The World Trade Center
Worker and Volunteer
Medical Screening Program


ATTENTION

WTC Workers and Volunteers

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 here.

For more information, please check out the following:


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 sitesin Nassau and Suffolk Counties
Westchester: Mount Sinai Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine / Hudson ValleyDivision at St. John’s Riverside Hospital
New Jersey (Piscataway): UMDNJ Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute

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