The Mather Fund
(where the need is greatest)
Every day, countless lives are impacted by our dedicated physicians, compassionate nurses, and extraordinary staff who deliver expert care with unwavering commitment. Our excellence relies on support received through the Mather Fund. This is the most powerful and strategic investment you can make in Mather Hospital, empowering us to respond with agility, innovate with confidence, and secure the future of healthcare excellence for everyone we serve.
Make your gift today and realize the profound impact you can make in the lives of others through the Mather Fund. With your support, we can help ensure the Hospital is ready for you and your loved ones when you need us most.
Behavioral Health Services
Mather Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services offers programs that address specific psychiatric conditions and addictions, with inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospitalization (return home daily after treatment/session) options. The Eating Disorders Program offers the only partial hospitalization program for adolescents with eating disorders in Suffolk County and is the only program of its kind for adults on Long Island. Our Behavioral Health programs include an inpatient adult psychiatric unit, an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit, Adult Partial Hospitalization Program, Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program, Mental Health Clinic and Substance Abuse Program. Mather Hospital’s innovative Rapid Access Center is a point of entry for care for individuals age 18 and up who are experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder issue and do not know where to go for help. A clinical social worker and nurse practitioner perform an initial assessment and connects individuals seeking help with the appropriate services.
Breast Health
The Fortunato Breast Health Center
The Fortunato Breast Health Center at Mather Hospital provides state-of-the-art breast healthcare in surroundings that offer a sense of comfort, privacy, and the assurance that each patient’s individual needs will be met. The Center has earned a three-year, full accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), which is given only to centers that have voluntarily committed to providing the highest level of quality breast care and undergo a rigorous review of their performance.
Mather offers free screenings for under and uninsured individuals, which are underwritten by the Breast Center’s Fund for the Uninsured. Mather’s trained healthcare professionals offer regular 3D mammograms, expert follow-up care, education for patients, families and the community, breast cancer support groups, nurse navigators, and highly trained radiologists.
Cardiac Care
When it comes to heart disease, there is a great need for advanced diagnostics and treatment in our community. Mather Hospital wants to ensure that in times of cardiac emergency, we are prepared for those who look to us. To effectively deliver timely care – when time is everything Mather is home to an integrated Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Lab. This advanced technology paired with exceptional interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and specially trained nursing staff:
- ensures patients are treated quickly and seamlessly.
- allows rapid diagnosis and treatment of cardiac emergencies such as blockages and heart attacks.
- provides our physicians and their teams with revolutionary equipment to perform advanced, life-saving cardiac care.
- allows us to become an educational beacon, attracting the best and brightest physicians of tomorrow who will propel breakthrough treatments and innovate approaches to care.
Cancer Care
To meet the growing needs of oncology patients, Mather Hospital recently completed a major renovation of the 2 South Oncology Unit to provide an environment to enhance the excellent level of care, reduce risk of infection, and improve patient outcomes.
Cancer Care at Mather Hospital addresses a wide range of conditions, including breast, lung, colon, prostate, kidney, bladder, in-situ breast/genitourinary, and skin. Services include the Fortunato Breast Health Center as well as breast cancer support groups; Lung Cancer Screening Program and Lung Cancer Support Group; colon cancer outreach through distribution of colon cancer detection kits at health fairs; Lymphedema Treatment Center.
Emergency Department
Frey Family Emergency Department
Mather Hospital has reimagined emergency care for our community. Our state-of-the-art emergency department offers an experience that maximizes patients’ privacy and caregiver support, increases process efficiencies, and incorporates the best practices for patient and staff safety. Our highly trained Emergency Department staff are always ready to respond to a variety of unexpected medical crises that require immediate attention. Each patient who comes to the Emergency Department is triaged to assess the level and urgency of care needed. This allows the staff to identify and treat the most critically ill and injured patients first. Since cardiac disease and related disorders are the leading cause of death in our community.
Mather’s Emergency Department includes a certified Stroke Center designed to quickly diagnose and ensure timely treatment of patients suffering heart attacks, strokes, and related disorders and a dedicated behavioral health area for patients experiencing mental health crises. Mather Hospital is proud to have achieved the Level 1 Gold designation for Emergency Department geriatric care from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the only hospital in Suffolk County to achieve this status.
Nursing
The culture at Mather is built on tradition, history, and nursing excellence. The nursing department vision is to support, develop, mentor nursing leadership to empower all, to partner in the delivery of patient and family centered care. This culture was key to Mather earning the prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for our quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
The active involvement and collaboration of all nursing staff is an important investment in the advancement of nursing care here at Mather. The nurses’ voice is heard at the unit level through practice, quality and research, professional development, and technology councils. We are committed to lifelong learning and support their professional growth.
Palliative Care Services
Palliative medicine is specialized care for patients with serious illnesses that is both a philosophy of care and an organized, highly structured system for delivering care. The goal of palliative medicine is to prevent and relieve suffering and provide the best quality of life for people living with pain, complex symptoms, and stresses of chronic illness. Palliative medicine expands traditional medical treatments to include the goals of enhancing quality of life for our patients and family, helping with decision making and providing opportunities for personal growth. Palliative Medicine is delivered with a team approach, which includes nurse practitioners, nurses and physicians who work together to deliver coordinated, effective palliative care for our patients.
Pet Therapy
Our patients and staff love our canine visitors. Mather’s Animal Assisted Therapy Program has been proven to calm patients and relieve stress leading to better patient outcomes. Our patients benefit greatly from the dogs’ visits. The program is completely donor funded. Without community support this program would not exist. Help bring a warm wet nose to Mather and brighten someone’s day.
Surgical Services
The state-of-the art Cody Ambulatory & Inpatient Surgery Pavilion consists of eleven operating rooms for a wide range of surgeries from minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures to complex surgeries. Our Ambulatory Surgery Service achieves consistently high patient satisfaction scores. In addition to general surgery, our state-of-the-art surgical center offers several specialty programs including weight loss, eye, joint replacement, colorectal, and vascular surgeries.