National Supplemental Screening Program

1
National Supplemental Screening Program

• John McInerney, MD, ORAU
• NSSP Co-Principal Investigator
• February 19, 2014

2
Rocky Flats Plant

• Rocky Flats Radiation Beryllium Surveillance
• Radiation Recall Program (1980) managed by Rocky
  Flats Medical until 1998, and then by ORAU until
  2004
• National Jewish screened current workers for
  beryllium sensitization through 1990, followed in
  1991 by the Rocky Flats Beryllium Medical
  Surveillance Program and the ORAU Nationwide
  Beryllium Program that screened current and
  former workers through 2004
• DOE Former Worker Programs, e.g., the Building
  Trades Medical Screening Program and the National
  Supplemental Screening Program

3
National Supplemental Screening Program (NSSP)

• Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) manages
  the NSSP, and with its partners NJH, UCD, CHS,
  and Axion Health provides service on a
  nation-wide basis
• Medical exams performed in every state
• More than 1,300 medical centers used
• More than 12,500 initial medical exams
• NSSP maintains a gt99 participant satisfaction
  rating

4
National Supplemental Screening Program (NSSP)

• The NSSP serves former workers from
• Argonne Kansas City Plant
• Fermi Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
• Rocky Flats Hanford
• Pinellas Savannah River
• and any former worker who cannot be served by
  one of the other Former Worker Programs

5
National Supplemental Screening Program (NSSP)

• NSSP Rocky Flats Outreach
• Surveillance Program Rosters
• Rocky Flats Closure Roster
• Word of Mouth
• NSSP medical screenings began in 2005

6
Rocky FlatsNSSP Findings, 2005-present

• 2,049 Initial Medical Screening Exams
• 12.3 - suspect asbestosis or related disease
• 16.3 - restrictive lung disease
• 19.2 - obstructive lung disease
• 1.5 - 1 abnormal BeLPT
• 0.7 - 2 abnormal BeLPTs
• 40.7 - noise-induced hearing loss
• potentially compensable by the EEOICPA
• compensable by the EEOICPA

7
National Supplemental Screening Program (NSSP)

• Contact Enrollment Information
• 1-866-812-6703 (toll-free)
• www.orau.org/nssp