Northwell’s Mather Hospital received five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the third consecutive year, the highest rating possible using data that evaluates outcomes, patient experience and process. Mather was one of only four Long Island hospitals to earn the top rating.
“Achieving a five-star rating once is a significant accomplishment. Maintaining it for three consecutive years is a testament to our dedicated staff and a relentless pursuit of providing the best possible care to our patients,” said Mather President Kevin McGeachy.
In addition to Mather, Northwell’s Glen Cove Hospital, Huntington Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut each achieved five stars from CMS as part of its 2025 CMS Star Quality Rating System. Only 10 percent of the 4,609 star-rated hospitals nationwide earned five-star status, which used Care Compare data between 2020-2023. Sharon Hospital was formerly operated by Nuvance Health. Northwell completed its merger with Nuvance in May.
CMS, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, created a five-star rating to help consumers identify healthcare facilities by quality metrics, which include patient outcomes such as mortality, safety of care, readmissions, patient experience and timely and effective care.
To learn more about the CMS ratings and the hospital rating data base, go to https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/
About Mather Hospital
Mather Hospital is an accredited 248-bed, non-profit community teaching hospital dedicated to providing a wide spectrum of high-quality healthcare services to Suffolk County residents, showing compassion, respect and treating each patient in the manner we would wish for our loved ones. Mather has earned the prestigious Magnet® recognition three times from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. The hospital was rated high performing by U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings in two specialties: gastroenterology and GI surgery and pulmonology and lung surgery, and for congestive heart failure, kidney failure, and pneumonia. Mather also was named one of America’s 250 best hospitals for 2023, 2024 and 2025 by Healthgrades and in 2025 received Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ for the fifth consecutive year. The Leapfrog Group awarded Mather its 22nd top A grade for patient safety in the spring 2025 ratings. Our Graduate Medical Education program prepares physicians for future careers through Internal Medicine, Transitional Year, Diagnostic Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Pharmacy, and Psychiatry residency programs and gastroenterology and hematology/oncology fellowships. For information about Mather Hospital, visit matherhospital.org or follow us @MatherHospital on Facebook.
About Northwell Health
Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians. Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, western Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees – including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners and Nuvance Health Medical Practices – who are working to change health care for the better. Northwell, named a TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025, is making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Northwell is training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.