Our Services

Retinal disease has a devastating impact on vision...

and is often a result of delayed diagnosis. In many cases, damage and permanent vision loss can be prevented through early detection and timely treatment. Project Vision was established to improve and advocate for the health and well-being of the people of Hawaii through early detection of retinal eye disease. One of its primary goals is to proactively seek out high-risk diabetic populations and detect signs of retinal disease before irreversible vision loss has occurred. This is especially significant given Hawaii's high incidence of diabetes.

About Our Services

1. PROJECT VISION HAWAII is a mobile retinal screening unit. It is a vehicle for both diagnosis and education about ocular and overall health.

2. On board we conduct a vision screening and take bilateral retina images. The process is completely non-invasive and our participants are not dilated. We have also recently inherited a slit lamp and an auto refractor from the Hawaiian Eye Foundation. The information collected along with the images is used by an ophthalmologist to make recommendations for participants to next see their eye care professional. If you don’t have A PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN OR EYE CARE PROFESSIONAL we can give you options for doctors that accept your insurance in your area.

3. The retina can indicate the health of your body overall. Accompanied by a vision screening our retinal camera can detect macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, ocular vein occlusion, glaucoma suspect, cataract suspect, and many other conditions.

Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, but all of the conditions previously mentioned can also result in decreased vision. We work closely with the American Diabetes Association as a mission to diagnose diabetes non-invasively with the detection diabetic retinopathy.

In Hawaii, Native Hawaiians have more than twice the rate of diabetes as NON HAWAIIANS.

In Hawaii, Native Hawaiians are more than 5.7 times as likely as NON-HAWAIIANS living in Hawaii to die from diabetes.

4. We serve all communities across the island but our primary focus is the underserved. When we visit places like Molokai and Naalehu almost half of our participants are native Hawaiian, many of which have never received an eye exam.