CRAIG
HOCKENBERRY NAMED 2013 HEALTH CARE HERO
The Business Courier hosted its
2013 Health Care Heroes awards dinner on Tuesday night, where finalists were
honored and winners received recognition. This award ranks very high on the
list of public service throughout the City and all the finalists had incredible
backgrounds.
The winner of the Community Outreach category was OneSight
Vision Center at Oyler School. The award was accepted by Oyler Principal Craig
Hockenberry.
Craig
Hockenberry pathed the way for many services at Oyler School throughout his
15 years as the principal of the inner-city school. His partnerships with the Cincinnati Health
Department, Growing Well, the Community Learning Center Institute, Delta
Dental, The Cincinnati Early Learning Center, St. Al, and many other helped
forge a path to public-private partnership across Cincinnati Public.
Mr. Hockenberry took the concept to rural Adams County as well
as Three Rivers where he was the superintendent for six years. The vision center at Oyler was the first
vision center located in a public school in the United States. Craig
Hockenberry leadership and experience with partnerships helped jump start
the concept in the region and across the nation. CLICK HERE
Even before it publicly opened at Oyler School, doctors at the nation’s
first school-based, self-sustaining vision center discovered a fifth-grade boy
who has been living virtually blind. Doctors detected the boy’s acute vision
problem while testing equipment to prepare for the public opening and
dedication of the OneSight
Vision Center inside the Lower Price Hill school last week. The
self-sustaining vision center also outfitted the boy with glasses, as it is
expected to do for hundreds more children.
“If you grow up in a world where you don’t know any
different, you think this is the way it is,’’ says Craig Hockenberry, Oyler's principal. “You can imagine the impact
on learning when a child cannot see the board or a read a book. The vision
center will help us get these kids the vision care they so desperately need.”
The full-service vision center will provide comprehensive eye
exams, glasses, fittings, adjustments, medical eye care and vision therapy with
an onsite optometrist, ophthalmic technician and optician. It is expected to
serve about 2,000 students per year.
CRAIG
HOCKENBERRY CINCINNATI, OHIO
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