Medical screening examinations will be provided at the following NY-NJ locations:

Manhattan

• Mount Sinai -Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Bellevue/NYU Occupational & Environmental Medicine Clinic

Queens

• Queens College Center for the Biology of Natural Systems

Long Island

• SUNY Stony Brook/L.I. Occupational & Environmental Health Center with various examination sites in Nassau and Suffolk Counties

Westchester

• Mount Sinai -Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine / Hudson Valley Division at St. John’s Riverside Hospital

New Jersey (Piscataway)

• UMDNJ Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute

In addition, screening examinations will be offered elsewhere in the U.S. through the Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics.

The number of applicants for medical screening examinations may well exceed the 8,500 appointments for which funding is currently available. Temporary eligibility criteria have been established to enable the program to begin scheduling appointments for medical screening examinations. The most heavily exposed individuals will be the first to be scheduled. The temporary criteria are based on the time period, duration and location of WTC on-site activities as indicators of hazardous exposure. These criteria will be periodically reviewed and modified. Thus, an individual who performed WTC or Staten Island landfill rescue/recovery activities and does not meet the initial criteria may become eligible if and when the criteria are broadened.

Note:

Federal and New York State employees and New York City Firefighters are not eligible for examination in this program because the Federal government has funded their medical screening examinations under separate programs.

If you provided WTC site or Staten Island landfill rescue/recovery services, call the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening hotline to learn more about receiving a free and confidential medical screening examination. The Hotline receptionist will ask you a series of questions taking about five minutes of your time. If you qualify based on the provisional criteria in effect at the time of your call you will immediately be scheduled for a medical screening examination appointment. If you do not qualify at that time, with your permission your name will be placed on a waiting list for possible scheduling at a future time.