CareCredit, a leading provider of promotional financing, is officially launching Office Manager/Administrator Appreciation Month on October 1, 2022. Providers, teams and especially office managers and administrators are invited to celebrate and recognize everything these #AwesomeOMAs do for their teams, patients and practices.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects  approximately one in 44 children. ASD is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. People with ASD often have problems with social communication and interaction, and restricted or repetitive behaviors or interests, characteristics that can make life very challenging. As with other developmental issues, early detection and intervention can make a lifetime of difference. Currently, the average age for ASD diagnosis is 4 years of age, but researchers at Washington State University may have a noninvasive way to detect ASD in children younger than 2 years. (Washington State University. "Eye test could screen children for autism, study finds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 August 2022. < www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220822091047.htm >.)

Your laboratory is your most crucial vendor relationship. From my perspective, I observe how a lab can be an eyecare professional’s best ally. Because no matter how beautiful a frame is, if you can’t trust your laboratory to make a good pair of lenses, you won’t have a happy customer.