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Queens Health Center for 9/11 First Responders Relocates to Larger Facility in Rego Park
The North Shore-LIJ Health System today announced the relocation of the Queens World Trade Center (WTC) Clinical Center of Excellence from Flushing to a larger facility in Rego Park. The new 3,650-square-foot center, about 50 percent larger than the Flushing facility, is part of a federally funded program that provides medical and mental health services for WTC responders in the borough of Queens.
Queens gets upgraded medical facility for 9/11 responders
Money from the long-stalled Zadroga Bill has trickled down to Queens. North Shore-LIJ officials unveiled a new treatment center in Rego Park on Monday that will cater specifically to those who volunteered or worked at Ground Zero following 9/11.
9/11 hero health crisis
A 9/11 responder who raced to Ground Zero to search for survivors is now in a race to survive a life-threatening kidney disease. Rich Volpe, an NYPD narcotics detective, heard the news about the World Trade Center attacks while off duty near his Westchester County home and made a beeline for the disaster site, arriving minutes after the second tower collapsed. He joined in the frantic digging for victims in the mountainous, smoking rubble.
$$ for nothing at WTC fund
The city is sitting on a 9/11 nest egg of more than $350 million. The WTC Captive Insurance Co., a nonprofit given $1 billion from Congress to cover claims from the Ground Zero cleanup, has disposed of more than 12,000 suits, and few — if any — are left in court, officials say.
Sequester Swipes 9/11 Compensation To Pay Down Deficit
The victims and survivors of 9/11 are being forced again to sacrifice — this time by the sequestration budget cuts that are dipping into revenue set aside for ailing first responders and using it for deficit reduction.
Gillibrand, Schumer, King, Maloney, Nadler, First Responders Urge Congress to Avoid Looming Automatic Across-the-Board Budget Ax – Including Deep Cuts to 9/11 Zadroga Program, Federal Aid to Hurricane Sandy Victims
With the deadline nearing for Congress to negotiate a balanced deficit-cutting package or face deep automatic cuts across federal programs – known as sequestration – U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer, were joined today by U.S. Representatives Peter King, Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, 9/11 first responders and survivors in urging their colleagues to negotiate a responsible package to replace the sequester before the devastating cuts, including $3 billion in federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims and $27 million to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health
‘Hopeful’ Schumer and ‘cynical’ Gillibrand join to stop sequestration cuts
At a press conference in Midtown this morning, Sen. Chuck Schumer said he still thought a last-minute deal to avert the impending sequestration might come together before the cuts are scheduled to take effect on Friday.
Looming sequestration deadline may affect Zadroga Act funding
With only days until the congressionally imposed sequestration deadline hits, Long Islanders who responded to the Sept. 11 attacks could be hit the hardest if the sequestration goes through.
Automatic Spending Cuts Could Hurt Sandy Victims, 9/11 First Responders
Police officers and firefighters who responded on 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy Victims who are trying to rebuild after last fall’s devastating storm are just two groups that could see their lives made even more difficult by automatic spending cuts set to take effect on Friday.
Government cuts could affect Zadroga benefits
Friday, the first $85 billion round of cuts will happen if Congress doesn’t act. Lots of services are immune from cuts, but many are vulnerable including the health fund for 9/11 first responders. They are all heroes but will they lose their benefits?