High Volume LCA-Vision Baltimore Center Opens Satellite Facility in Annapolis to Meet Strong Area Demand for Laser Vision Surgery.CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 1998-- Expect Chain's 31st Location To Be Profitable Within A Year LCA-Vision Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LCAV LCAV Legal Community Against Violence (San Francisco, CA) LCAV Logistics Support Center Customer Asset Visibility ), a leader in the rapidly-growing laser eye surgery sector, today announced the opening of the chain's 31st laser vision correction center, its third in Maryland, and the first such laser vision correction facility in the city of Annapolis. The new LCA LCA Life Cycle Assessment LCA Saint Lucia (ISO Country code) LCA Life Cycle Analysis LCA Linux.conf.au (Australian Linux conference) LCA Labor Condition Application LCA Light Combat Aircraft Vision GMBC Laser Center will be directly affiliated with LCA's very successful Baltimore center, a joint venture with the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Greater Baltimore Medical Center, known to many as simply as GBMC, is a hospital located in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland. Its entrance is on Charles Street, about 1½ miles south of Baltimore Beltway exit 25, and just one block south of Towsontown Boulevard. . The Baltimore facility, among the busiest in the entire LCA network, has completed over 1,800 laser vision correction procedures since it opened in the Spring of 1996. Commenting on the newest LCA-Vision site, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dr. Stephen Joffe said: "The Annapolis location is a natural extension of our Baltimore center which has treated more patients than any other LCA facility in the U.S. It offers us another excellent growth opportunity since most of the large Eastern Shore region of Maryland is currently unserved by any experienced physicians providing laser eye surgery. We anticipate the site will be profitable within a year." Dr. Anthony Kameen, Medical Director of the Baltimore center, will serve in the same capacity at the new l,900 square-foot facility in Annapolis. One of the nation's few ophthalmologists with a practice devoted exclusively to refractive refractive capacity to refract light. refractive error a difference between the focal length of the cornea and lens, and the length of the eye, resulting in myopia or hyperopia. laser eye surgery, Dr. Kameen has performed the majority of laser surgeries completed in Baltimore since the center opened. In addition to Annapolis, LCA-Vision currently operates 27 laser vision correction centers in the U.S., two in Canada, and one in Helsinki, Finland. Well over 20,000 successful procedures have now been performed at the company's sites which have more than 600 physicians and 800 referring optometrists affiliated with them. LCA-Vision also manages laser, and minimally invasive invasive /in·va·sive/ (-siv) 1. having the quality of invasiveness. 2. involving puncture of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body; said of diagnostic techniques. , multi-specialty programs for major hospitals across the country. CONTACT: LCA-Vision, Inc. Dr. Stephen N. Joffe, CEO (513) 792-9292 or The Dilenschneider Group, Inc. Ken DiPoala or Joel Pomerantz (212) 922-0900 |
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