Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling and Mather Hospital President Kenneth Roberts signed an agreement for Mather to become a full member of the Northwell Health system. Yesterday, Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling and I signed an agreement for Mather Hospital to become the newest member of the Northwell Health system. The merger was…
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital’s Auxiliary received the Hospital of the Year Award, Large Hospital Category, from the Hospital Association of New York (HANYS) for demonstrating “outstanding achievement and service within its healthcare facility and community.” The award was presented on Oct. 26 in Albany at HANYS’ 51st Annual 2017 Institute for Healthcare Auxiliaries and…
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital has been recognized for its patient safety record with The Leapfrog Group’s top “A” Hospital Safety Score – the only Long Island or metropolitan area hospital to achieve that distinction in the latest scoring period. Less than 5 percent of all New York State hospitals received an A grade, and…
September 28, 2017 Treating Spinal Fractures, Women’s Heart Health After 50, Fibromyalgia, Wealth & Health, and Alzheimer’s Disease are among the seminars to be offered at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital’s Fall Semester of its HealthyU seminar series and health fair on Saturday, October 28 from 9 am to 2:30 pm at the Hospital. HealthyU…
September 5, 2017 Paint Port Pink, John T. Mather Memorial Hospital’s month-long breast cancer awareness community outreach, is expanding its reach to include more community partners in Port Jefferson and Port Jefferson Station. New this year are two Paint Nights at Comsewogue Public Library in Port Jefferson Station and Muse Paint Bar in Port Jefferson,…
August 17, 2017 Come to a FREE seminar at the Patchogue-Medford Library in Patchogue that will explain how Precision CyberKnife of New York can treat prostate cancer with pinpoint accuracy. Treatment is painless and requires no anesthesia, no cutting and no hospitalization. The presenters for the seminar are: Dr. Michael Bernstein, Radiation Oncologist, New York…
August 7, 2017 The Total Joint Replacement Program at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will offer a free informational seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 from 6:30-9 pm at Stonebridge Golf Links and Country Club, 2000 Raynors Way, Smithtown. To register, call 631-686-7876 or at www.matherhospital.org/joint. Orthopedic surgeons will discuss the different conditions that…
Mather President Kenneth Roberts and Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling signed an agreement in December 2018 for Mather to become the newest member of the Northwell system. Mather became Northwell’s 23rd hospital and its fifth hospital in Suffolk County. For much of the past decade, Mather Hospital has been focused on one goal…
June 15, 2017 John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will dedicate its Summer Blood Drive on Thursday, June 29 to the memory of Richard Dellacona a 33-year member and former chief of the Westbury Fire Department, who died of a rare cancer after working on “the pile” at Ground Zero following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in…
June 15, 2017 Kenneth Jacoppi, Esq., Chairman of the Board for John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, this year marks his 40th anniversary on the Board of Directors, making him the longest-serving board member ever at Mather. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would serve this long," said Mr. Jacoppi, an attorney who…