Volunteer with the Casey Eye Institute (Casey) Community Outreach Team!

Through the generous support of our program donors and with the dedicated service of the Casey Community Outreach Volunteer Team, we will be partnering with Virginia Garcia Newberg to provide free eye screenings to adult community members who are low income and/or underinsured.

About Virginia Garcia Newberg:
Virginia Garcia is a catalyst for change in health care delivery.

The Mission of the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center is to provide high quality, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate primary health care to the communities of Washington and Yamhill counties with a special emphasis on migrant and seasonal farmworkers and others with barriers to receiving health care.

Vision

Our vision is simple. We work to ensure that all people in our service area have access to timely, high-quality health services, enabling them to achieve the best possible health outcome.

Shared Values

In service to VGMHC as employees, volunteers, donors, or other supporting constituents, we are guided in all that we do by a set of Shared Values:

• Patient-centered: We base all of our actions and decisions, fundamentally, in our quest to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and to ensure that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
• Collaboration: We value strategic partnerships as an approach to improving the health of our community.
• Health and wellness: We believe in nurturing health and wellness among our patients, employees and the community. We focus on health promotion and prevention of disease.
• Diversity: We believe in acknowledging and honoring people’s differences by drawing on the cultures, talents and ideas of a broader group of people. We seek to harness the strengths of our individuality for the common good. Our diversity allows the exploration of ways we are alike while also respecting our differences in a safe, positive and nurturing environment.
• Quality: We commit to excellence in all our work. Foremost, we believe in applying high-quality, evidence-based care to all our patients.
• Progressive: We believe in innovation, growth and positive change in all we do.
• Social justice: We strive to eliminate health disparities by providing high-quality care regardless of a person’s socio-economic status while advocating for health policy consistent with our mission.
• Fun and thriving workplace : We commit to a workplace that emphasizes joy in our work, growing and developing employees, a passion for learning, creative problem solving, a celebration of individual’s uniqueness, and the spirit of teamwork in all we do.
• Customer service: We value the service we provide to our patients, community partners, and each other. We maintain the integrity and self-esteem of each person we serve by listening to understand, responding to their needs in a timely manner, following through on our commitments, and seeking feedback for continuous improvement.
• Stewardship: We believe in the efficient, effective, and ethical use of all our resources, and we hold ourselves accountable to report on our actions to our patients, employees, funders, volunteers, and other partners.

Community members seeking an eye exam

Please contact Virginia Garcia Newberg directly to learn more about scheduling an appointment (*Please note, the community hosting agency may be unable to schedule individuals outside their geographical service area, or those that are not currently receiving services from their agency).

How to request a community vision screening event hosted by your agency

For agencies interested in becoming a Casey Community Outreach Partner, please email caseyoutreach@ohsu.edu to learn more about hosting a vision screening clinic for your community.

Volunteer sign up

Lunch will be provided! 

To sign up as a volunteer: please email caseyoutreach@ohsu.edu with the following information:

• Name
• Phone number
• Date of the event you wish to volunteer for
• Whether you have any dietary restrictions.

You will receive an email confirmation from the program once your registration is confirmed.

Thanks!