Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI), at a press conference this week, announced that he has secured a $200,000 federal appropriation for the Occupational and Environmental Health Center of Rhode Island, located on South Main Street in Providence.
The non-profit health center, which opened in November 2000 and is the only one of its kind in the state, provides occupational and environmental health clinical services, workplace evaluations, and educational programs to assist employees and employers in identifying and preventing work-related injury and disease.
The center also serves as a resource for healthcare providers and for health professionals to share information. A system is being developed to track the incidence of occupational and environmental illness and injury in Rhode Island. This will provide the state with new capabilities of using information collected to assist in the identification, evaluation, treatment and prevention of occupational and environmental illness and injury.
Kennedy obtained the funding in the FY 2002 federal budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), recently approved by Congress and signed into law on January 10 by President Bush. Kennedy is a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services-and Education, which oversees the DHHS budget.
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