The James H. Hall Eye Center is a private non-profit organization committed to the detection and prevention of blindness in newborns and children. Our goal is to preserve vision, restore sight, and to develop more effective treatments and cures for all diseases of the visual system that damage, affect and destroy sight. We play an active role in the rehabilitation of impaired eyesight for children of all ages.

1,225 Atlanta children received free treatment this year from the James H. Hall Eye Center. To learn more about our activities please read our 2010 report.

Our founder, James H. Hall, owner of Georgia Electric Company in Albany, Georgia, suffered multiple and serious eye problems including a tumor, glaucoma, cataracts, and detached retina. In his search for treatment, he found a group of outstanding ophthalmologists who treated and preserved his vision. In appreciation for what he had received, Mr. Hall incorporated the Foundation in 1979 to develop new methods of preventing blindness, and as a vehicle to provide, finance, organize and achieve the following goals:

• To provide highly-skilled ophthalmologic and surgical care to indigent children.
• To perform clinical research aimed to broaden rehabilitative and therapeutic treatment applications.
• To sponsor a post-doctoral training program in pediatric ophthalmology to fulfill the increasing need for such specialists.

Our outstanding group of opthamologists—with specialties in pediatrics, retina, glaucoma, plastics, and cornea—provide consultation and treatment to more than 500 patients and as many as 1,000 emergency cases each year.