A Tour of the IU School of Optometry Patient Care Facilities

The IU School of Optometry has five clinics to provide full-service vision care to the people of Indiana and elsewhere while training future eye care professionals.

Atwater Eye Care Center

The Atwater Eye Care Center (AECC) is housed on the second floor of the School of Optometry at 800 East Atwater Avenue on the south side of the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. The Optometry Building is a five-story limestone building which also contains classrooms, research labs, and offices. Patients may park behind the building and in the lot across Atwater Avenue from the school.

Optometry Building

Parking

Patients will find the reception area of the Atwater Eye Care Center on the second floor as they exit the elevator or stairs in the middle of the building.

AECC reception area

Just off the reception area is the eyewear center with its large selection of frames. The knowledgeable staff is trained to assist patients in getting the spectacles that are best for them. They work with the latest technology--such as a computerized video system that allows patients to view various frames on pictures of themselves and equipment to send frame and spectacle information electronically to the ophthalmic laboratories.

AECC eyewear center

*Special* mirror for virtual frame selection

In addition to the eyewear center, the east wing of the clinic floor contains the pediatric/binocular vision clinic and the primary care clinic.

A separate waiting area for pediatrics has been designed with our young patients in mind. Likewise, the seven exam rooms are decorated and designed for children. There is also a vision training room.

AECC pediatrics seating room

Pediatrics exam room

Vision training room

The other half of the east wing of the Atwater Eye Care Center is the primary care area with 14 standard exam rooms and special testing rooms for visual fields, ocular photography, and other special tests.

AECC primary care exam room

The east end of the floor also has a conference room.

AECC conference room

The contact lens clinic and the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research are found in the west wing of the Atwater Eye Care Center.

The contact lens clinic consists of a reception and patient seating area, 8 exam rooms, a room for the resident, and an inspection laboratory.

AECC contact lens patient seating

Across the hall is the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research (BCOR) where patient-based research is conducted. Much of the specialized equipment is also used by the Atwater Eye Care Center specialty services.

BCOR exam room

BCOR special testing equipment

BCOR conference room

Community Eye Care Center

The Community Eye Care Center (CECC) is on the west side of Bloomington at 803 North Monroe Street. All the patient areas are on the ground level and parking is conveniently located around the building.

The Community Eye Care Center

The Community Eye Care Center contains low vision, ocular disease, sports vision, and primary care clinics. Like the other eye centers, it has an extensive eyewear center.

CECC reception area

CECC children's room

CECC eyewear center

The ocular disease clinic has all of the latest diagnostic and treatment equipment including ocular photography, retinal tomography, and visual fields.

Ocular disease clinic equipment

More ocular disease clinic equipment

There are 14 exam and special testing rooms, 2 conference rooms, staff areas, and offices.

CECC conference room

Additional conference room

CECC contact lens supply room

Indianapolis Eye Care Center

The Indianapolis Eye Care Center (IECC) is on the canal in Indianapolis at 501 Indiana Avenue in the 500 Place Building. It is close to the IUPUI medical center complex.

500 Place Building

There is a reception area, 14 exam rooms, eyewear center, special testing rooms, and offices. The Indianapolis Eye Care Center has an active low vision service as well as contact lens, pediatrics, binocular vision, and ocular disease services. It maintains the latest diagnostic technology--including ocular photography, retinal tomography. and corneal topography equipment.

IECC reception area

IECC patient seating

Equipment for special testing

In addition, the Indianapolis Eye Care Center houses the Bell Optical Laboratories Learning Center.

Bell Optical Laboratories Learning Center

IU Eye at Carmel

The IU Eye at Carmel optometry clinic is in the IU Medical Group building in northern Indianapolis. The optometry clinic operates in conjunction with the IU Department of Ophthalmology. Numerous other IU Medical School specialty practices are housed in the IU Medical Group building.

IU Medical Group building

The clinic has 3 exam rooms and a special testing room with ocular photography, visual field, and other specialized diagnostic equipment. It has an extensive eye wear center with the latest in spectacle design.

IU Eye area

IU Eye exam room

IU Eye eyewear center

Guanajuato Eye Care Center

The IU School of Optometry has gone south of the border to operate its fifth eye care center. The Guanajuato Eye Care Center (GECC) is located in Guanajuato, Mexico--a city situated just northwest of Mexico City. The center is attached to a hospital and operates in conjunction with the Department of Infants and Family (DIF). Care is provided to the indigent population by a faculty member and optometry interns.

City of Guanajuato

The clinic has four exam lanes, a special testing area, dispensing, and reception areas.

Intern and young patient outside of GECC

GECC reception area

GECC exam room