# Cedar Valley Eye Care, Waterloo IA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ia/waterloo/cedar-valley-eye-care-waterloo-ia. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-27.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ia/waterloo/cedar-valley-eye-care-waterloo-ia

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## In short

Cedar Valley Eye Care is an eye care center in Waterloo, IA. Its AI Score is 54 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 909 E San Marnan Dr, Waterloo, IA 50702, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 5 PM · Fri 8 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (319) 233-2020 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 159 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 27, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 909 E San Marnan Dr, Waterloo, IA 50702, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Cedar Valley Eye Care offers complete eye care for the entire family, including vision examinations, contact lenses and modern optical products, all-laser iLASIK (available locally only at Cedar Valley Eye Care), treatments for glaucoma, cataracts and retinal conditions and cosmetic BOTOX® services. We also feature the latest equipment and fashions in eyewear, lenses and coatings, including polarized sunglasses and anti-reflective coatings. Your eye-care needs change over time, but what doesn’t change is the need for excellent eye care at any age and Cedar Valley Eye Care’s comprehensive line of vision services and products has you covered. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Fri 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Cedar Valley Eye Care - Waterloo | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (319) 233-2020 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Cataract | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cataracts 700x467 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Contact lenses | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Corneal page | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Corneal transplants | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dropless cataract surgery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Eyelid | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/?utm_source=GMBSocialClimb | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 8 services Cedar Valley offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cataracts 700x467 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Corneal page |  |  |  | From their website |
| Corneal transplants |  |  |  | From their website |
| Dropless cataract surgery |  |  |  | From their website |
| Eyelid |  |  |  | From their website |
| Contact lenses |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cataract |  |  |  | From their website |
| Eye exams |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Cedar Valley

Address: 909 E San Marnan Dr, Waterloo, IA 50702, USA. Phone: (319) 233-2020. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 5 PM · Fri 8 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Cedar Valley Eye Care offers complete eye care for the entire family, including vision examinations, contact lenses and modern optical products, all-laser iLASIK (available locally only at Cedar Valley Eye Care), treatments for glaucoma, cataracts and retinal conditions and cosmetic BOTOX® services. We also feature the latest equipment and fashions in eyewear, lenses and coatings, including polarized sunglasses and anti-reflective coatings. Your eye-care needs change over time, but what doesn’t change is the need for excellent eye care at any age and Cedar Valley Eye Care’s comprehensive line of vision services and products has you covered."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Izumi Sushi & Hibachi Waterloo | Japanese restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Perkins Restaurant & Bakery | Restaurant | 4 min walk |
| Wildwood Rd and Hammond Ave | Bus stop | 4 min walk |
| Hammond Ave & Wildwood Rd | Bus stop | 4 min walk |
| Home Depot | Bus stop | 5 min walk |
| Hammond Ave and Flammang Dr | Bus stop | 7 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 159 reviews: Google 159. (Confirmed, read July 9, 2026.)

Cedar Valley Eye Care is distinguished by its knowledgeable doctors and efficient service, though some customers have reported issues with phone interactions. (AI guess, from 159 reviews.)


### What people like

- Timely appointment scheduling
- Efficient office procedures
- Kind and caring staff


### What people do not like

- Poor phone customer service


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 2 of the 2 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### opening hours at Cedar Valley in Waterloo, what are they these days?


### Does Cedar Valley split it over a few months?


### can I ask for numbing at Cedar Valley without it being weird?


### people keep recommending Cedar Valley, what for?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### What eye care center questions is Waterloo asking AI most?


### any last minute appts here?


### who is actually holding the needle here?


### Cedar Valley or Target for Experienced optometrists and ophthalmologists?


### Saturdays at Cedar Valley, are they open?


### last update from here was when?


### do I need to book this place or can I just turn up?


### walking in for a consult, what happens


### genuinely, what is good about this one


### services here, what do people go in for?


### best eye care center in Waterloo


### parking at Cedar Valley, where does everyone put the car?


### are prices in Waterloo higher than everywhere else


## What AI gets wrong about Cedar Valley

We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about Cedar Valley. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 23, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 10, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026: 2515 Cyclone Drive | 909 E San Marnan Dr, Waterloo, IA 50702, USA |
| Phone | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026: 319-433-3000 | (319) 233-2020 |


## The AI Score: 54 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Waterloo eye care centers run 25 to 54. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cedar Valley scores 54, above the Waterloo average of 40. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cedar Valley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 12 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 91 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 59 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 54 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 61 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Cedar Valley |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cedar Valley Eye Care | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/?utm_source=GMBSocialClimb | Subject of this page |
| Waterloo, Iowa | City | #city |  | City Cedar Valley is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Waterloo, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Waterloo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia/waterloo/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Waterloo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia/waterloo


### Nearby

- /west-des-moines: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia/west-des-moines
- /marshalltown: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia/marshalltown
- /cedar-rapids: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia/cedar-rapids


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Iowa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ia


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJx0p6wi1S5YcRuH1ZpbjlzFY (accessed Jul 9, 2026)
- [2] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/cataract/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/cataract-surgery/cataracts-700x467/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/cataract-surgery/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/contact-lenses/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/contact-lenses/contact-lenses-2/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [7] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/corneal-transplants/corneal-page/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [8] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/corneal-transplants/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [9] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/dropless-cataract-surgery/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [10] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/eye-exams/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [11] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/eyelid-surgery/eyelid/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [12] cedarvalleyeyecare.com, https://cedarvalleyeyecare.com/services/eyelid-surgery/ (accessed Sep 18, 2026)