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| Welcome to Collom & Carney Eye Institute |
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| The fact that you
placed your trust in us is a responsibility that we do not take lightly.
Rest assured that we will do out utmost to justify your confidence. Our
physicians at Collom & Carney Eye Institute are all Eye M.D.'s able to
provide complete vision services from the most basic eye exam for glasses or
contacts to the comprehensive management of eye diseases and surgical treatment
all in one convient location. Our caring staff has been well trained and
specially chosen t be responsive to your needs and to work with our physicians
in their commitment to excellence. |
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 About
Collom & Carney Clinic
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| Collom &
Carney Clinic is a private medical group practice. This means that it is
a group of specialists and primary care physicians who have pooled their skills
and resources with the goal of the highest possible standards of medical and
surgical care. By gathering together, it permits a wide arrangement of
specialties within the clinic, to use their cumulative training and experience
for your benefit. All physicians on the clinic staff are either Board
"Eligible" or Board "Certified" in their specialty. In some instances,
staff members also have additional sub-specialty certifications. |
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History
of Collom & Carney Clinic
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It is said that the measure of
greatness is not in what a man does, but in what he leaves behind for those who
come after. Collom and Carney Clinic Association, which started as an idea of
"group practice" in the minds of two physicians in Military Service, has now
grown into one of the largest and most important medical services complexes in
the East Texas area.
From its humble beginnings in a renovated duplex on
Main Street in Texarkana, Texas, the clinic now boasts a facility of over
88,000 square feet at 4800 Texas Blvd., plus facilities at Central Mall, Wake
Village, Summerhill Road, Galleria Oaks, New Boston, and Hope, Arkansas. Collom
& Carney Clinic provides a full range of services, including diagnostic
radiology, laboratory, ultrasound, on-site pharmacy, physical therapy, optical
shop and some limited respiratory therapy services.
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What is
more important is the impact that Collom and Carney Clinic has made on
thousands of individuals in the Texarkana area. One patient said this: Dr.
Carney saved my life. I was a senior at Texas High School in 1947 and would go
to his office down the street [at 619 Main] on my lunch hour. I had fever and
nosebleeds all the time. He found out I had something wrong with my spleen and
found a way for me to go on the train to John Sealey Hospital in Galveston,
Texas. Dr. Carney was so patient and caring. I loved him. I'm here today
because of him.
Another patient who had broken her leg while climbing
a tree as a child in the 1940s, was bedfast in a back bedroom for six months
because her mother, who worked the night shift at Red River Army Depot, could
not afford a physician. Someone told Dr. Collom about her, and after he
examined her leg, he immediately provided an ambulance and rode with her to
Galveston, Texas. Osteomyelitis and gangrene had set in, and after two years of
treatment at John Sealey Hospital with the threat of amputation, she received
full use of her leg and learned to walk again.
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Dr. Collom saved my life. Because of him, I can walk today. My Mom supported
herself and three kids, and Dr. Collom told us, 'Don't feel bad. No one in
Texarkana could have paid for what needed to be done for you.' Dr. Collom was
so soft-spoken and kind. And he did it all for free.
It was in this spirit that Collom and Carney Clinic
was born. The caring attitude and zeal for excellence exhibited in Dr. Henry M.
Carney and Dr. Spencer Allen Collom have been the driving forces behind the
success of Collom and Carney Clinic for the past fifty years. The above was
taken from the Introduction to "The History of Collom and Carney Clinic
Association. |
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Collom
& Carney Eye Institute
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The Collom &
Carney Eye Institute started as an office in a small corner of a triple wide
trailer in back of the old Collom & Carney Clinic on Texas Boulevard in
1977. It has steadily grown to it's present size and progressed into a
state of the art eye care clinic. In May of 1995 the Collom & Carney
Eye Institute moved to it's present location, 5402 Summerhill Road. Dr.
E.T. Ellison was the founding physician of Collom and Carney Eye Institute and
Dr. Wanda Northam joined him in 1991. Dr. Gary Womack joined the practice
in 1997.
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Our physicians at
Collom & Carney Eye Institute offer a complete range of consultative
ophthalmologic services including medical and surgical management of corneal
and anterior segment conditions and disorders, vitreous and retinal disorders,
uveitis and glaucoma services, cataract surgery with introcular lens
implants. Refractive surgery including LADARVision CUSTOM LASIK,
Intralace LASIK, and Conductive Keratoplasty (CK). Specialized services
include laser surgery for diabetic eye diseases and glaucoma, fluorescein
angiography for retinal and diabetic diagnosis, and botox.
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