Queens Ground Zero Workers Health Watch World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment

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• Personal Author:
  Markowitz SB
• Description:
  Over 50,000 men and women worked at Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City, and at the Staten Island landfill, the principal depository for WTC debris. Firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics, construction workers, utility workers, volunteers, and others carried out rescue-and-recovery operations, restored essential services, cleaned up massive amounts of debris. Within weeks of September 11, workers began noting symptoms most commonly involving the aero-digestive tract, i.e. - upper and lower respiratory tract and gastro-esophageal reflux symptoms. Mental symptoms, especially associated with trauma-related stress were also reported. In 2002, the Federal Government established the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program (MSP) was established in the summer of 2002 in order to identify possible WTC-related health effects in WTC responders. The MSP was a multi-center clinical screening program that provided free standardized examinations to responders between July 2002 and April 2004. Examinations included medical, mental health, and exposure assessment questionnaires, physical examination, spirometry, both pre- and post-bronchodilator, and chest X-ray. CBNS of Queens College undertook WTC MSP screening examinations between April 2003 and June 2004.With direct funding from NIOSH, CBNS established the WTC Medical Monitoring Program (MMP), beginning on June 1, 2004. In October of 2006, the Queens Clinical Center received supplemental funding from NIOSH to provide treatment services for participants with WTC-related mental and/or physical health conditions under a program that was entitled: The WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (WTCMMTP). The aims of the WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program were to: A. Provide comprehensive and integrated health monitoring and treatment services to eligible WTC responders; B. Provide clinical data to contribute to the health surveillance of WTC responders; C. Characterize the evolution of existing WTC-related health conditions, as well as determine new and emerging health consequences; D. Assist WTC responders and their families with essential services, including public benefits workers' compensation and LODI and other support services as needed. Queens College was one of five clinical sites in the New York metropolitan area providing monitoring and treatment under the WTCMMTP. All sites fed monitoring results data to the Data and Coordinating Center at Mount Sinai for data analysis. From 2003 to June 30, 2011, Queens College enrolled 2,875 participants in the WTCMMTP total monitoring cohort of the Queens Clinical Center. As of June 30, 2011, there were 454 active patients receiving treatment for WTC-related conditions. Of these patients, 358 were receiving care for physical health conditions, 210 were receiving care for mental health conditions, and 114 were receiving care for both physical and mental WTC-related health conditions. Queens WTC clinical data contributed to published research studies from 2003 to the present that have documented the prevalence, incidence, and persistence of numerous respiratory, gastrointestinal, and mental health conditions that were caused or aggravated by WTC-related exposures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergencies Emergency Responders Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  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

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• 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:
  1-22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046124
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-104132
• 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-008275, 2011 Sep; :1-22
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Queens College
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040601
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20100630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218592/cdc_218592_DS1.pdf
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