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- EIN 31-0849855
- (614) 545-2057
- 262 Neil Ave Ste 140 Columbus OH 43215-7308 USA
- www.coleb.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Disabilities, Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments Research, Health
Mission: To restore, improve, and preserve vision by connecting eye donors with transplant patients; educating physicians; and enhancing eye research through quality eye banking services.
Programs: During fiscal year ending 2017, more than 629 patients benefitted from the eye bank's work, receiving corneas for sight-restoring transplants and other donor eye tissues for surgeries to improve vision and treat eye diseases
the eye bank's professional education program serves over 40 area hospitals, where designated staff are trained to discuss eye donation with the families of identified potential eye donors. The eye bank provides professional continuing education credits to nurses, social workers, and chaplains.
the eye bank provided donor eyes for research.