About COA

Mission Statement
The mission of the California Optometric Association is to assure quality health care for the public by advancing all modes of optometry and by providing members with the resources and support to practice at the highest levels of ethics and professionalism.

Vision Statement
Setting the standard in eyecare.

Code of Ethics
It shall be the ideal, the resolve, and the duty of the members of the California Optometric Association

TO KEEP the visual welfare of the patient uppermost at all times;

TO PROMOTE in every possible way, in collaboration with this Association, better care of the visual needs of humanity;

TO ENHANCE continuously their educational and technical proficiency to the end that their patients shall receive the benefits of all acknowledged improvements in visual care;

TO SEE THAT no person shall lack for visual care, regardless of financial status;

TO ADVISE the patient whenever consultation with an optometric colleague or reference for other professional care seems advisable;

TO HOLD in professional confidence all information concerning a patient and to use such data only for the benefit of the patient;

TO CONDUCT themselves as exemplary citizens;

TO MAINTAIN their offices and their practices in keeping with professional standards;

TO PROMOTE and maintain cordial and unselfish relationships with members of their own profession and of other professions for the exchange of information to the advantage of humanity.