The Connecticut Eye Bank was established, another eye bank that will later comprise the Eversight network.

The EBAA standardized eye banking, establishing requirements for facilities, tissue handling, documentation and ethics. In addition, the Association has played a critical role in legislative matters. Today, EBAA fosters eye banking technical skills development, knowledge sharing and collaboration across more than 50 member eye banks.

Before Eversight became the eye bank serving Northeast Ohio, the Cleveland Eye Bank, founded in 1964, served Ohioans for decades until it merged with Eversight in 2012.

The Illinois Eye-Bank joins with the Michigan Eye-Bank to form the Midwest Eye-Banks and Transplantation Center (MEBTC). Together, they provided more comprehensive and efficient care to both communities, their surgeons and patients. 

The former Upper Peninsula Lions Eye Bank in Marquette, Michigan affiliates with MEBTC. 

The BroMenn-Watson Gailey Eye Bank in Illinois becomes a division of MEBTC, allowing the organization to serve both northern and central Illinois. 

Midwest Eye-Banks and Transplantation Center changes its name to Midwest Eye-Banks.  

The Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey joins Midwest Eye–Banks. 

Cleveland Eye Bank joins Midwest Eye-Banks.

Midwest Eye-Banks rebrands, and the organization’s name is changed to Eversight. That same year, the Connecticut Eye Bank becomes an affiliate of Eversight, and Eversight establishes the first U.S.-owned and operated eye bank outside of the United States in South Korea. This network works together as a unified operation to deliver the highest quality services to surgeons and their patients and to continue to grow our impact around the world. 

Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the Eversight Center for Vision and Eye Banking Research is pioneering research that promises new therapies and discoveries to prevent blindness, including a new focus on retinal procurement, preparation and research to one day treat and prevent non-corneal vision loss. 

Eversight expands eye banking services in Arizona in collaboration with Donor Network of Arizona, the state’s federally designated organ procurement organization.