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Welcome! We have provided vision and eye health care to Southwest Missouri, Southeast Missouri, Kentucky, West Tennessee, Illinois and Indiana since 1998. Thank you for entrusting your eye health care to Dr. Derek Melton and various staff!
Please come see us at the Rural Primary Eye Care Outreach Clinic of Portageville, especially if you feel you have a specialized need for further eye or vision care that requires a caring and concerned primary eye care provider.
If you are a veteran or military member, please see Drs. Melton or Kramer, at John J. Pershing VAMC of Poplar Bluff, Missouri (if you have need of eye/vision care or guidance in eye disease management or treatment).
**NEW PORTAGEVILLE, MO LOCATION FOR CHILDREN & ELDERLY***
Melton Eye Care, 99 Skyview Road, Portageville, MO 63873
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MASK POLICY UPDATE:
New guidelines and as a result of April 18, 2022 court order, masks are no longer required on or in high travel areas, but CDC has announced that CDC continues to recommend wearing a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high community transmission, regardless of vaccination status. ***We appreciate consideration of our elderly patients, although a 'mask wear policy' is not enforced.
As of April 15, 2022, at Melton Eye Care Clinic, we no longer maintain a 'mask wear' policy for our optometric physician(s) and clinical associates for many reasons and ask that our clinical teams continue N-95/surgical masks and clinical precautions as usual and customary aspects of our patient care/contact protocols, on an, only 'as warranted' basis. It is the individual right of the patient to make that determination for themselves and/or their families.
With previous mass immunization, natural immunity and medication protocols, Covid-19+ is currently endemic and has a much reduced mortality rate for our elderly population.***Unfortunately, new viral threats can occur, so caution is advised for 'at risk' patients.
