Dean McGee Eye Institute - Oklahoma Health Center
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Oklahoma City, OK

I have been a patient of Dr Anil Patel for at least 9 years. If it were not for Dr Patel I wouldn't have not known that I was not having regular seizures I was having seizures due to a neurological that just happened to be found during my …

Had eye surgery, Simple eye floaters removal with DR. Martin Worrall on December 2025. Now I got dark curtain on my eye and flashes of light . And no treatment afterwards at all . I hope I don’t go blind on that eye. I do not recommend this Doctor .

Don’t waste your time here. You WILL have problems and when you write out a detailed explanation of the disrespect their response is ALWAYS “call us” NEVER “We will speak to our team/staff about this”. & when you do call they suddenly dont care about all the details they “needed”. Besides, you dont need a phone call to address a written problem.

They book there appointments and then make you wait 4 hours every time I come in and I have been coming in for over the last 4 years and it still hasn’t changed

I went to Dean McGee for simple issues dealing with Cataract bottom line they ruined my vision the surgeon has left the state and I am left with poor eye sight due to know problems with the recommended lens

larry haswell Local Guide·4906 reviews 19 hours ago New DON'T GO HERE !!!. The new ou health finance dept will overcharge you thousands of dollars !!! Doesn't care about you. Even if you have financial hardship. No help. The old finance dept was great. Had a great understanding if you couldn't afford it. They had a great financial charity program that i was approved for. I was on for 2 years. That is now gone. I was never notified of no more help financially anymore. Before this I went to my appt. Got my shot in my eye. Was supposedly be totally charged $265 a visit with financial help. Well ou health hit me with a thousands of dollars bill. Now the new ou health finance dept bills you thousands of dollars for a visit which I can't afford at all. They don't care attitude. So i wouldn't go here. You'll get billed thousands of dollars for one visit. Usually that's a sign that they are hurting financially. My dr. there got me approved for a new shot medicine 100% free. I got the shot and now I'm being billed for that free shot thousands of dollars from ou health. I'm on disability because of both my eyes have retina detachment. Blind in one eye, only 30% of vision left in my left eye. I need the shot monthly to save my sight. If not I'll go totally blind. So I'm scared and frustrated. When dean magee eye institute went with ou health that's when everything went downhill. Go somewhere else not here. Dean McGee Eye Institute you sold out to President and Chief Executive Officer of OU Health, Dr. Lofgren. What did he tell you for you to go with ou health ? Your reputation was great til you went with ou health. Now patients are suffering financially that you use to care about ! Patients and people talk. Other patients in my same financial situation have been talking with me. So i know about how they feel to. They said they can't afford to go here anymore after getting billed thousands of dollars more from ou health. And ou health charged me thousands of dollars for a free shot with new med that my Dr. got me approved for. Caring, respect, compassion, financial help is no longer at dean mcgee eye institute. Ou health took over. Dean McGee Eye Institute why after 50 years would you join ou health ? BIG MISTAKE !!!!!

They don’t take insurance and don’t tell you when you book or attend. They also gave me the incorrect prescription so the contacts I ordered using the prescription don’t work. They misspelled my name even though it’s right on the chart and two employees were rude to me. Go anywhere else.

They have been addressing the needs of eyes for a very long time and it shows - fast, efficient, thorough, smooth system to move through, answer the questions you have before you ask, lots of reminders so no excuse to forget any detail. A real pleasure to encounter such professionals.

First part of the visit went great the second half we waited in a room for an hr with hungry screaming kids while the doctor sat on the computer in another room for 30 mins and then proceeded to talk for another 30 mins. An hr in total just …

Came here assisting my elderly mother after a referral from OUs ER. We would NOT recommend it at all. …

I am still a patient! I have seen/ seeing several doctors trying to find out what's wrong with me and im still on the journey. I chose to try and speak with a representative Angela Ganther to address my issues of being double booked on a appt...having to come back the next day to make sure a specialist was booked all to find out what I was right the gentleman who said you are straight was indeed incorrect he didn't book the specialist. People leaving to go home early because it was during the Christmas holidays so noone truly wanted to help. Even left several messages for Ron in scheduling never returned my calls. But this organization is supposed to be the finest. Thank God there is usually one or two people who go above and beyond and dont get recognized. Thank you SHARON MCNEIL and SHERRY! SHARON went above and beyond to finish up and assist with my issue. I will be back next month for another appointment. Im praying now that I get a resolution or at least act like the company cares!

