About Us - Simon Eye Associates, Delaware Eye Care

DELAWARE’S PRIMARY VISION CARE

To preserve and maintain the precious gift of eyesight is an awesome responsibility. In 1987, Charles J. Simon, OD, accepted that responsibility by launching a private optometric practice in Wilmington, Delaware. From the beginning, he put patients’ needs first.

"I always believed that if I treated everyone as being part of my family, I would do what was best for each of them,” says Dr. Simon.

Growth followed.

Today, Simon Eye Associates has become one of Delaware’s largest group optometric practices with six offices, thirteen doctors, and about seventy employees. Guided by its motto “Eye Care for Life,” Simon Eye Associates has built an outstanding reputation by adopting the latest technologies, emphasizing professionalism, and rigorously developing its personal relationships with patients. 

“We constantly measure our service to patients,” says Dr. Simon. “We put a lot of time and effort into getting feedback, collecting comments and suggestions, and then promptly addressing any concerns.”

One doctor is regularly assigned to quality control, making sure everything is being done correctly on the technical side and improving procedures when necessary. Everything is made as easy for patients as possible, from the convenient parking at each office, to the helpful staff who assists patients with insurance forms. All opticians and optometric assistants are certified at levels beyond the state requirements, and most doctors are residency-trained, says Dr. Simon: “We treat eye diseases and emergencies for patients of every age. We are the primary care doctors for the eye.”

Providing Eye-Opening Technologies for Better Vision

Simon Eye Associates has always kept up with advances in technology that assist in the diagnosis and care of our patients’ vision and eye health. Simon Eye Associates: Employs the use of automated equipment with laser light to help establish prescriptions. Our visual field mapping helps screen and detect diseases of the eye and neurologic system.

Photography is used to take a picture of the inside of the eye, establishing a baseline for future exams so that changes are more easily detected. This “fundus” or “retinal” photography documents the progression – or non-progression – of eye diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinal vascular disease, or diabetic retinopathy, as well.

Our Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) takes a laser-generated image of the optic nerve area and helps detect glaucoma long before eye pressure tests or visual field losses indicate a problem.  Early glaucoma treatment is one of the very best ways to preserve eyesight.

Our IZON machine creates a unique “eyeprint” of your eye – like a fingerprint that is unique only to you – so that your own customized high resolution lenses can be made especially for you.

Simon Eye Associates is one of the few Delaware practices to offer much of this technology, and is the only practice in Delaware to offer the unique IZON technology.