Photo caption: From left, Glenda Abbate (Forum Board Member), Anne Hilmer (Forum Board Member), Homise Johnson, Patty Kearns (Chair, Forum on Women's Health) , Sally Lovern (Forum Member), Dr. Arlanna Moshfeghi, and Mike Kelley.
The Forum on Women’s Health partnered with the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to provide vision screening for the children enrolled at the Jack & Jill Children’s Center in Fort Lauderdale. One hundred children visited the Vision Van on October 29, 2007, and received free screenings as part of a series of visits planned by the community partnership.
The Forum is dedicated to helping the families of the Jack & Jill Center, a non-profit organization founded by the Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale that provides child care services for working families, receive quality healthcare. In addition to the screenings, the Forum has facilitated health fairs and health awareness events at the Center in recent months. Since vision plays such an important role in childhood development, academically, socially and athletically, the Forum partnered with Bascom Palmer to provide this important service to Jack & Jill children, who are between the ages of six months to five years. All children should have their eyes examined by their fourth birthday if vision appears to be developing normally, and every two years thereafter. Early diagnosis and treatment of childhood eye diseases may mean better visual results.
Dr. Arlanna Moshfeghi, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the UM Miller School of Medicine, worked with volunteers from the Forum on Women’s Health of the Miller School to provide a basic eye exam to all of the children enrolled at Jack & Jill.
The Forum on Women's Health is extremely grateful to Bascom Palmer and the UM Miller School of Medicine for its commitment to the Forum’s community partnership with the Jack & Jill Children's Center. For more information on the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, click here.
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