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OCTOBER 2001: MyEyeDr. opened its first door in Burke, Va. on October 1, 2001 as the country and the region were reeling in the aftermath of September 11.

DECEMBER 2012: Boston-based Monitor Clipper makes a minority investment in MyEyeDr. to further grow the business. At the end of 2012, MyEyeDr. spanned 46 locations.

JANUARY 2014: MyEyeDr. acquires N.C.’s Doctor’s Vision Centers.

OCTOBER 2014: Sue Downes, who had co-founded MyEyeDr. with Dr. Rob Samit in 2001, was named CEO of the company. At this time, MyEyeDr. had grown from its original group of offices in the Washington D.C. metro area to operate 110 practices in D.C., Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

DECEMBER 2014: MyEyeDr. acquires N.C.’s Eye Care Associates.

MAY 2015: MyEyeDr. enters the #10 spot on VM’s Top U.S Optical Retailers Report, measuring 2014 calendar sales with revenues of $165 million from 139 locations.

AUGUST 2015: MyEyeDr. is recapitalized with Altas Partners and Canada’s Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec fund, enhancing the organization’s resources and escalating its expansion into new markets.

JUNE 2019: Goldman Sachs division to acquire Capital Vision Services, manager of MyEyeDr. Group, from Altas Partners and CDPQ West Street Capital Partners VII, a fund managed by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs (GS MBD), Altas Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) announced their entry into a definitive agreement under which GS MBD will acquire Capital Vision Services, LP (CVS) from Altas and CDPQ. Capital Vision Services provides management services to MyEyeDr. optometry practices. The deal is expected to be closed in the third quarter. Terms undisclosed, however, The Wall Street Journal valued the deal at $2.7 billion, including debt.

MARCH 2020: MyEyeDr. was one of the country’s first groups to shut down its offices due to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company started to gradually reopen offices in August of that year. The MyEyeDr. team came together to establish the OneFamily Fund to assist its vulnerable associates who have been impacted by the pandemic; the fund was financed exclusively by personal donations from members of the company’s team.

JULY 2020: Black EyeCare Perspective launched IMPACT HCBU with a goal of bringing more awareness of the vision care field to Black students, educating students about the optometry profession through historically Black colleges and universities through the U.S. MyEyeDr. was one of the initial three supporters of the program, alongside America’s Best and Warby Parker.

JANUARY 2021: MyEyeDr. expands the MyEyeDr. OneFamily Community Fund as a new charitable organization. This charitable 501(3)(c) organization is an expansion of the initial work done through the company’s OneFamily Fund that was established in 2020 to help their associates through the economic challenges that year. The Fund’s expanded mission is to provide care, assistance, and support to associates and others in need by administering a financial hardship and disaster relief program, and to sponsor and support charitable work and outreach opportunities in the communities where MyEyeDr. and its affiliates’ patients and associates live and work.

SEPTEMER 2021: The American Optometric Association (AOA) and MyEyeDr. announce a partnership that will provide about 500 of the company’s paraoptometrics access to the association’s exclusive educational and professional development hub, EyeLearn. The hub includes hundreds of educational modules, webinars and articles to help advance clinical proficiency, the practice of contemporary optometry and practice management knowledge for AOA-member doctors of optometry, students of optometry and associate member paraoptometric staff. The access to best practices and on-demand resources for MyEyeDr.’s technicians was behind the formation of the partnership.

OCTOBER 2021: MyEyeDr. marked its 20th anniversary, launching a series of company celebrations for its team of associates, doctors, managers, executives and operations center groups across the country and with patients. The company stood at 750 locations spanning 29 states.

JANUARY 2022: The American Optometric Association announced that MyEyeDr. is one of several founding partners of a new forum the AOA is convening for policy discussion and research aimed at expanding the professional association’s proactive advocacy on behalf of its member doctors and their patients.