February 7, 2017 The Total Joint Replacement Program at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will offer a free informational breakfast seminar on Saturday, March 4, 2017 from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Holbrook Country Club in Holbrook. To register, call 631-686-7876 or at www.matherhospital.org/joint. Orthopedic surgeons will discuss the different conditions that lead…
February 7, 2017 The Robotic Surgery Program at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will display the advanced da Vinci surgical system at Smith Haven Mall February 11 as part of the Hospital’s annual Community Interactive Health Fair. Shoppers can “test drive” the da Vinci robot on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 10 am to 5 pm…
January 9, 2017 Patricia Eckardt, PhD, RN, Director of the Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing at The Rockefeller University in New York, was appointed to the Board of Directors of John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Board Chairman Kenneth Jacoppi announced. Eckardt, of St. James, is responsible for advancing the field of Research Nursing through…
December 27, 2016 John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will become the first Long Island hospital to install a thermal (ice) storage system to help with cooling the hospital during warmer months. The new system, which is expected to be operational this summer, will shift a portion of the hospital’s peak electrical load from daytime to…
November 21, 2016 A group of 19 community surgeons in partnership with Mather Hospital and Pinnacle III, a company that has developed ambulatory surgery centers nationwide, will open the freestanding Port Jefferson Ambulatory Surgery Center in Port Jefferson Station. The groundbreaking took place on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 pm in Washington Professional Office Park,…
November 10, 2016 Precision CyberKnife of New York, a program of Mather Hospital at North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates (NSHOA) in East Setauket, has earned a three-year accreditation from the American College of Radiology (ACR). The accreditation follows a survey by the ACR’s Committee on Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation. The Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation Program…
November 10, 2016 Mather Radiology Nurse Cameron Gittens RN, CRN, CEN has received the Presidential Citation Award from The Nurses Association of the Counties Of Long Island, Inc. (NACLI) for “his outstanding dedication to education, leadership, sense of compassion, empowerment, and exemplary professional demeanor.” The award was presented November 3 at NACLI’s 2016 Awards Dinner…
November 3, 2016 Stop by Mather Hospital on Monday, Nov. 7 for our Fall Blood Drive. The blood drive will be held from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm in Conference Rooms 3, 4 and 5. No appointment is necessary. Donated blood can be separated into individual components to save multiple lives, according to the New…
November 2, 2016 Mather has been named Hospital of the Year for the 2016 Achievements in Health Care awards, presented by Long Island Business News. In addition, Gregory Brevetti, MD, was recognized in the Physician Category and Judith Moran-Peters, DNSc, RN, NE-BC, RN-BC, was honored in the Nursing category. The awards, formerly called Health Care Heroes,…
By Erin McKenna, RD Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays a very important role in our body. It is different from other vitamins because your body can make its own vitamin D when you expose your skin to the sunlight. Vitamin D is known for being good for our bones because it helps…