Hospital Facts

Mather Hospital opened its doors on December 31, 1929 as the first not-for-profit community hospital in the Town of Brookhaven. At that time, it was equipped with 54 beds.

Today, Mather Hospital:

• Is a 248-bed facility
• Provides healthcare to more than 12,000 in-patients annually
• Treats more than 44,000 emergency room cases each year
• Has more than 600 affiliated and employed physicians
• Has 2,423 employees
• Sits on a 35-acre campus
• Through its  Fortunato Breast Health Center, provides diagnostic services to more than 15,000 patients annually

Mather Hospital’s Historic Firsts in the Provision of Healthcare:

• The first operating Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit on Long Island
• The first successful In-Vitro Fertilization Program on Long Island
• The first Chest Pain Emergency Room on Long Island
• The first Men’s Prostate Health Center on Long Island
• The first Wound Care Center in Suffolk County
• The first Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatric Unit in a community hospital in Suffolk County
• The first Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program in Suffolk County