General Info:
Our history at Integrated Eyecare can be traced back to 1937 when Bend was but a "small village." Dr. Herbert Carpenter Staples established our practice in November of 1937. He eventually sold the practice to a "local boy who made good" in 1953 when Dr. Donald O. Schuman returned to Bend after graduation from Illinois College of Optometry. Dr. Schuman practiced for 29 years in Bend before he was recruited by Pacific University to teach in the College of Optometry in Forest Grove, Oregon. In 1976 Dr. Kit Carmiencke joined Dr. Schuman and the practice was transferred in 1978. In 2008 Dr. Kirsten Scott joined Integrated Eyecare. History of Quality Care, Common trends can be traced from Dr. Staples through Dr. Schuman to our current doctors. First is the concern and caring for each patient and putting his or her visual needs ahead of any other concern. Second is the realization of the special visual performance demands of children in the learning years. More About the Founder, Dr. Staples - Dr. Staples was the son of Senator Isaac Edwin Staples who had a large jewelry store and Optometry business in Portland. Herbert attended the University of Oregon and then began medical school in Portland. The depression was hard on business and as the family jewelry business failed Herbert had to drop out of medical school. Later he resumed his education at Keuser Institute of Optometry in Portland, and Reed College in Chemistry.
After teaching at the Optometry Institute, Dr. Herbert Staples moved his family to Bend in November of 1937. Jim Staples, the son of Dr. Staples, writes, "The night we arrived in Bend the electric power was off due to a storm, no street lights, candles in the windows. We thought the town must be primitive. The next day at day break we awoke to quite a nice little town of 8,000." Dr. Staples rented an office at 934 Wall Street. He developed a large following and during the war years in the early 40's saw a number of patients from Camp Abbot. Jim also c