World Trade Center Health Program : providing healthcare to people affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; World Trade Center Health Program
• Description:
  The World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program provides specialized medical monitoring and treatment for responders to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, at the Pentagon, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania (PA), and for survivors in the New York City Disaster Area. As a result of their exposure to airborne toxins and other hazardous conditions arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, responders and survivors now face serious physical and mental health issues, including cancer. Med-ical benefits are provided to eligible responders and survivors to monitor, evaluate, and treat specific WTC-related health conditions through seven Clinical Centers of Excellence (CCEs) in the New York met-ropolitan area and through a Nationwide Provider Network (NPN) in all 50 states.
  
  In addition to providing medical care, the WTC Health Program funds medical research to identify new health conditions that may be related to 9/11 exposures and effective treatment for covered health con-ditions through both individual investigators and the WTC Health Registry, a program of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The WTC Health Program also engages in outreach to people who may be eligible for the Program but have not yet enrolled, and provides education to current members on Program benefits.The WTC Health Program is administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20049549
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2017141
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  World Trade Center Health Program
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  New York City (NY) ; World Trade Center (NY) ; New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049549
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:abd354abb17d6e11da8fe227c08a65dc7c9c60d9d2d96d63c05959a8b8911fc02d6f086595ad38a31be34d44c8b7346a0d338c86c7080ed2c4c213a7f268450a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44832/cdc_44832_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 260.74 KB ]