I have been seeing Dr. Hartstein for many years. He answers your questions, and he goes over every thing that he is doing.
When I have an issue, I am able to get in immediately. They fit me in and I don't have to wait too long.
I am glad Dr. Hartstein is my Eye Doctor.

He has a great friendly staff. Dr Hartstein is very thorough and cares about his patients. I have enjoyed having him as my eye doctor. He also did my eyelid lift several years ago and I am very pleased.

I've been seeing Dr. Harstein for about 30 years and he's professional and takes care of his patients. Came in with a case of double pink eye today (7/11/24) He looked at my eyes and was able to give me a proper diagnosis and then prescribed the proper treatment, which includes eye drops. If you're a patient of Dr. Harstein and need treatment, don't be afraid to make a call or book an appointment. The gift of sight is too precious to not take care of.

Excellent skill, caring and friendly staff. Prompt appointments. I would highly recommend I recently had Cataract surgery-, am completely satisfied with communications, and results

Dr Hartstein and staff are very nice and professional. Office is very nice as well. I've been a patient they for over 10 years. I would recommend them.

Dr. Hartstein is an amazing doctor! He genuinely cares about his patients and is very accommodating to all patients. I would highly recommend this doctor to my family and friends.

Saw Dr. Hartstein as a new patient this week and was very happy with how thorough the exam was and how well he explained everything. The office staff were very nice as well.

Went in for a cataract consultations. Dr. Hartstein was very through in my exam. Went over all my options and answered all my questions. He is a wonderful Ophthalmologist.

La Palma Eye Care Center I can say a great place to have them to take care of your eyes, I have my cataract surgery March 18, 2024 with Dr. I. Harstein and he is highly recommended, highly educated, very knowledgeable and also very nice doctor, thorough in his examination and explain it well to his patient, he also take care of my wife and my sister.

Front office personnel are excellent and also very nice.

My family has been coming here for years. Mom is now 93 years young and the one doctor she loves seeing is Doctor Hartstein even though it's a 45 minute drive to his office. He is professional, friendly, kind and empathetic. Not a surprise his staff is the same way. I will be seeing him in March as a new patient and I'm blessed that he has taken such great care of my family. Thank you - Ruby & Sherri

I'm not a patient here, but I did call the office because I was in distress from an emergency involving my eye. I tried all morning contacting many offices to figure out where I can come in for emergency care because of an infection I had. Unfortunately, I'm in a transition period with health insurance and all I have at the moment is medi-cal insurance. After contacting so many offices and being declined acceptance due to limitations of my insurance, I started to feel really helpless especially because Thanksgiving is around the corner and I had ZERO luck.

I was stressed. Just imagine something scary happening to your body, and you have no idea what is going on. To make matters worse, spending all morning contacting multiple offices, only to be left helpless. This all changed when I called Dr. Hartstein's office. I spoke with the wonderful Suzette (you are honestly the best and I appreciate you SO much. ) To no surprise, Suzette also informed me that there are limitations to my medi-cal insurance at their office. But instead of ending the call and letting me go, she asked me what was going on... even after explaining to me that my insurance won't work here. She took the time to listen to my concern, look up my insurance and redirect me to other offices that could take me.

I never became a patient here, but I just wanted to leave a note on the quality of care this office provides not only for their patients but for the community around them. Anyone coming here can trust that you're going to be in great hands.

Dr. Hartstein, you have a wonderful team here. The world needs more people like you guys. Thank you so much again. Wishing you all the best!

Dr. Hartstein has been my doctor since 2017, when I first moved to OC. He is a true professional. He is knowledgeable and caring. During an emergency, he was responsive to my concerns of retinal detachment, even through the weekend. His staff is friendly and courteous.

Excellent Dr and staff. Dr Hartstein practices great medicine/surgery (ophthalmology) and his staff is very patient oriented. I can go to any ophthalmologist I choose; and consistently choose La Palma Eye Care Center; and have done so for decades. I even referred family to him for surgery. Excellent outcome, of course!

I don't know if you've ever had a scratched cornea before but it sucks! I am so grateful to the staff and Dr. Hartstein for fitting me in for an urgent appointment. It was extremely difficult to find a location that would actually take me on such short notice and I was in a lot of pain. I am incredibly grateful I was able to get the medication I needed to alleviate the pain in my eye and to help my corneal ulcer to heal. I wish I lived closer because I'm a huge fan of Dr. Hartstein and his staff and would absolutely make this place my go to location for all my eye needs.

Long time patients will continued to have Dr Hartstein care for our eye health.
His education is top level, Tuft's Medical school, residency at UCLA's Jules Stein. Don't you want your Opthomologist educated at a great school?
Our previous Optometrist (is not an MD), had my husband test several times a year to treat pre-glaucoma. Eye drops, pressure tests by a certain eye tech, etc. Yes, Optometrists are highly trained. However, they aren't physicians & can't do anything surgically.

Dr H solved all this by using a laser treatment. He's great. While I don't have major eye issues, I will continue to have Dr H take care of my families eye health.

So he's not funny, he's pleasant. He delivers medical advise clearly & speaks in easier to follow layman's terms. His front desk issues (cranky receptionist) appear resolved.

Oh, and by the way the friend that referred us has been blind in one eye from a childhood accident. Dr H did do a procedure. It couldn't bring back the issue in that one eye. However, he at least has partial "shadow" vision. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it's better than it was