Our Mission

Our eye care centers will be the premier medical and surgical eye care provider within the local communities we serve.

We will overserve and provide value to our patients, employees, providers, and shareholders through superior leadership and commitment to teamwork, compliance, integrity, technology and our community.

Our Vision

We will transform the eye care experience through a culture of caring for our patients and their families, providing quality eye care services and procedures through innovation and technical excellence, and improving patient lives through preventing, curing, and treating eye disease.

The Mountain Empire Eye Physicians Story

It’s a visual world. Make the most of it.

With a full range of medical and surgical procedures designed to address our patients' individual vision needs, we help those of all ages. Whether you need pediatric care, comprehensive eye exams, oculoplastic procedures, or treatment for cataracts, glaucoma, dry eye, or diabetic retinopathy, our doctors bring RESULTS and QUALITY eye care to you from four convenient locations.

We also offer patients a state-of-the-art out-patient surgery center located on-site at our main office in Bristol, TN.

Our aim is to improve your overall quality of life, so we are pleased to offer hearing and audiology care within our Bristol, TN, facility, thanks to clinical audiologist Jennifer Henson of Mountain Empire Hearing and Audiology Services.

Experience what you’ve been missing.

  • "I’ve gone to Dr Hicks for several years. He performed my cataract surgery last year with excellent results. He is very friendly and fully explains any questions I may have. I highly recommend Dr Hicks and Mountain Empire Eye Associates & Surgery."

    - Catherine H, Cataract Surgery Patient

  • "Cataract surgery experience could not have been better. Period. Dr Bunning is exceptional, team is outstanding. This organization is skilled and knows what they are doing, which is vastly important when it is your eye they are dealing with. 10+"

    - Bud Smith, Cataract Surgery Patient

  • "If you have a hearing problem as I have had, go see Jennifer Henson at Mountain Empire Eye Hearing and Audiology Services. Jennifer was recommended by my ENT and now I am hearing things I couldn't hear before. Thanks Jennifer, you are the best."

    - C. Atwell, Saltville VA, Patient

Bristol, Tennessee

Bristol, Tennessee

3185 W State St suite 2010, Bristol, TN 37620, USA

423.968.7555

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Bristol, Tennessee – Surgery Center

Bristol, Tennessee – Surgery Center

3185 W State St suite 2020, Bristol, TN 37620, USA

423.968.4141

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Cedar Bluff, Virginia

Cedar Bluff, Virginia

2308 Cedar Valley Dr, Cedar Bluff, VA 24609, USA

1.800.698.3019

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Marion, Virginia

Marion, Virginia

1020 Terrace Dr suite 100, Marion, VA 24354, USA

1.800.698.3019

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Pounding Mill, Virginia

Pounding Mill, Virginia

224 Clay Drive, Pounding Mill, VA 24637, USA

888.857.5033

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Wise, Virginia

Wise, Virginia

135 Plaza Road Southwest, Wise, VA 24293, USA

1.800.698.3019

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