Tetiana Pylypenko, 74, has been helped immeasurably by the Department of Ophthalmology Patient Navigator Dana McGinnis-Thomas. While Tetiana does not speak English, her daughter Olena Raichenko does. As she related, […]
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Glaucoma and the Role of a Patient Navigator in Vision Care
Dr. Andrew Williams, MD, an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology who specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataracts, called the September 27th Eye & Ear Foundation webinar, […]
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Mission of Mercy 2023
On the first day of the 2023 Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh event, a homeless woman who struggles with vision loss as a result of childhood abuse came to the vision […]
How a Patient Navigator Helped With Transportation
Ryan Summers* has been vision impaired all his life. He has a detached retina in his left eye and has had three cornea transplants. Once he got the UPMC for […]
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