I once lauded Dean McGee Eye Institute for its courtesy and expertise, but my experience today completely changed that perception. The staff do not care at all about your time and will make you wait 2+ hours to see a doctor for a low-quality appointment. For context, my family and I reached the center at 12:30 PM (with appointment at 2 PM) and left it at 4:30 PM. Considering we drive 150 miles here for an annual check-up, that is absolutely ridiculous. No other medical facility requires patients to invest 4 hours of waiting for a 30 second appointment. There were multiple instances where I wanted to leave the waiting room and never come back again. Unfortunately, "never come back again" now seems like a reality after the disrespect and lack of professionalism I witnessed today. If you are going to make a patient wait that long, the doctor should at least compensate with a reasonable and detailed evaluation, rather than saying "goodbye" two seconds after saying "hi." Or if you are going to make us wait that long, don't give us an appointment in the first place. Absolutely devastated and do not recommend.

This whole process has been so stressful for me and my 10y old son. On September 26 he woke up at 1 am in so much excruciating pain. I took him to an urgent care and ER. They told me it may be pink eye but didn’t test anything and sent us home with antibiotics. It didn’t help at all. I went to an optometrist a week later and they said it’s a swollen nerve in his eye but it’s out of their scopes of competence and can’t help with treatment and he needs a pediatric neuro ophthalmologist. They referred me to Dean McGee and my son was seen on October 31st. He said, “it’s a swollen nerve but we need to find the cause.” Sent him to get so many tests on his eye and told us to come back in two weeks for a follow up with no medication to help with the pain or swelling. My son began to lose his vision! We went back November 15th and they said they wanted to run MORE tests and said he needs an MRI. He got more tests and we were there from 11 am til 3:30 pm. After waiting about 30 minutes they said they have to send us to somewhere else to get an MRI. We went to get it and they said if my child couldn’t remain still for an hour in this machine they would cancel the test. He lasted about 45 minutes with no sedation, no music, no comfort before he began crying. We left there with no results and no medication to help with pain. They asked us to come back on November 22 for a follow up and to review results. We went back on November 22 and they said they wanted to do a dye test to see which nerves work and which nerves don’t. At this point my child is tired of ending poked every week but still in so much pain and suffering. They recommended over the counter Tylenol which DID NOTHING!! Then the pediatric neuro ophthalmologist said they wanted a second opinion and referred us to a neurologist that luckily was still in the building. She looked at his eyes and said she wanted lab work done. So we had to leave and get blood drawn from him. Again left with no results and no treatment. They said they weren’t sure if they wanted to do a biopsy on his eye or give him oral anti inflammatory medicine. At this point I’m thinking can we have ANYTHING for pain. At the least. We were told to come back on November 29th. Now we’re here every week I’m missing work and he’s missing school I’m a single mother and just want my child to stop suffering. When we got to this appointment to follow up with the neurologist they said he needs to get ANOTHER ULTRASOUND. So I asked why do we keep doing this and every time I get here we’re told he needs more test, we get no results the same day, and no help with the pain or inflammation. They have all the equipment and nice staff but the waiting rooms are soooooo packed for all these tests you have to be prepared to not work at all. This has been a nightmare for my child the past couple of months. But this is an eye institute and I never imagined it would be this chaotic and them to be so unsure on what to do for so long. I just want my son to feel better that’s it. I gave it a 2 star only because of the staff being so nice but we’re not here for just that.

Dean Mcgee has great doctors. I would like to see them recognize some of the staff that works for them. I dealt with an employee named Cheryl working for Scott Samples been there for 22 years very good at her job and should be recognized.

Do not go here. The billing department is not helpful. Copay was paid by my mother the day before and confirmed as paid by the front desk. Then received a bill that the copay was not paid. Never received a receipt but showed proof of payment through credit card statement. They did not accept that and then threaten to turn into collections. Sounds like they messed up and applied my payment to someone else’s account. Either that or they are fraudulently charging patients. Sounds like an accounting issue that I hope an auditor finds.

Waited 9 months to contact me by email to tell me i owed money when I called very rude and would not send itemized statement. I liked Dr Bell but will not return. High turnover and the wait is ridiculous. …

My daughter was seeing Siatkowski don’t get me wrong he’s a great doctor yesterday I spent five hours at her eye appointment and that should not happen with a five-year-old. I really want to talk to somebody about this.

Dr. TAN and his office, are exceptionally awesome, great with patients, overall, our visits have always gone exceptionally well, A+++, they have been excellent with my son Jayden....I highly recommend this clinic.... Sincerely Robin C...

