PORT JEFFERSON, NY ― Mather Hospital marked its 90th anniversary on Dec. 29 with memories from patients and staff, an historic photo display and events for employees.

The hospital was founded in 1929 through a bequest in the will of Port Jefferson Shipbuilder John T. Mather to “Incorporate under the laws of the State of New York a non-sectarian charitable hospital, to be located in said village of Port Jefferson … so designed and constructed as to permit future enlargement, assuming that future needs may justify such action …”

Over the last nine decades, Mather has grown to a 248-bed teaching community hospital. In all that time, the hospital has had only three administrators.

Among the milestones at Mather:

  • 1929 – John T. Mather Memorial Hospital opens with 54 beds as the first general hospital in the Town of Brookhaven.
  • 1962 – A new wing was dedicated, giving the hospital a new surgical suite, a new emergency facility and a new intensive care unit. The expansion also gave the Hospital a total of 110 beds.
  • 1973 – Another expansion project, adding a new psychiatric unit and the most advanced electronic monitoring equipment for coronary care and the Intensive Care Unit, bringing the total number of beds in the hospital to 203.
  • 1983 – Another wing was added, along with extensive renovation of the existing building and new equipment. Mather Hospital had now grown to 223 beds.
  • 1991 – Fourth major expansion of hospital is completed with dedication of new Contessa Nadia Farber Emergency Pavilion
  • 1992 – The hospital opened what would later be renamed the Frey Family Foundation Medical Arts Building
  • 1997 – Mather reached its current bed count of 248.
  • 1998 – Mather opened a new Ambulatory and Inpatient Surgical Pavilion, which in June 2001 was renamed the Matthew J. and Debra A. Cody Ambulatory and Inpatient Surgical Pavilion.
  • 2013 – Mather received its first prestigious designation as a Magnet® Hospital. It received its second Magnet® designation in 2018.
  • 2014 – Mather welcomed its first medical residents and became a teaching hospital. The first program was for Internal Medicine, and the hospital subsequently added programs for Transitional Year (2015), Radiology and Psychiatry (2016) and Interventional radiology (2018).
  • 2015 – Opened the Calace Pavilion, a major commitment by the Hospital to address the current and future medical needs of the communities it serves. The new pavilion increased the number of single-bedded rooms at Mather, provided space for the growing Graduate Medical Education program and included a new conference center.
  • 2018 – Mather became the 23rd hospital in the Northwell Health system.

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 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 and respect and treating each patient in the manner we would wish for our loved ones. Mather has earned the prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), which recognizes healthcare organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. Mather has received 14 “A” ratings for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. No other hospital in New York State has received more top ratings. For further information about Mather Hospital, visit www.matherhospital.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/matherhospital.

 

About Northwell Health
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, about 750 outpatient facilities and more than 13,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 70,000 employees – 16,000-plus nurses and 4,000 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We’re 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 Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.