Partners

Mejor Vista, Mejor Vida
This project is a partnership between MAB and the Holyoke Health Center that combines MAB’s expertise in managing low vision with the Health Center’s expertise in diabetes self-management. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness among adults in the U.S. This three year project seeks to demonstrate a model for helping patients with low vision successfully manage their diabetes. Major funders include the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, Covidien, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and the S. Elizabeth O’Brien Trust.

Visually Impaired Elders Program
The Visually Impaired Elders Program targets MAB’s vision rehabilitation and support services to elders who are at risk of falls and nursing home placements due to their vision loss. Elders are the fastest-growing and most vulnerable population of individuals with vision loss. The number of elders with vision loss is expected to double by 2030.

New England Eye Institute
NEEI is the eye care partner at the low vision clinics in MAB’s Western and Central Massachusetts offices. The organizations also work together on in-home rehabilitation services in the Greater Boston area.

MAB also collaborates with the low vision clinics at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Beetham Eye Clinic at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

We partner with community health centers, ophthalmologists and optometrists, medical centers, health plans, hospitals, housing sites, ASAPs, and other senior service providers. Find out how we could be your organization’s vision rehabilitation partner by contacting us today. MAB is Medicare and Medicaid certified.

MAB’s Vision Rehabilitation services are generously supported by:
Boston CDBG, Brookline CDBG, Holyoke CDBG, Newton CDBG, Springfield CDBG
The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
The United Way of North Central Massachusetts
The United Way of Pioneer Valley

COGNEX, the George E. Curtis Charitable Trust, the Campbell and Hall Charity Fund, the Irene and George Davis Foundation, Draper Laboratories, the Boston Evening Clinic Foundation, the Nashoba Valley Community Fund, Sailors’ Snug Harbor of Boston, MEDITECH, and the Memorial Foundation for the Blind.

Federal funding through grants from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs under the Older Americans Act awarded by BayPath Elder Services, Central Mass. Area Agency on Aging, Chelsea-Rever-Winthrop Elder Services, Greater Springfield Senior Services, Highland Valley Elder Services, Mystic Valley Elder Services, Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services, Springwell, and WestMass Elder Services.

Additional Contracting Partners
Boston Senior Home Care, Central Boston Elder Services, Commonwealth Care Alliance, Ethos, Senior Whole Health