Connecticut Children's Ophthalmology and Optical Shop – Glastonbury

Connecticut Children's Ophthalmology and Optical Shop - Glastonbury is an optometry practice in Glastonbury, CT. The office provides pediatric eye care, with ophthalmology as its specialty at this location. The team includes pediatric optometrists Maria Varela, OD, and Michelle Reichle, OD, along with Kim Mancinelli-Hough, MSN, FNP-BC, an advanced practice registered nurse. The practice is part of Connecticut Children's, a health system in Connecticut dedicated to kids, offering care across more than 30 pediatric specialties in 30+ locations throughout Connecticut, Eastern New York and Western Massachusetts. The practice holds a rating of 2.90.

The location sits on New London Turnpike, near its intersection with Hebron Avenue, and is described as conveniently located off Route 2. The Glastonbury Post Office is about 0.1 miles away, as is the Connecticut River Valley Chamber of Commerce. The Gideon Welles House, a historic building, is roughly 0.2 miles from the office, and a GoHealth Urgent Care clinic is about 0.3 miles away.

Connecticut Children's states its mission is improving the physical and emotional health of children through family centered care, research, education and advocacy, with a vision of transforming children's health and well-being as one team. The system's main campus is at 282 Washington Street in Hartford, and its main phone number is 860.545.9000. Among its community programs is Safe Kids Connecticut, initiated in 1993 as part of a national campaign to reduce childhood injury, with a network that includes police, firefighters, public health professionals, hospitals, educators, child passenger safety technicians, community agencies and parents. Safe Kids Connecticut holds child passenger safety events statewide, including car seat clinics, car seat technician classes and educational presentations, along with bicycle safety events and distribution of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.