EyeCare Prime® Introduces LensFerry® S Gives Sight
Company to Make Donations Towards Eye Exams for Every Subscription to LensFerry® S
PLEASANTON, Calif., February 21, 2017 — In support of its ongoing commitment to helping provide basic eye care to underserved populations around the world, EyeCare Prime® has partnered with Optometry Giving Sight to introduce its own philanthropic initiative, LensFerry® S Gives Sight.
LensFerry® S Gives Sight operates on a 1:1 donation model to support Optometry Giving Sight in its mission. For eachLensFerry® S subscription, EyeCare Prime® makes a donation to fund projects that provide access to vision care for people in need. To date, five million people around the world have benefitted thanks to projects funded by Optometry Giving Sight.
In December, the LensFerry® team had the opportunity to witness firsthand the impact that school eye health programs can have in underserved communities. In what will now become an annual commitment, the team spent five days in Oaxaca, Mexico, helping to provide eye exams and glasses to more than 1,500 students between the ages of five and 14 as part of the Our Children’s Vision campaign.
“More than 600 million people around the world are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to the eye examination and glasses they need,” said Mark Lindsey, Global General Manager, EyeCare Prime®. “Eighty percent of these people can be treated or cured if only they were provided basic eye care services. Giving the gift of vision is what drives us every day. Practices that offer LensFerry® S to their patients are not only taking steps to increase their annual supply sales, but are also contributing to bringing eye care to those who need it most.”
LensFerry® S is a doctor-friendly contact lens subscription service that enables patients to pay monthly for their lenses—from any major manufacturer, in any modality—and receive automatic deliveries of their lenses directly to their homes. The practice that prescribes the contact lenses and enrolls the patient in the service receives the sales revenue as if the lenses had been paid for in-office.
EyeCare Prime® is a subsidiary of CooperVision, Inc., a long-time partner of Optometry Giving Sight. Over the years, CooperVision’s cumulative support for Optometry Giving Sight has exceeded $2 million.
For more information, visit LensFerry.com.
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About EyeCare Prime
EyeCare Prime is a leading global provider of marketing services created exclusively for eye care practitioners. Our solution combines dedicated experts, strategy, cloud-based patient relationship management/commerce, and digital marketing expertise that enable eye care practices to maximize performance and achieve their vision. EyeCare Prime is a subsidiary of CooperVision. For more information, visit www.eyecareprime.com.
About CooperVision
CooperVision, a unit of The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of monthly, two-week and daily disposable contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism and presbyopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.
About The Cooper Companies
The Cooper Companies, Inc. ("Cooper") is a global medical device company publicly traded on the NYSE (NYSE:COO). Cooper is dedicated to being A Quality of Life Company™ with a focus on delivering shareholder value. Cooper operates through two business units, CooperVision and CooperSurgical. CooperVision brings a refreshing perspective on vision care with a commitment to developing a wide range of high-quality products for contact lens wearers and providing focused practitioner support. CooperSurgical is committed to advancing the health of families with its diversified portfolio of products and services focusing on women’s health, fertility and diagnostics. Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, Cooper has more than 10,000 employees with products sold in over 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.coopercos.com.
About Optometry Giving Sight
Optometry Giving Sight is the only global fundraising initiative that specifically targets the prevention of blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error (URE) – simply the need for an eye examination and glasses. It was established in 2003 by the Brien Holden Vision Institute, World Council of Optometry, and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness as a means of mobilizing support from the global eye care profession and industry to help eliminate the backlog of people who are needlessly blind or vision impaired – currently estimated at more than 600 million worldwide. It is a registered charity in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Ireland, and Italy.