A A A
Phone : (305) 825-2020 | Optical : (305) 822-0099
Laser Vision Eye Care Center
Blog

Is it safe to go to my doctor’s appointment during the COVID pandemic?

If you are visiting your doctor’s office for routine eye care or for an urgent need, you may feel nervous about going to your appointment during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Here at Laservision Eye Care Center, we follow strict hygiene and disinfection guidelines, as defined by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. 

We have implemented new procedures limiting close physical contact among people to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus. 

  1. Patients with symptoms of coronavirus—such as fever, cough and shortness of breath—will not be allowed in the office. 
  2. You should wear a mask to your appointment. If you do not have a mask, the eye clinic may provide one for you. 
  3. The clinic may ask you to wait outside, or in your car, instead of in the normal waiting room. This is to protect you, the other patients, and the office staff from possible virus exposure in crowded waiting areas. 
  4. Our office is restricting the number of people that enter. If you do not need someone there with you, please do not bring your driver or companion inside the office to your appointment. 
  5. Our staff will check your temperature to make sure you do not have a fever.
  6. We have installed special plastic breath shields on the slit-lamp machine and phoropter machine used to check your eyes and measure you for glasses. 
  7. Our entire staff wears masks and may wear gloves and goggles or a plastic shield over their eyes. 
  8. We have placed hand sanitizer dispensers throughout the office and chairs have been spaced out to six feet and beyond.
  9. If you have a cough or a fever, or have been in close contact with someone who has these symptoms, you must call the office ahead of time and let us know. If your visit is not an emergency, you will need to stay home. If you arrive sick, you will be asked to go home. If you have an eye problem that must be seen right away, you will be asked to wait in a special room away from other patients. 

Our goal here at Laservision Eye Care Center will always be to provide excellent care for you and your family, while working in a safe environment for all of us.