LIOEHC
The mission at the Long Island Occupational and Environmental Health Center (LIOEHC) is to
 | prevent, diagnose and treat occupational and environmental disease with a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach. The LIOEHC is a publicly funded multi-disciplinary program that is dedicated to promoting a healthy workplace and providing excellent service to our patients, affected family members and to help employers in keeping their workplace safe. The LIOEHC was established through a New York State Department of Health grant awarded to SUNY Stony Brook Research Foundation on behalf of SBUMC faculty, Dr. Linda Cocchiarella, through the Department of Preventive Medicine. The LIOEHC staff include experts in occupational medicine, nursing, industrial hygiene, and social work, in addition to our excellent administrative staff. |
The LIOEHC’s comprehensive approach is unique in its partnerships among labor, business, government agencies, industrial hygiene, legal, community and allied health care providers to prevent occupational illness and injury. Our goal of occupational health promotion is met through traditional occupational health clinical medical evaluations and outreach to provide integrated on site services to workers, employers and under-served worker populations. The LIOEHC provides clinical services for employers for medical evaluation and monitoring programs in compliance with federal regulation for hazards including asbestos, occupational noise exposure, respirator certification, lead surveillance, and hazardous waste exposure.
Outreach activities include clinical evaluations on site to groups such as under-served workers including migrant farm workers, small businesses, as well as wellness services including health fairs integrating traditional and occupational health risk reduction. We provide industrial hygiene services to evaluate workplace hazards, and offer worksite and community education forums on topics of interest such as H1N1 prevention, safe patient handling, workers compensation, indoor air quality, occupational asthma and back pain prevention. The LIOEHC has partnerships with diverse community, labor and employer groups to assist any employee or employer with prevention of occupational illness and injury, regardless of their ability to pay.
Last updated by jamie.romeiser on April 21, 2011
