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9/11 heroes may get health care cuts while hospital fights government
BY Stephanie Gaskell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, June 16th 2009, 4:00 AM
Nearly 2,000 sick 9/11 first responders could be left without medical care while a New Jersey hospital battles with the federal government for more money, the Daily News has learned.
The Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ., says it expects to run out of federal funding next month.
It has requested more money, but the Office of Management and Budget in Washington has disputed the hospital is broke.
"The promise is that the check's in the mail," said Dr. James Melius, of the New York State Laborers' Health and Safety Fund. "But it's been in the mail now for two months."
A hospital spokesman confirmed that they're waiting for more funding but said he's hopeful the money will come in time.
An OMB spokesman didn't immediately return a call for comment.
But for Charles Giles, a former EMT worker who responded to the World Trade Center attacks, every day without knowing how he will get the medical care he needs is terrifying.
Giles, who takes 28 medications a day, has been treated at the institute for respiratory problems for the past two and a half years.
He said hospital officials told him they were no longer taking appointments past July. "If this place closes, I'm screwed," Giles, 41, told The News.
sgaskell@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/16/2009-06-1
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9/11 Responders Outraged Over Funding Shortage at N.J. 9/11 Health Clinic
E.O.H.S.I clinical center of RWJ Medical school/UMDNJ
facing cutbacks because of lapse in federal funding
Media Advisory: Event Tomorrow at 10:00am
Contact: John Feal (Fealgood Foundation), (631) 724-3320; (516) 901-7427
New York City -- Wednesday June 17th at 10.00 AM at Ground Zero, the Fealgood Foundation along with outraged 9/11 first responders and NJ elected officials will hold a press conference in response to the recent news that E.O.H.S.I at Robert Wood Johnson –a World Trade Center Health Program Center of Excellence- is facing funding problems and has stopped making new treatment appointments because of a lack of federal funding. While the Bush administration tried to starve our program and funding, the current administration is not fixing these problems --and that is impacting 9/11 responders in need.
Press Conference
Wednesday, June 17th at 10:00 am
Ground Zero (Site 7 Plaza,across from Path Station), Lower Manhattan
1-We implore the new administration to allocate more federal funding to keep all the Centers of Excellence up and running so that proper medical treatment of first responders continues.
2-We implore President Obama to ask Congress to pass the 911 Health and Compensation bill (HR 847) NOW. We implore Senator Gillibrand to introduce compatible legislation into the Senate.
3-We implore Congress to pass HR 847, and treat our 9/11 first responders with the urgency with which they responded to Wall Street's meltdown.
PLEASE do you part and spread the word that these responders need assistance!!
BY Stephanie Gaskell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, June 16th 2009, 4:00 AM
Nearly 2,000 sick 9/11 first responders could be left without medical care while a New Jersey hospital battles with the federal government for more money, the Daily News has learned.
The Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ., says it expects to run out of federal funding next month.
It has requested more money, but the Office of Management and Budget in Washington has disputed the hospital is broke.
"The promise is that the check's in the mail," said Dr. James Melius, of the New York State Laborers' Health and Safety Fund. "But it's been in the mail now for two months."
A hospital spokesman confirmed that they're waiting for more funding but said he's hopeful the money will come in time.
An OMB spokesman didn't immediately return a call for comment.
But for Charles Giles, a former EMT worker who responded to the World Trade Center attacks, every day without knowing how he will get the medical care he needs is terrifying.
Giles, who takes 28 medications a day, has been treated at the institute for respiratory problems for the past two and a half years.
He said hospital officials told him they were no longer taking appointments past July. "If this place closes, I'm screwed," Giles, 41, told The News.
sgaskell@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/16/2009-06-1
6_health_cuts_for_911_heroes.html#ixzz0IbBZqWJe&C
9/11 Responders Outraged Over Funding Shortage at N.J. 9/11 Health Clinic
E.O.H.S.I clinical center of RWJ Medical school/UMDNJ
facing cutbacks because of lapse in federal funding
Media Advisory: Event Tomorrow at 10:00am
Contact: John Feal (Fealgood Foundation), (631) 724-3320; (516) 901-7427
New York City -- Wednesday June 17th at 10.00 AM at Ground Zero, the Fealgood Foundation along with outraged 9/11 first responders and NJ elected officials will hold a press conference in response to the recent news that E.O.H.S.I at Robert Wood Johnson –a World Trade Center Health Program Center of Excellence- is facing funding problems and has stopped making new treatment appointments because of a lack of federal funding. While the Bush administration tried to starve our program and funding, the current administration is not fixing these problems --and that is impacting 9/11 responders in need.
Press Conference
Wednesday, June 17th at 10:00 am
Ground Zero (Site 7 Plaza,across from Path Station), Lower Manhattan
1-We implore the new administration to allocate more federal funding to keep all the Centers of Excellence up and running so that proper medical treatment of first responders continues.
2-We implore President Obama to ask Congress to pass the 911 Health and Compensation bill (HR 847) NOW. We implore Senator Gillibrand to introduce compatible legislation into the Senate.
3-We implore Congress to pass HR 847, and treat our 9/11 first responders with the urgency with which they responded to Wall Street's meltdown.
PLEASE do you part and spread the word that these responders need assistance!!
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