EyeSight Foundation of Alabama was created in 1997 after the sale of the Callahan Eye Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
AREAS OF SUPPORT
ESFA awards grants in the following areas:
- Public education regarding preventive and routine eye care and vision screening
- Eye care for the medically indigent
- Low vision and rehabilitation service
- Improved geographical access to general and specialty eye care services
- Education and training of eye care professionals and scientific investigators
- Research in the prevention and treatment of eye diseases, disabilities or impairment prevalent in Alabama and the development of effective methods of treatment, surgery or rehabilitation
- Basic science research on the visual system