VSP Doctors Give the Gift of Time

You can’t read a newspaper or turn on the news without getting inundated with stories about the state of the economy. Job losses, foreclosures, bailouts—all of these forces combine to increase the demand for charitable services even as giving goes down. How can we help? VSP doctors Juan Tienda and Candice Galvan stepped up to [...]

Mobile Clinic Sees Final Hurricane Ike Patient

After nearly two months of providing disaster relief to survivors of Hurricane Ike in Texas, VSP’s mobile clinic saw its final patient in Galveston, Texas on October 28th. Serving Houston and Galveston, the mobile clinic and the 12 doctors who worked aboard it saw 1,198 patients in total. The crew on the ground has informed [...]

Hurricane Ike Relief: VSP in Galveston, TX

After getting into Galveston Island to provide relief services, our mobile clinics team and the Red Cross determined that only one of our clinics would be needed there. The other mobile clinic is currently having some much-needed repair work done and will then proceed with various events that were planned before Hurricane Ike hit. On [...]

Engaging Latino Consumers

One of the greatest things about VSP’s headquarters is its location; California and Sacramento are home to great cultural diversity. Like our community, VSP serves members, clients and doctors in all geographies, regions, cultures and economic situations. That’s why it is imperative that we understand and reflect the communities we serve. And this is increasingly [...]

Not-for-profit healthcare and the importance of tax-exempt status

I’d like to share my thoughts on how tax-exempt status helps not-for-profit healthcare companies deliver the best care to the community. The core mission of a dedicated healthcare organization is to help patients receive the highest-quality care. And not-for-profit healthcare companies are uniquely structured to achieve this vision. Since they have no owners, shareholders, or [...]

VSP to Provide Relief to Ike Victims Through October

Here’s a quick update from the front lines of the Hurricane Ike relief efforts: Galveston Island, one of the areas most severely battered by Hurricane Ike, will soon open up to relief efforts. Currently, our mobile clinic is still serving those in the Houston area, but will join up with the second clinic in Galveston [...]

Hurricane Ike: VSP’s Relief Efforts Continue

VSP’s mobile clinics team continues to help those in need at the disaster recovery center in Houston. The center holds about 1600 evacuees, many of them now homeless. In addition to receiving a hot meal and a place to rest for a night, evacuees are also able to access the medical services offered, including their [...]

Update on VSP Response to Hurricane Ike

The mobile clinic team finished their first day of exams yesterday, seeing as many patients as they could before learning their location was changing. Today the clinic is moving to the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Houston, and will begin seeing patients there tomorrow. The plan is to stay in the greater Houston area for [...]

VSP Mobilizing to Provide Relief to Hurricane Ike Victims

One of VSP’s mobile clinics has arrived in Houston, Texas to provide much needed vision services to those affected by Hurricane Ike. Three VSP doctors who have practices that were damaged will be working with our volunteers aboard the mobile clinic to provide eye exams, glasses and materials, and assist in treating eye injuries caused [...]

VSP Responds to Hurricane Ike

We want to do everything we can to help those affected by Hurricane Ike. We’re working directly with our network of eye doctors and business partners to assess the situation and meet the eyecare needs of all those directly affected by the hurricane. Any VSP member who loses or breaks eyewear, needs contact lens replacements [...]