The WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program – Long Island Clinical Center of Excellence

Details

• Personal Author:
  Luft BJ
• Description:
  The Long Island Clinical Center of Excellence at SUNY- Stony Brook began serving the healthcare needs of WTC responders in the months following the disaster. Over 8 years later, this program grew to serve over 6,000 WTC Long Island-based responders. Due to the broad geographic distribution of the Long Island responder cohort, our Long Island Clinical Center of Excellence established multiple clinical sites in Nassau and Suffolk counties that are centralized by a clinical and administrative center in Islandia, NY. The Islandia space is the hub for retention, outreach, data, communication, medical record storage, and professional staff office space for those who travel between Suffolk and Nassau county sites. This center allows for the seamless coordination of services, outreach, data collection and quality assurance to ensure consistent, high-quality care is afforded to all Long Island responders. The mission of the program is to assist WTC responders in the management of their WTC-related illnesses, to detect and treat these conditions as early as possible, to encourage high-adherence to prescribed treatment, to identify health risk behaviors that may contribute to symptom burden, to educate the responder on preventive health behaviors, and to provide support services that will help the responders improve their well-being, cope with persistent health conditions and reduce their disability. LESSONS LEARNED: The ramifications of long-term health effects affect the worker's well-being, social functioning, job functioning, medical care costs and we suspect, mortality rates. Although this program cannot answer whether or not these risks to health and safety of the WTC worker could have been prevented, it does underline the importance of taking all necessary steps to protect the worker. It is hopeful the findings from this program would inform decision-makers in the event of a future disaster, so that the imprudent practices seen at the World Trade Center disaster are not repeated. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Disaster Planning Emergencies Emergency Responders Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Decision-making Disaster-planning Emergency-responders Emergency-response Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-programs Health-services Medical-examinations Medical-monitoring Medical-research Medical-screening Rescue-workers Surveillance-programs

  More +
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045681
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-103724
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U10-OH-008216, 2011 Dec; :1-23
• Contact Point Address:
  Benjamin J. Luft, MD, Director of the Long Island WTC Clinical Center of Excellence at SUNY- Stony Brook New York
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  State University of New York Stony Brook
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040715
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20110630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:35fa7b6a45a5ce34bb83b57fdcdfa023c5242c3cffbdcd1c29d8fe26f6a0a4844b65bc79e4b5d6800393ef0e1fa82f8f10d463dec7b8ed21419dc363c02d19ef
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218589/cdc_218589_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 556.45 KB ]