North Carolina Eye Bank Email Format
Hospital & Health CareNorth Carolina, United States51-200 Employees
The North Carolina Eye Bank is a health care organization based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, focused on recovering, processing, and distributing ocular tissue to support corneal transplantation and related medical therapy and research. Its mission centers on educating the public and medical communities about eye and tissue donation, honoring donor and family wishes, maintaining high tissue quality, and collaborating with ophthalmologists and other professionals to achieve favorable outcomes for recipients. The organization serves medical professionals and potential donors within the disease area of vision restoration, operating within the hospitals and healthcare sector. Founded after a legislative effort in the early 1950s, it traces its roots to a group of visionaries led by L. Byerly Holt, M.D., and has evolved to be a longstanding eye bank in North Carolina, now identified as The North Carolina Eye Bank. The entity is based in the Winston-Salem area and is part of a broader network of eye banks and related tissue organizations serving the region.