About the KOA
Our doctors are committed to delivering the highest quality eye and vision care to Kentucky citizens. In addition, members of the KOA pledge:
- to keep the visual welfare of the patient uppermost at all times;
- to promote in every possible way, in collaboration with the Association, better care of the visual needs of mankind;
- to enhance continuously optometry’s educational and technical proficiency to the end that patients shall receive the benefits of all acknowledged improvements in eye care;
- to see that no person shall lack for optometry care, regardless of his/her financial status;
- to advise the patient whenever consultation with an optometric colleague or reference for other professional care seems advisable;
- to hold in professional confidence all information concerning a patient and to use such data only for the benefit of the patient;
- to conduct themselves as exemplary citizens;
- to maintain their offices and practices in keeping with professional standards;
- to promote and maintain cordial and unselfish relationships with members of the optometric profession and of other professions for the exchange of information to the advantage of mankind.