite common. Both coordination of care and proper identification and treatment of ALL the needed care is the only real answer.
We work closely with optometrists and general ophthalmologists in the community and with our internationally renowned visual rehabilitation center. The Moore Eye Foundation helps to coordinate plans for our patients, but we then take it one step further. Our patients with other health issues often have no private practice to go to – or certainly one that the resources to keep up with the advancing technology. At Moore Eye, virtually all of our practice locations are conveniently located within hospitals and affiliated with some of the best health systems in the Delaware Valley. One of our surgeons is the Director of a hospital-associated surgery center where physicians of all specialties, not just eyes, treat their patients. Another of our physicians was the founder of The Diabetes Center working with endocrinologists, kidney specialists, family physicians and cardiologists. In addition, he was the first Ophthalmologist in America who was also a certified diabetes educator.
At Moore Eye, we feel eye care should not be separated from healthcare, and our offices are located within the hospitals so that we have the flexibility to perform procedures on patients with any health condition. This decision to affiliate with major hospitals helps make it easy for us to treat those who require a hospital setting for their surgery or procedure.
Moore has forged relationships with many health systems. Crozer-Keystone Health System helped in the founding of the Moore Eye Institute. Recently, we have expanded our relationships with hospitals in opening another institute with Community Health System, which is the largest private hospital system in America in one of its leading hospitals, Phoenixville Hospital. In addition, you'll find Abington Memorial Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald, Brandywine, Springfield and Crozer Keystone Health System, in Delaware County as part of our family. To be able to have access to these facilities as well as endocrinologists, renal specialists, and the help of so many hospitals has proven to be a great strength for our patients.
Moore Eye Institute has spared no expense on the newest options for eye health, and made every effort to deliver the finest advancing technology, surgical techniques. This commitment along with our multi-disciplinary approach with all physicians brings a level of caring without equal. Yes, at Moore, we offer something much, much more – a true vision of caring where instead of competition among sub-specialists and hospitals, we create bridges for the sake of our patients.