Went to dr. Patel for IIH. I was told I had to to manage my meds. The most dismissive BS appointment I’ve had yet and I’ve seen neurosurgeons. I had fulminant IIH but wasn’t diagnosed that way. Spent 3 weeks in the hospital while I progressively lost my vision (they every day they charted “vision improving”), they almost crashed my kidneys while trying high dose diamox saying that should be fine, to get me out of there I FINALLY got a shunt when I refused to have weekly LP’s instead. Went amazing. Eventually got a higher shunt setting which I needed. They told me they won’t go higher. I can’t come off the diamox with the current setting but everything is normal with both. When I FINALLY got it right I had to go see him. He told me if I’d just lose weigt I’d be cured. Funny enough I have been real thin and still had the symptoms then. Worse in fact. My mom also has it. It’s also known to not be enough in fulminant cases and it only works in some cases to begin with. It’s outdated info. I asked about symptoms that are well known with patients who have it(mood changes first, back pain, vertigo and lesser known JVD(2 main causes of death for IIH are suicide and casual issues like heart failure. Right sided heart failure is also undiagnosed in women who get IIH more often). He basically said those symptoms aren’t real. Then he wanted to taper me off the meds. Within 3 days I called them quietly crying, asking him if I could restart it because my low back hurt so bad(like it did pre surgery when my pressure was up. Unusual but true) and I could barely walk. Im pretty tough about pain and I lift people for a living. He said restart it. At every appointment then he asked me what I was doing to lose weight. Coincidentally I had already lost the recommended 30 lbs because my pituitary gland wasn’t squished anymore and it turns out you need that for your metabolism to work. Who knew? I already was on the AIP diet presurgery and I am an active person. I told him this too. In response he said some people just need to lose more than others(for reference: I’m a size 12. Not super thin but not about to be the next 600lb life either). He also told me I shouldn’t need the meds. Sure I shouldn’t but apparently I do. I quit going after that. He’s supposed to be the best in the area but he hasn’t even looked at research within the last ten years apparently and there was no real research before that. I’m used to it though. My neurosurgeon post op had no idea how my shunt works either so I had to read the manual myself and had NO clue you shouldn’t fly with a shunt or even just moderate-severe IIH unless it’s been controlled for at least 6 months. My pcp and I handle it on our own now as long as I don’t have a problem. Pretty sure if I DO have a problem it’s not going to go well for me based on all of the specialists I’ve seen for it so far. If you have IIH and you are reading this you are not crazy. Losing weight may help and for some it CAN put you in remission but not all. Mood swings, migraines, some back pain along your spine, tinnitus, vertigo with or without nausea/vomitting, cognitive issues and cardiac abnormalities can all be related. My HR was always 120-160’s preshunt and it’s normal now. My diastolic was high and I was on my way to heart failure, also normal now. If you are losing your vision with worsening double vision or warped spots in your vision that is an Emergency so it doesn’t become permenant. Don’t let them steamroll you until you shut up. You deserve better.

Recently underwent a Corneal Cross Linking surgery with Dr. Riaz in his Cornea Department. I’ve received top care from Dr. Riaz and his entire team. From getting pictures of my eye to the day of surgery with Ms. Emily accompanying me with detailed instructions and expectations - Dean McGee has done a fantastic job with my eye care. Dr. Riaz even came in on a Saturday just to make sure my eye was progressing as expected. They undoubtedly are the premiere eye care center in OKC and likely in the state.

I loved dr. RHEA SHINKOWSKI! SHE IS VERY CARING AND ANSWERED MY HUSBANDS AND MINE QUESTIONS. SHE IS A VERY GOOD DR. WHILE WAITING FOR HER, SHE HAD HER ASSISTANT COME IN AND THEN WHEN AFTER SEEING THE LAST PATIENT SHE CAME IN. IT WAS NICE TO HAVE SOMEONE COME IN WHILE SHE WAS WITH ANOTHER PATIENT. IT WAS AS IF SHE DIDNT WANT TO KEEP ME WAITING . I WOULD LOVE TO KEEP SEEING HER .

Dean McGee eye institute is a wonderful place. I have trusted them with my eye care for the last 11 years and never been disappointed. My daughter had a stroke and her vision was really giving her problems. The doctors at Dean McGee have …

TERRIBLE professionalism from MOST staff from the assistants to the doctors to the person evaluating the reviews. their response to their assistants laughing at a name while greeting me was "sorry for the laughter. we were laughing because she said it wrong. but sorry if that makes you uncomfortable". clearly they don't care what mannerisms their staff has. take your business ANYWHERE ELSE.

