Available during office hours and from on-call service
When emergencies arise…
During normal office hours, we make every effort to accommodate emergency patients with any ocular emergency such as red or painful eyes, ocular foreign bodies, and those with sudden vision changes or flashes of light. New patients are very welcome. If your health insurance plan requires authorization from your primary care physician, please let us know in advance to help expedite your office visit.
If it is after hours and you currently are not a Bishop Eye Associates patient then you should contact a hospital emergency room closest to you. For current patients of Bishop Eye Associates, the on–call doctor will handle emergencies. Just call the emergency number provided on any of our office answering machines. At Bishop Eye Associates, we take emergency vision and eye care needs VERY seriously.
So if you find yourself with any of the following or other eye emergencies, please do not hesitate to call us immediately –even if it happens to be after-hours or on the weekend:
- New-onset red, painful eye
- Foreign body in the eye
- Cuts or scratches in and around the eye
- New floaters or flashes of light
- Loss or acute change of vision
- Sports injuries
Read more about the following eye injuries:
