In Columbus, VSP Vision Care president Kate Renwick-Espinosa (l) poses with Kiawana, who received an eye exam and glasses for the first time in 12 years.
 
 A young patient shows off her new glasses at the VSP Mobile Eyes event in Queens, N.Y.
 
 (L to R) Congressman Ami Bera, VSP Global CEO Jim McGrann and VSP employee Lori Fanning in front of a mobile clinic in Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—VSP Global celebrated 60 years of helping people see on Sept. 30 in activities at its headquarters and around the country. In honor of the milestone anniversary, VSP hosted its largest multi-city mobile eyecare clinic event in the company’s history and provided no-cost eye exams and glasses for 1,637 people in-need.

VSP’s mobile clinics served patients in California, Ohio and New York, Sept. 25 to 29. Specific locations included: Sacramento, Calif., where VSP is headquartered and employs 2,754 people; Columbus, Ohio, home of VSP’s Eastern Operations Center and optical manufacturing laboratory, where the company employs 487 people; and Queens, N.Y., close to VSP’s eyewear design and manufacturing business, Marchon Eyewear, where VSP employs 597 people.

Patients received comprehensive eye exams and, if prescribed, glasses, from a local VSP provider in deluxe mobile eyecare clinics that feature exam rooms with the latest technology and dispensaries with popular frame brands donated by Marchon Eyewear. Two of the clinics also featured finishing labs to make glasses on-site with Unity lenses donated by VSP Optics Group.

To date, through Eyes of Hope programs that include VSP Mobile Eyes, VSP Global has invested more than $173 million in no-cost eyecare and eyewear for nearly one million people in need. With more than two billion people in the world lacking access to proper vision care, VSP remains committed to helping people see, including those disadvantaged by income, distance or disaster.

Jim McGrann, who became CEO of VSP Global on Oct. 1 said, “Sixty years ago, VSP was started with a vision to provide affordable, accessible, high-quality eyecare. We still remain committed to those principles and take pride in serving our 75 million members worldwide.”