Expanded eye care in the Veterans Administration hospital setting.

Over the past decade a greater number of optometrists can be found practicing in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, health clinics and other multipractitioner group settings. The impetus enabling optometry to practice in such settings is based in part on cost effectivity. Optometrists in Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals have been in the forefront in this movement to provide the full range of primary eye care services, and in becoming an integral part of the hospital/medical community.