John T. Mather Memorial Hospital

Mather Hospital, formerly known as John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, is a general teaching hospital located in Port Jefferson, New York.[1] It is named after John T. Mather (1854-1928), who made provisions to create the hospital in his will as early as 1916.[2]

John T. Mather Memorial Hospital
The hospital as seen from North Country Road
Geography
Location	Port Jefferson, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°56′20.6″N 73°3′15.7″W
Services
Beds	248
History
Construction started	1928
Opened	1929
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York

John T. Mather Memorial Hospital opened on December 29, 1929 with 54 beds. A new wing was added in 1962 with a new surgical suite, an emergency facility and an intensive care unit. A new psychiatric wing was added in 1973. In 1983 the hospital was renovated and another new wing was opened. In 1990 the hospital added the current emergency room called the Contessa Nadia Faber Emergency Pavilion. In 1992 the hospital opened the Frey Family Foundation Medical Arts Building, which currently houses the Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, Sleep Disorders Center, Infusion Center and administrative offices. By 1997 it reached its current bed count of 248. In 1998 the hospital opened the Matthew J. and Debra A. Cody Ambulatory and Inpatient Surgical Pavilion. In 2015, the Arthur & Linda Calace Family Pavilion was dedicated, housing a 35-single-bedded patient care unit; offices and teaching facilities for the Graduate Medical Education Program and a state-of-the-art conference center. [3]

In 2013 and again in 2018, Mather was designated a Magnet Recognized hospital.[4] In December 2017, Mather became affiliated with Northwell Health and its name was changed to Mather Hospital. In 2018 Mather Hospital was accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for the first Graduate Nurse Transition to Practice residency program in New York State.

The hospital provides state-of-the-art care in bariatrics, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, robotic surgery, breast health, mental health and emergency services. Mather also operates Precision CyberKnife of New York in partnership with New York Cancer & Blood Specialists. The hospital cared for more than 12,500 inpatients and over 37,000 emergency patients in 2019. Mather Hospital is ANCC “PTAP” certified. Mather also has two outpatient Wound Care Treatment Centers, a Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy unit and a Sleep Disorders Center.

Mather Hospital has earned 15 top A ratings for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. No other hospital in the state has earned more top safety ratings from Leapfrog.

Mather Hospital has internal medicine, transitional year and psychiatry residency program through The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. The internal medicine program has received 93 percent+ Board pass rates.[5] The hospital also has radiology and interventional radiology residency programs through the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.