200 of union members have passed away from 9\/11-related cancers.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cSeeing the outburst of people that are coming in with these cancers, it\u2019s bad,\u201d said Munro, who sought out the program. \u201cI think getting these checkups for our detectives in every borough in the next couple months is important and we will continue to do it. I may do it for the retirees too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bronx Detective Juan Rodriguez, who died over the summer, was part of the inspiration for the new health van. Detectives Endowment Association<\/p>\n
DEA President Scott Munro stands at a new mobile health truck parked outside One Police Plaza on Friday. Helayne Seidman for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Scott Siciliano, one of the owners of Baseline Health Inc., which runs the program, said its costs are covered by detectives\u2019 healthcare and that there\u2019s no co-pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey get to go on work time to get a full comprehensive physical,\u201d Siciliano said. \u201cWe try to focus on professions like fire and police that normally have a higher risk of heart disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company also provides the service to police and fire departments in Suffolk County and Nassau County, the New York State Police and in multiple jails, he said.<\/p>\n
Det. Carlos Lozada at the new mobile health truck parked outside One Police Plaza Friday where 21 cops had signed up for appointments for physicals. Helayne Seidman for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Det. Lydell Harrigan, who\u2019s 47 and has been on the job for 20 years, was one of 21 cops who signed up for appointments on the van Friday while it was at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s great,\u201d Harrigan, who works on a drug enforcement task force, said after having his blood pressure checked as he waited to have blood drawn. \u201cHopefully everything is good. It\u2019s definitely important to have a physical every year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers won\u2019t want to miss this bus. A new health screening vehicle being rolled out by one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27758,6851,25571,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,96053,11803,58],"class_list":["post-351182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-detectives","tag-health-insurance","tag-heart-attacks","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-screenings","tag-september-11","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}