Wills Eye Institute The name has stood for excellence in eye care for more than a century and a half. Located in Center City Philadelphia, Wills Eye is one of the most advanced eye centers ever constructed. For more than a century, Wills Eye, ranked in the top three in the country for ophthalmology by U.S. News & World Report. Wills Eye has been helping Philadelphians see better and pioneering techniques that are now commonly used. Each year, they provide more than 100,000 patients with routine eye care; patients with potentially fatal eye cancers travel from the far corners of the earth to be seen by the Wills Eye Oncology Service, one of the biggest in the world.
(840 Walnut Street, 877-289-4557)Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Scheie Eye Institute Scheie Eye Institute serves as the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Scheie is a world leader in research on retinal degenerations, especially age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and is consistently in the top five in the nation in funding by the National Eye Institute. In 2007, Scheie Eye Institute ranked first in the country in research grants from the National Eye Institute.
(51 North 39th Street, 215-662-8100)
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