In honor of National Glaucoma month, the Doctors and Staff at Torrington Eyecare will be offering free Glaucoma Screenings on Saturday January 28th 2012 from 10AM to 2PM. No medical insurance or payment is required to participate in the screening.

Please note that the screenings are first come first served and participants in the screener will be required to fill out a waiver of liability/privacy.

This is our way of giving back to OUR COMMUNITY which has been so great to us for over 50 years!

Please note that as of January 1st, 2012 Torrington Eyecare will be instituting a new cancellation/no show policy. The details of which are listed below:

All appointments that are not cancelled or rescheduled within 24 hours of your appointment time will incur the following fees:

1st No Show/Late Cancellation – $35
2nd No Show/Late Cancellation – $40
3rd No Show/Late Cancellation – $50 and dismissal from our practice.

Please understand that this new policy is in place because insurance companies do not pay us for visits that are missed.

If you are wearing Avaira Contact lenses by Coopervision, please take the time to read the following notice and visit the cooper website for more specific info to check your lot number to see if you are included in the recall.

“Nearly five million contact lenses shipped to consumers are being recalled by CooperVision Inc. in an expanded action that includes a second Avaira brand that may be contaminated with silicone oil residue and linked to blurred vision, eye injuries and severe pain.” Company “officials on Tuesday added Avaira Sphere contact lenses to an August recall of Avaira Toric lenses because certain lots failed to meet quality standards because of the oil residue, according to a press release from the company’s Pleasanton, Calif., office.” This latest action “comes after the federal Food and Drug Administration issued a Class I warning about the products and pressured the company last month to increase public notice about the recall of nearly 780,000 Avaira Toric lenses.”

Full details can be found here : http://www.coopervision.com/recall

A 20 second laser procedure that may change eye color from brown to blue is currently undergoing clinical trials. It will be many years before we see this procedure become a widely used technique, but it does raise the question “what will they think of next?”

Read more about this new technology here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15596885

Our power has returned and we will re-open tomorrow at 11am. If you had an appointment scheduled for Today (Tuesday Nov. 1) we will call you tomorrow to reschedule. Thank you and again we hope everyone is staying safe and warm in this tough time.

Our office will be closed on Tuesday Nov. 1 due to widespread power outage. If you have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow our staff will call you to reschedule it as soon as our power returns. From all the staff and doctors, please stay safe and warm if you are still without power!

Please note that Torrington Eyecare will be closed September 13, 14, and 15th. We will re-open on Friday the 16th as regularly scheduled.  If you had an appointment scheduled during these days and our staff has not contacted you to reschedule, please call our office at 860-482-4439.  Thank you and we apologize for any inconvenience.

As the cleanup and utility crews continue to make the rounds throughout our state, we understand that you may be without power or access to your appointment this week.  If you have an appointment scheduled, please call if possible to reschedule if necessary. Our office number is 860-482-4439. We have electricity and we were fortunate to not have any damage to our building or office infrastructure, so we will be seeing patients as regularly scheduled tomorrow starting at 8:30am.

If you are still without power, please stay safe, grill outside, and enjoy the beautiful weather over the next 3 days. If you need somewhere to charge your cell phone, please stop in at the office and we would be happy to free up a plug for you!

Hurricane Irene has officially hit our state. Luckily it is not as bad as it could have been. We have not been able to assess the damage to our practice yet, but we will keep you updated on any closings. If you have an appointment this Tuesday Aug. 30th, our staff will call you if we need to reschedule.

Thank you, and stay safe! 

Please note the following office hour changes for the week of July 11-17 2011:

Although our office is typically closed on Mondays, we will be open on Monday July 11th 2011 from 8:30-5:00.

Although our office is typically open on Wednesdays, we will be closed on Wednesday July 13th 2011 for staff training.

Although our office is typically open on the third Saturday of the month, we will be closed July 16th.  We will however be open on Saturday July 23rd.

If you currently have an appointment scheduled for Wednesday the 13th or Saturday the 16th, please call our friendly staff at 860-482-4439 to reschedule…

Thank you for understanding and we apologize for any inconvenience.