Impact Report - 2022

Increasing Service for Growth

Serving the entire state of Kansas through a new strategic partnership

This year Saving Sight grew even more with the expansion of our territory in Kansas. In June of 2021, Saving Sight and Kansas Eye Bank & Research Center integrated operations and now operate a location in Wichita as Kansas Eye Bank, a division of Saving Sight. With this acquisition, we continued growing our reach as good stewards of the gift of sight.

The partnership between Saving Sight and Kansas Eye Bank brings together two nonprofit organizations with a rich history of serving the community, ocular transplant physicians, vision researchers and area hospitals. Both organizations share the mission to restore vision to individuals needing a corneal transplant.

With the addition of Kansas Eye Bank’s Wichita facility, Saving Sight added new donor hospitals to our network of partner hospitals. Saving Sight was able to increase the number of corneal tissues provided to physicians for transplantation.

This new partnership allowed Saving Sight to expand its efforts in supporting the choice of eye donors and their families to leave a lasting legacy through the gift of donation.

“We’re excited about what this new partnership means in providing sight to even more people across Kansas, the Midwest and beyond,” said Tony Bavuso, CEO of Saving Sight.