Taking just 20 minutes for your own self-care can enhance your ability to be more focused and resilient the rest of the day. Mather Hospital’s Sol Space was created to help team members address various aspects of well-being.
On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, we officially launched our Cardiac Rehab. Mather Hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation is a 12-week supervised program including exercise training, educational classes on heart health and nutrition counseling.
In May we broke ground for a new Emergency Department. In October we erected the steel for this new 26,000 square foot state of the art facility that will be double the size of our existing emergency pavilion and will allow us to better accommodate our patients, maximize patient privacy and caregiver support, increase efficiencies in care and incorporate the best practices in patient and staff safety.
On Thursday, October 19, 2023, a beam raising ceremony was held for a key beam being used for the foundation of the new Emergency Department. The new $52 million, 26,000-square-foot facility is expected to be completed in 2025.
Mather Hospital began a new chapter in its more than 90-year history with the opening of a redesigned main lobby. The renovation was designed to create a space that impresses upon each visitor that this is an exceptional healing environment. In addition to exquisite interior design upgrades, there are security and access enhancements, expanded spacious…
Congratulations to the staff of the Fortunato Breast Health Center, which was honored by Mather Hospital for their consistently high patient satisfaction scores. The staff was treated to lunch and presented with custom fleeces. The Fortunato Breast Center team each month receives high patient recognition scores from Press Ganey patient surveys highlighting their top-notch patient…
Mather Hospital received five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the highest rating possible using data that evaluates outcomes, patient experience and process. Just 15 percent of the 4,654 star-rated hospitals nationwide earned five-star status, which used Care Compare data between 2018-2022. “This five-star rating reflects the exceptional standard of care…
Mather Hospital has received the Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades for the fifth consecutive year (2019-2023). Mather is the only hospital on Long Island to receive the award for five consecutive years. The award recognizes hospitals that deliver superior patient outcomes in bariatric (weight loss) surgery. Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance using objective quality measures…
Michael Gibson of Ronkonkoma was coaching at an indoor sports facility in Port Jefferson last February when “everything just went dark”. Mr. Gibson suffered cardiac arrest. “I was clinically dead”, he told reporters and first responders at a recent press conference at South Shore University Hospital (SSUH) in Bay Shore. Fortunately, there were three people…
Mather is excited to announce the newest addition to Executive Leadership, Brian DeFeo. As VP/Associate Executive Director of Finance, Brian succeeds Joseph Wisnoski, Sr. VP and CFO, who will be returning but will continue at Mather in a consulting capacity until the end of 2023. Brian joins us from Northwell STARS (Sports Therapy and Rehab…