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HR and payroll for optometry practices.
Optometry practices face HR realities a general HR firm rarely understands: hiring opticians and ophthalmic techs, keeping the front desk and billing covered, cross-training a small team, and staying current with California labor rules. We handle the HR, payroll, and operations so you can focus on patient care.
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HR Bloom Partners is a California HR and payroll consultancy that works specifically with optometry and optical practices. It was founded in 2025 by Marianne Garcia-Cervantes after more than 20 years of leadership in the optical and behavioral-health industries, and works remotely with practices across California from its base in the Inland Empire. Services cover hiring opticians and ophthalmic techs, onboarding, employee handbooks, payroll, and California compliance.
Who this is for
The HR realities of an optometry office
An optical practice is a small business with clinical, retail, and administrative work happening at once. The hiring and the day-to-day people management look nothing like a generic office, and that is exactly where most HR support falls short.
What makes optometry HR different
- Hiring opticians, ophthalmic techs, and front-desk staff who each need different onboarding
- Small teams that cross-train, so one departure leaves a real gap
- Retail-plus-clinical schedules, including evenings and Saturdays
- Onboarding that has to cover patient privacy and practice-specific systems from day one
Where practices get stuck
- No written handbook, or one copied from a template that does not fit an optical practice
- Payroll run off the side of the desk, with overtime and meal-break rules easy to miss
- Turnover that is expensive when every hire takes weeks to get productive
- Owners and office managers spending clinical hours on people problems
What we handle
HR, payroll, and operations for your practice
Hiring & onboarding
Finding opticians, techs, and front-desk staff, and onboarding them to your systems and patient-care standards from day one.
Employee handbooks
Clear, compliant handbooks written for how an optical practice actually runs, not a generic template.
Payroll
Accurate, on-time payroll with overtime, meal-break, and sick-leave rules handled correctly.
California compliance
Keeping your practice current on wage-and-hour, breaks, sick leave, and required postings as the rules change.
Leadership & coaching
Supporting owners and office managers so the team works well together and stays.
Operations
Tightening the day-to-day systems behind scheduling, people, and payroll.
California compliance
The rules that trip up small practices
California is one of the most demanding states for employers. For a small practice without a dedicated HR person, these are the areas where mistakes get expensive.
- Meal and rest break rules for hourly clinical and retail staff
- California paid sick leave, accrual, and carryover
- Overtime and wage-and-hour for non-exempt employees
- Final-paycheck timing when someone leaves
- Required workplace postings and notices, kept current
- Onboarding paperwork and classification done right the first time
How it works
Getting started is simple
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Book a free consultation
Tell us what you are dealing with. The first conversation is free, with no pressure.
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We learn your practice
We get to know your roles, your team, and where HR or payroll is slowing you down.
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HR that fits
We handle it as a focused, short-term project, so you can focus on patients.
Questions
Optometry HR questions, answered
Do you only work with large optometry practices?
No. We work with solo and small practices as well as growing multi-location groups. Engagements are project-based: a handbook, a clean-up of your payroll setup, or a short-term HR and payroll contract of six months or less.
Can you run our payroll, or only advise on it?
Both. We can handle payroll end to end, or set it up and coach your team to run it, with the overtime, meal-break, and sick-leave rules handled correctly for California.
We do not have an HR person. Where do we start?
Most of our optometry clients do not have a dedicated HR person. We start with a free consultation, look at where the risk and the time drain are, and give you a clear plan you can act on.
Do you write employee handbooks for optical practices?
Yes. We write handbooks tailored to how an optical practice actually runs, covering your roles, schedules, and California requirements, not a generic template.
What areas do you serve?
We are based in the Inland Empire, between Rancho Cucamonga and Riverside, and work remotely with practices across California.
Bring HR Bloom into your optometry practice.
Book a free consultation and we will figure out what your practice needs. No obligation.
Need optical operations, billing audits, or staff training as well? See EyeAlign Virtual Partners.
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Serving Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, and the greater Inland Empire across California.