Northwell’s Mather Hospital today announced a significant investment in patient care with a complete upgrade to the da Vinci 5 robotic surgery system. This fleet replacement positions Mather Hospital at the forefront of surgical innovation, delivering a new era of precision, efficiency, and advanced patient care.
The da Vinci 5, Intuitive’s most advanced, fifth-generation robotic system, features over 150 design innovations and a 10,000-fold increase in computing power over previous generations. This transformative upgrade offers distinct advantages for our surgeons, patients, and operating room efficiency. The new robots offer unprecedented precision and tactile feedback for the surgeon, allowing for a deeper ‘sense of touch’ for gentler tissue handling. This combined with significantly enhanced 3D HD visualization, superior ergonomics, and greater control, allows for more complex procedures through smaller, minimally invasive incisions.
“Integrating the da Vinci 5 into our surgical program means we are now equipped with the ultimate tool for precision and control,” says Dr. Arif Ahmad, director of Mather Hospital’s Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery. “For our patients, this translates into tangible benefits: significantly less pain, reduced blood loss, lower infection risks and potentially shorter recovery times.”
Mather Hospital is in the top 10% of hospitals on Long Island performing robotic surgery, using five da Vinci® surgical robots. The hospital, which was the first Robotic Surgery Center of Excellence in New York State and an Epicenter in Robotic Bariatric Surgery, has performed over 10,000 robotic surgeries since 2011, consistently investing in advanced technology and highly skilled surgeons. The most common robotic surgeries at Mather are bariatric and general surgery, followed by gynecology, thoracic, and urology.
About Mather Hospital
Mather Hospital is an accredited 249-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 received its fourth top five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for outcomes, patient experience and process and 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 medical specialties of 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, 2024,2025 and 2026 by Healthgrades and in 2026received Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ for the sixth consecutive year. Our Graduate Medical Education program prepares physicians for future careers through Internal Medicine, Transitional Year, Diagnostic Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Psychiatry and Pharmacy residency programs and gastroenterology and hematology/oncology fellowships. For information about Mather Hospital, visit matherhospital.org or follow us @MatherHospital on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.