Stony Brook University and Winthrop-University Hospital will announce the opening of a satellite location for Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health Program at 11am on Friday, January 13th at the Winthrop Wellness Pavilion located at 1300 Franklin Avenue in Garden City.

The Winthrop-University Hospital clinical site will assist in ensuring geographic accessibility to medical care for the many WTC responders who reside in Nassau County. Physicians and other medical professionals will provide care for responders who were exposed to toxic chemicals at Ground Zero on or after 9/11 and who continue to suffer from upper and lower respiratory tract distress, post-traumatic stress, and other conditions related to the environment at ground zero.

With an annual budget of more than $8 million funded primarily by NIOSH, the Stony Brook program follows 6,000 September 11th-first  responders, including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and construction workers. The program has an 80 percent retention rate and has grown an average of 17 percent annually.

Dr. Benjamin Luft, Director of the Stony Brook University Medical Center World Trade Center Health Program, will introduce Dr. Marc Wilkenfeld who heads the satellite center at Winthrop-University Hospital, and they will be joined by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Peter King, Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, as well as patients who are being treated at the WTC Health Program.

What:             Stony Brook University Medical Center and  Winthrop-University Hospital to announce opening  of satellite facility of World Trade Center Health Program to be located at  Winthrop-University Hospital

When:            11:00 a.m., Friday, January 13, 2012

Where:           Winthrop Wellness Pavilion
                        1300 Franklin Avenue, Suite ML-5
                        Garden City, NY