Ontario Retina Associates (Dr. Parth Shah)- Hamilton

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# Ontario Retina Associates (Dr. Parth Shah)- Hamilton, Hamilton ON: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/on/hamilton/ontario-retina-associates-dr-parth-shah-hamilton-on. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-29.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/on/hamilton/ontario-retina-associates-dr-parth-shah-hamilton-on

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## In short

Ontario Retina Associates (Dr. Parth Shah)- Hamilton is an eye care center. Its AI Score is 20 of 100, which is poor.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 88 Wentworth St S, Hamilton, ON L8N 2Y9, Canada |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Sat 8 AM to 12 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (905) 522-3563 |
| Rating | 5.0 across 4 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 29, 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 | 88 Wentworth St S, Hamilton, ON L8N 2Y9, Canada | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | The office of Dr. Parth Shah, and formerly Dr. James Martin. This practice offers care in medical and surgical retina. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Ontario Retina Associates (Dr. Parth Shah)- Hamilton | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (905) 522-3563 | 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 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Medical retina care | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Surgical retina care | AI guess |  |
| Team | Dr. James Martin |  | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Links | Website | https://www.ontarioretina.ca/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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## The team

1 person is named on this page.


### Dr. James Martin

| Field | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reviews say | 1 review names Dr. Martin | AI guess |  |


## Visiting Ontario Retina

Address: 88 Wentworth St S, Hamilton, ON L8N 2Y9, Canada. Phone: (905) 522-3563. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Sat 8 AM to 12 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "The office of Dr. Parth Shah, and formerly Dr. James Martin. This practice offers care in medical and surgical retina."


### Parking and getting in

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## Reputation

5.0 average across 4 reviews: Google 4. (Confirmed, read October 29, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 4 reviews.)


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## Questions people ask


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### anywhere cheaper than this place in Hamilton that is still good?


### pain wise, what is it like here


### Does Ontario Retina split it over a few months?


### going rate for eye doctors locally, any idea


### best ophthalmology clinic in Hamilton, ON


### is Mountain Eye any better


### parking here, how bad is it?


### address for this place, anyone have it?


### Turning up here for the first time, what happens?


### never been to Ontario Retina in Hamilton, how does it go?


### what time does Ontario Retina actually open?


### recovery after Ontario Retina, what do people actually say?


### anyone been on a Sunday, were they trading


### regulars here, who do you book with?


### same day appts, does that ever happen here


### booking ahead here, how far do people go?


### anything I should sort out before a consult at Ontario Retina?


### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in?


### Any membership pricing at Ontario Retina?


## The AI Score: 20 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Hamilton eye care centers run 20 to 66. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Ontario Retina scores 20, below the Hamilton average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Ontario Retina |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | 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. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 66 | 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 |  | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 16 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

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 Ontario Retina |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ontario Retina Associates (Dr. Parth Shah)- Hamilton | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.ontarioretina.ca/ | Subject of this page |
| Dr. James Martin | Person | #team-james-martin |  |  |
| Hamilton, Ontario | City | #city |  | City Ontario Retina 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 Hamilton, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Hamilton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/hamilton/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Hamilton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/hamilton


### Nearby

- /burlington: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/burlington
- /oakville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/oakville
- /mississauga: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/mississauga
- /toronto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/toronto
- /ottawa: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/ottawa
- /brampton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on/brampton


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Ontario: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/on


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJu_3-KtSbLIgRTYgCDz0CMWE (accessed Oct 29, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 29, 2026; Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 29, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 29, 2026)