Zadroga Act Outreach Campaign Event - Monday at 11AM!

Please attend if you can!

SEPTEMBER 11TH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND INFORMATION FORUM

Join September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (“VCF”) Special Master Sheila Birnbaum and Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King (invited) to learn about the status of the VCF and a discussion about the claim filing process.

The Forum focuses on first responders, firefighters, police officers, and those who worked and lived in the exposure zone (or a personal representative of a deceased individual) who suffered physical harm or were killed as a result of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001 or the debris removal efforts that took place in the immediate aftermath of those crashes.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013
Doors open at 4:30 pm
Forum will begin at 5:00 pm

PLACE: Baruch College
Vertical Campus Conference Center
Room 14-220, 14th Floor
One Bernard Baruch Way (corner of 24th Street/Lexington Avenue)
New York, NY 10010

No RSVP is required. Visit http://www.vcf.gov// for information about the claims process before the event.

The 9/11 Health Bill

With the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act about to go into effect, I thought it would be a good time to post a summary of the bill and the full text for anybody who is interested.

Here's a link to a good summary of the 9/11 health bill that was posted online by Rep. Maloney's office.

For the more motivated, here is the full text of the bill.

The provisions that cover members of StuyHealth are in Section 2.

One part of the bill that impacts StuyHealth specifically: This law does establish the need for Centers of Excellence outside of New York City, but primarily to treat First Responders. We are still finding out whether these will be accessible to people in the survivor program (the program that treats residents, students, and office workers), and how we can indicate a need for one should a lot of us be unable to regularly seek care at the program in New York City. As student survivors, we are some of the only people in the survivor program that have left New York City in large numbers, so this is largely our fight.