The staff at Dean McGee is top tier. The friendly greeting I get every time I come in contact with them is great, but one particular staff member stands out and that is Ron. He always delivers excellent customer service. It doesn’t matter what time of day it is, or if I have called a numerous amount of times for whatever reason. He always goes above and beyond to help, to check on my appointments, answers questions, get answers for my concerns and he does it with such a positive attitude. A lot of times customer service is over looked or only acknowledged when it’s a bad review but I want everyone to know how awesome he is at doing his job. You can tell he really enjoys what does and I just want to say Thank You!!!

Well I would leave a detailed review if I could, but given the fact that I’ve been trying to contact them for 4 months with zero contact from anybody, I can’t. I’ve called over a dozen times and I’ve left 5 messages. I’ve been on hold for over a collective 45+ minutes at this point. Not even sure what to say. I’ve never had this much trouble contacting somebody over a referral. If somebody there reads this please listen to my messages and give me a call. Or answer the phone. Literally anything, I’m begging you. Update: I was finally able to get into the facility. Only after waking up with a blind spot in my vision, being taken to the ER, and have the ER Physician call them himself to get me in. Even after all of that, it still took them multiple days to see me. All that being said, the entire staff are amazing. They were super helpful, clearly cared for their patients, and were very articulate and insightful. If it weren’t for their absolutely horrible phone system, scheduling staff, and phone operators, it’d be an easy 5 stars. The institute itself is top notch, their phone operators are not. I’d recommend just doing all business you have with them in person. For now I will update it to a 3 stars instead of a 1.

I strongly recommend Dr. Liles for eye care. He was incredibly gentle and patient with my autistic daughter, making her feel comfortable throughout the visit. His feedback was clear and very helpful, which I truly appreciated

Dr Ben Harvey is outstanding, and his staff was excellent. Very nice facility and LOT of patients, which is always a good sign. Dr Harvey is a fellow Red Raider.

Before I came here I was put off by the reviews of long wait times. It’s true, the waits can be long, but I think people are misunderstanding the structure of the facility. Some of the doctors are on triage and doing emergency eye care in between their regularly scheduled appointments. I’m willing to wait so that other people can get the vision-saving care they need. Dr. Newton is a fantastic, kind, and intelligent healthcare provider and she put me at ease even with scary results. She has a commitment to finding the root causes of your symptoms and getting you better. Thank you to Dr. Newton and her office. Your work is so appreciated!

In Jan. of 2022 my optomistrist told me the dry AMD in my right eye was starting to turn wet. She suggested I see a retinal specialist. I had three appointments with very professional specialists and they started the injections. Soon after my third injection a-family member Who is a medical professional suggested I go to Dean McGee. My first doctor was nice and had an impressive resume. He gave me no feedback whatsoever. After one year of injections I asked to be transferred to a doctor with better patient communications. When the appointment arrived I waited two hours. When I met the doctor he seemed perturbed and most of his replies were cryptic. He checked my eyes and told me to come back in six months which he later changed to three months. I had been getting injections every six weeks so obviously I was curious. No explanation was offered. I am very concerned about my sight, but have no idea about my future.

This was my first time here. The doctor was amazing. She was kind, welcoming and did a thorough check. She described my history well. She made sure I understood everything. She had me schedule a follow up and just made me feel amazing. The technician was awesome. He was thorough gave the clearest instructions I’ve ever heard. When I had to wait in between those two , I was sat in a comfortable place that was calm. I just truly enjoyed the experience. Thank you so much. Even the front desk lady was amazing. She was kind of helpful.

Had an appointment for11:00 for my husband. We arrived at 10:30 and were checked in by Robert. We waited 2 hours I went to check was told Dr Riaz had an unexpected surgery and he was running behind. Waited another hour went back and checked again and the girl then checked my husband’s name and was told he had never been checked in. Told them we were leaving and would reschedule or find someone else. Went to the original desk where we originally checked in. Robert said he did check him in. A really nice girl, Alonjah finally was very kind, caring, and apologetic. She deserves 10 stars. She scheduled a new appointment and was the only person we dealt with who seemed to care. We even talked to the Manager at the other desk. She was worthless. What a horrible experience and waste of four hours counting our travel time. My husband is 81 years old and did not deserve this treatment. Dr Riaz is wonderful but Dean McGee needs to hire some new staff and teach them about customer service.

The staff is nice and that is about the only good thing here. The system is insane. I have had a different doctor every single time I’ve been in because they don’t have a retina specialist apparently. All of the doctors I have seen have …

My son was seen by Dr Nathan Liles today and he is amazing. My son has special needs and typically struggles at his appointments but Dr Liles was so patient and kind. He explained everything and was very mindful of our concerns. We didn’t wait long except for when my son’s eyes were being dilated which is typical.