Northwell’s Mather Hospital announced that Matthew Colson has been appointed Vice President for Foundation and External Affairs.
Mr. Colson was previously Vice President for Development at Farmingdale State College and Executive Director for the Farmingdale College Foundation. He joins Mather with more than 20 years of experience and a proven track record for building community and award-winning development programs in his prior positions at Farmingdale State College, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook School of Medicine, and Saint Joseph’s University.
“Matt Colson comes to Mather with a strong reputation for growing individual, corporate, and community engagement,” said Mather President Kevin McGeachy. “We welcome Matt to our team and look forward to his leadership.
During his time at Farmingdale, Mr. Colson cultivated and secured the top 10 largest gifts received in Farmingdale’s history, including a recent $5 million gift. He also raised $5 million to fund and establish an honors program and played an essential role in developing a strategic agreement with the Estee Lauder Companies. On his watch, total annual fundraising dollars increased by 550% over five years, tripling the Foundation’s total assets and endowment portfolio respectively.
“As a proud local resident, joining Northwell’s Mather Hospital to serve the health and well-being of the community I live in, is a profound privilege,” Mr. Colson said. “I look forward to advancing our exceptional care, passionately serving our neighbors and fostering deep connections with our shared community.”
He was named among Long Island Business News’ 2024 Influencers of Long Island. He also serves on the board of directors for the Long Island based Rose Brucia Educational Foundation, as associate board director for the Long Island Business Development Council, and most recently on the board of trustees for Harbor Country Day School. Mr. Colson resides in Saint James with his family.
About Mather Hospital
Mather Hospital is an accredited 249-bed, non-profit community teaching hospital dedicated to providing a wide spectrum of high-quality health care 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 third 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 and 2025 by Healthgrades and in 2025 received Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ for the fifth consecutive year. The Leapfrog Group awarded Mather its 22nd top A grade for patient safety in the spring 2025 ratings. 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.
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.