See Your World More Clearly. 1968, Shepherd Eye Center opened in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. John R. Shepherd pioneered new techniques and instrumentation that improved the way cataract surgery was performed around the world.
1968, Shepherd Eye Center opened in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. John R. Shepherd pioneered new techniques and instrumentation that improved the way cataract surgery was performed around the world.
Dr. Shepard received his Medical Doctor degree and his Master’s degree in Public Health, Administrative Management from the George Washington University.
Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions. Founded in 1975, Shepherd Center is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 10 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation. In its more than four decades, Shepherd Center has grown from a six-bed rehabilitation unit to a world-renowned, 152-bed hospital that treats more than 743 inpatients, 277 day program patients and more than 7,161 outpatients each year in more than 46,000 visits.
If patients experience any technical difficulties with MyChart, they can contact Shepherd Center’s MyChart Support Team at 404-425-7250 to leave a message. One of our representatives will return their call typically with one business day. Patients can learn more about MyChart at shepherd.org/MyChart.
Shepherd Center is in an Epic Community Connect partnership with Piedmont Healthcare, meaning Shepherd Center is hosted on Piedmont’s Epic platform. That means some of the email communication patients receive will include the Piedmont name and branding. The team at Shepherd Center is still the main point of contact for Shepherd Center patients’ MyChart account and their care.
MyChart offers personalized and secure online access to portions of your medical records and enables you to securely use the internet to help manage and receive information about your health.
MyChart helps serve as the control center for managing your health in a streamlined format. In it, you can view your to-do list, health reminders and proxy access (for parent, guardian, or other caregiver access if applicable) and access Medline Plus, a search engine for health topics.
Refractive lens exchange or clear lens exchange is a surgery to replace the natural lens in the eye that is no longer focusing near and far with an artificial lens that can focus for both near and far. Read More. LASIK Surgery. Cataract Surgery.
We will eventually lose the ability to focus up close as we age. This is called presbyopia, and it usually begins around age 45.