Eye Care

Our eye doctors specialize in exams for any condition or eye disease.

Our eye doctors specialize in exams for any condition or eye disease. We have equipment and technology to care for all your visual needs. As a non-profit clinic we have a sliding scale fee for any uninsured patients to make their care affordable regardless of their reason for needing an eye exam. We also try our hardest to provide in-person interpreters for every visit. Please see the information below regarding some of our services. Referring Providers Please fill out this Eye Care Referral form online or print a referral form and fax a copy of the most recent eye exam and visual field.

Glasses and Contact Lenses
Not seeing as clearly as you can may impact your performance at school or work, cause eye strain, and cause headaches. As part of your eye exam, we will evaluate whether you will benefit from glasses and/or contact lenses. This is very important to ensure you are getting your best quality of life.

Types of Glasses: distance vision only, reading glasses, computer glasses, lined-bifocals, and no-line bifocals (aka progressives).

Types of Contact Lenses: Soft Contact Lenses and Scleral Contact Lenses. We will evaluate your eyes to determine the best type of contact lenses for you based on your prescription, lifestyle and how you will be wearing them. We will provide training and education on how to insert and remove the contact lenses, and how to best care for them.

We accept walk-in urgent eye care any day the clinic is open. If you are experiencing red eyes, vision loss, or need foreign body removal, please call our clinic appointment line to be seen immediately.
Diabetes is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States – making it very important to get a dilated eye exam once a year if you have diabetes. When we evaluate the blood vessels within the eye, it gives us a good idea of how blood sugar is affecting the rest of the body. We will provide a letter back to your endocrinologist or primary care doctor with the results of your eye exam.

Open Cities Eye Clinic Providers are all part of the InfantSEE program which allows for a 1-time vision assessment for infants between the ages of 6-12 months.

Eye exams are different from a vision screening. Parents may fall under the pretense that their child’s vision is adequate after having a vision screening performed at the doctor’s office or at their child’s school. An eye exam encompasses more testing that can help detect not only sight, but also other eye conditions which may prevent them from learning. In fact, 1 in 4 children have an eye and vision condition that may be affecting learning and may miss the equivalent of 135 days of school content each school year (Health Policy Institute, American Optometric Association).

Visual symptoms are common after concussion or brain injury, in fact studies show 90% of patients with brain injury have visual dysfunction (NORA). These may include symptoms of double vision, blurred vision, eyestrain, blinking excessively or not enough, tracking, and reading eye movement problems, side vision defects, eye teaming and eye focusing problems, and light sensitivity. Treatment for conditions may involve spectacles, tinted lenses, prism, or vision rehabilitation.
We can complete diagnostic testing for the patient and refer them back to you or co-manage depending on your preference. Testing we provide:
  • Anterior and Posterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
  • Visual Fields
  • Anterior and Posterior Segment Photography
  • Topography
  • Meibomography
Services Available:
  • Primary eye care
  • Vision therapy
  • Traumatic brain injury vision therapy
  • Scleral contact lenses
  • Punctual plug insertion/removal
  • Foreign body removal
  • Infant and Pediatric eye exams
  • Co-management and post operative care

If you need of an interpreter they are available in any language upon request.

Concerned about cost? We have a sliding fee, and will find a way to work with you, regardless of your ability to pay. View our uninsured options.

Open Cities Health Center

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Dunlap Clinic

409 North Dunlap St.
St. Paul, MN 55104

HOURS
MWTHF: 8am – 5pm
Tuesdays: 8am – 8pm

North End Clinic

916 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55117

HOURS
Monday – Friday: 8am – 5pm

Health Services

* Dental services are available Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm at our Dunlap and North End Clinic

About Us

Open Cities Health Center is a FTCA deemed Facility.

This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal PHS deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.

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