Eye Care for Detroit
Eye Care for Detroit is a mobile and clinic-based social enterprise that delivers affordable, high-quality eye exams, disease screening, and glasses directly to homebound and underserved residents. Our mission is to ensure that where you live or what you earn never determines whether you can see clearly and protect your vision for life.
Eye Care for Detroit exists so that being homebound or low-income is never a reason to lose your sight. Our mobile eye care unit brings full-service eye exams, disease screening, and glasses directly to people’s homes and community sites, so patients don’t have to navigate transportation, mobility challenges, or long wait times.
We’re more than a clinic – our model is designed to close long-standing access gaps in eye care for underserved neighborhoods, where preventable eye disease, transportation barriers, and cost keep people from care.
Alongside this, horeyesontal.ai is our emerging AI-powered care platform that turns every visit and every data point from our mobile unit into a more personalized care plan. It supports clinicians and caregivers with smarter follow-up, risk alerts, and education tools so patients don’t just get one exam, but an ongoing roadmap to protect their vision over time.
We are now planning to grow from Eye Care for Detroit into Eye Care for Michigan, taking the same mobile, tech-enabled model to homebound and underserved communities across the state.
Our ask is not funding – it’s connections and collaboration:
Connect us with home health agencies, senior housing, churches, and community groups so we can send our mobile eye care unit, supported by horeyesontal.ai, to the people who need it most.
Share our story with caregivers, families, and local leaders so they know that in-home, technology-enabled eye care is an option for people on Medicaid, Medicare, or limited incomes.
Across Detroit and Michigan, tens of thousands of residents are homebound and at higher risk of avoidable, treatable eye diseases and vision loss simply because they cannot reach affordable eye care. Every person who helps us reach one more household with our mobile unit – and plug them into horeyesontal.ai for ongoing support – is helping prevent blindness, restore independence, and keep our communities from being left in the dark.
“Our top takeaway from participating in the Social Enterprise Collective Cohort is the power of building a clear, scalable model that balances impact and sustainability. We’ve learned how to articulate our value, measure our outcomes, and design partnerships so Eye Care for Detroit – and soon Eye Care for Michigan – can reliably reach more homebound and underserved patients without compromising on quality or compassion.
We’d like to share that this cohort has helped us see Eye Care for Detroit not just as a service, but as part of a larger movement to redesign how vulnerable people access healthcare. As we grow into Eye Care for Michigan and build out horeyesontal.ai, we’re eager to keep learning from this community, pilot ideas with fellow social enterprises, and co-create models that other cities can replicate so no one loses their vision because of where they live or their ability to travel.”