TIOGA DIABETIC OPTICAL LABORATORIES 
AND DISPENSARY
Surfacing & Finishing and Anti-Reflective Coating Labs, Dress & Safety Eyewear, 
Lenses, Rx, Coatings and Comprehensive Vision Care. 

 Tioga Diabetic Optical Laboratories And Dispensary Opens Soon!

18,629 SF new state-of-the-art commercial ophthalmic facility with 3,392 SF outpatient
center for pediatric and adult diabetes led by Dr. Chelise Firmin - Optometrist.

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Dr. Chelise Firmin 
Optometrist

The 
Laboratories 

The 
Dispensary

Unveiling Tioga Diabetic Optical Laboratories and Dispensary:
Surfacing & Finishing and Anti-Reflective Coating Labs, Dress & Safety Eyewear, 
Lenses, Rx, Coatings and Comprehensive Vision Care. 

Servicing pre-diabetic and diabetic population (pediatric and adult), children, and eye care professionals throughout the eastern seaboard and high-volume state and federal programs, managed care organizations, insurance companies, union organizations, military, corporate and institutional contracts

Diabetic Population

Eye Care Professionals

Municipalities

Health Systems

Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturer (NAICS 339115 ) 
 Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (333314), Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesaler (NAICS 423460), Optical Goods Retailer (456130) and Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (Industrial Safety Devices e.g., eyewear, eye shields, face shields) (NAICS 423450) Business Enterprise once operational

Products: 

Lenses - Plastic, Polycarb, Poly-Trans, Poly-Polar, Poly-Drivewear, Transitions (1.49, 1.56, 1.60, 1.67) Sunsensors, Hi Index (1.56, 1.60, 1.67, 1.71) Polarized, Drivewear Glass, PGX, PBX, Trivex prescription single vision, bifocal, trifocal, progressive, office and computer

Frames – basic plastic, fashion plastic, high fashion plastic (with and w/o spring hinges), standard metal, fashion metal, splash protection, high fashion metal, corrosion resistant (titanium) and high fashion titanium

Complete eyewear – frames and prescription lenses

Coatings and treatments – tint, anti-reflective, anti-fog, UV and scratch resistant 

Non-Prescription and Prescription protective eyewear frame and lens packages - OSHA-approved – safety glasses (ANSI rated rx, women’s rx, high rx, rx and non-rx), safety goggles, rx medical goggles, safety respirators and safety readers 

Differentiators:

Center of the $117M proposed Tioga District Preventative Health Hub® master planned by applicant TPP Capital Holdings Trust, a Philadelphia based black-led social impact and healthcare real estate development firm.

Larger/faster most state-of-the-art surfacing equipment in the industry. 2- generators (Satisloh VFT Orbit
2 – 90 to 120 jobs per hour) and 2- fully automated polishers (Satisloh Multi Flex – 80 to 100 jobs per
hour).

State-of-the-art anti-reflective coating equipment (Satisloh MC-380 coater – 30 pair or 60 lenses per hour)

Online Ordering, Same-day Rush Jobs, Courier Services, Personalized Customer Service, Customized Promo’s for ECP Offices, Group Buying, Corporate and Institutional Protective Eyewear Program

SERVICES:

  • Pre-Diabetic and Diabetic Eye Exams
  • Contact Lenses
  • On-Site Repairs
  • ​In-House Retail & Wholesale Optical Labs
  • ​Online Ordering, Same-day Rush Jobs, Courier Services, Personalized Customer Service, Customized Promo’s for ECP Offices, Group Buying and Corporate Safety Eyewear Program
  • ​Coatings and Treatments
  • ​Clinical Training for Medical Professionals
  • ​Prison-To-Employment Ophthalmic Reintegration Program 
  • ​Diabetes Education, Support Groups, Group Training, Prevention and Management 

Optician Services:

Retail and Optometry Group Practices, including a state-of-the-art retail showroom, full lab services, a preferred eyeglass fabrication laboratory, and the ability to produce the most complex Rx's on site using advanced digitally surfaced lenses.

Supply to Correctional Facilities, as well being an overflow/specialty provider for facilities with their own labs.

Coordination with Educational Institutions, for onsite education for medical students, service as lab of choice for school systems and their teachers’ unions, support for on-campus optometric clinics, and as a supplier for institution’s maintenance departments with safety eyewear at wholesale prices.

Customers We Serve - B2B

Preferred Lab – Center for Pediatric & Adult Diabetes 
including Optical Dispensary – B2B

  • Pre-Diabetic and Diabetic Population – Pediatric and Adult
  • Children Population
  • Workforce Population (Protective Eyewear Buying Program) - Corporate and Institutions

Wholesale Customers – B2B

  • Eye Care Professionals (ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians)
  • Corporations
  • Health Systems
  • ​Insurance Companies
  • ​Veterans Integrated Service Network (VA-VHA)
  • ​Bureau of Prisons Correctional Facilities (DOJ-BOP)
  • ​Department of Human Services (DHS)
  • ​Medicaid
  • ​Medicare
  • Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
  • Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative (MMAI)
  • Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (Navy, Army, Air Force,
  • School Systems
  • ​Unions
  • On-Campus Optometric Clinics
  • Universities – Maintenance Departments
  • ​Life Sciences

MARKET SERVICE AREA: NICETOWN-TIOGA, NORTH PHILADELPHIA, GREATER PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN SEABOARD

Board of Advisors

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
MD, MBA

Is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Professor Emerita of Health Policy and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania. 

She is Trustee and President Emerita of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a position she held for nearly 15 years.

A specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Lavizzo-Mourey earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lavizo-Mourey is member of the Board of Directors for Better Therapeutics, Intel, Merck, and General Electric Healthcare Technologies where she serves as Lead Director. She is the Chair of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and serves on the boards of TIAA and HHMI among others.








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LAB AND DISPENSARY ADDRESS (ONCE OPERATIONAL) 

  • 3334 N. 17th Street Philadelphia, PA 19140 USA
  • Federal Qualified Opportunity Zone (census tract 42101020101)
  • BioLaunch 611+ Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ)
  • ​Two blocks west of Temple University Hospital, a teaching hospital; Lewis Katz School of Medicine; School of Pharmacy; Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry; College of Public Health, and Shriners Children’s Hospital.

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Contact: Anthony B. Miles, Tioga Diabetic Optical Laboratories

Address: 30 S. 15th Street, 15th Floor, MB 37, Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA

Telephone: (904) 337-9556

Email: amiles@tiogaoptical.com 

NAICS CODES:

339115 Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing

333314 Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing

423460 Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers

423450 Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (Industrial Safety Devices e.g., eye shields, face shields)

456130 Optical Goods Retailers

SIC CODES

38510000 Ophthalmic goods

5048 Ophthalmic Goods

59950000 Optical goods stores

PSC CODES

6540 Ophthalmic Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies

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