The World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program

If you were a worker or volunteer at or near the World Trade Center site or the Staten Island Landfill following the September 11 terrorist attacks and you were involved in:

• Rescue
• Recovery
• Cleanup
• Restoration of essential services
• Debris removal or sifting

You may be eligible for this federally funded program, which will be conducted by a consortium of occupational medicine providers, under the direction of The Mount Sinai Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health.

The World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program will offer:

• Free and confidential medical screening examinations
• Referrals for follow-up medical care
• Occupational health education

Call the toll-free WTC Medical Screening Hotline today for more information and to register:

1-888-702-0630

Or complete a self-administered questionnaire and mail or fax it back to the address or number listed in the form. We can also be reached via email.[mailto:vincent.coluccio@mssm.edu]

For more information, please check out the following:

• Program flyer
• Program fact sheet
• Directions to our upper Manhattan center (Mount Sinai)
• Health issues in the aftermath of  the World Trade Center disaster

Federal funding for this program will support 7,500 medical screening examinations to begin July 15 in the Greater NY-NJ metropolitan area—with 1,000 additional screening examinations offered elsewhere in the US through the Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics.

New York/New Jersey participating partners and examination locations will include:

• Manhattan: Mount Sinai Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Bellevue/NYU Occupational & Environmental Medicine Clinic
• Queens: Queens College Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
• Long Island: SUNY Stony Brook/L.I. Occupational & Environ. Health Center with various examination sites in Nassau and Suffolk Counties
• Westchester: Mount Sinai Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine / Hudson Valley Division at St. John’s Riverside Hospital
• New Jersey (Piscataway): UMDNJ Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute

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For more information visit the screening program's Web site, www.wtcexams.org.