Peconic Bay Medical Center

Eastern Long Island Hospital’s decision last week to partner with Stony Brook University Hospital does not affect “in any way” North Shore-LIJ Health System’s plans for Peconic Bay Medical Center, according to North Shore’s chief communications officer.

Riverhead and three area fire departments and Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps descended on Peconic Bay Medical Center Sunday morning in an elaborate drill to prepare for the event of a fire at the community hospital.

“It’s been a long wait for the veterans on the East End that have to travel to Northport for all their major surgeries and doctors appointments,” said Councilman John Dunleavy. “Now they can just come here to Manorville."

A beloved Mother’s Day tradition for many locals, Peconic Bay Medical Center’s East End Garden Festival will celebrate 20 years of fundraising, flowers and festivities this May.

Peconic Bay Medical Center has been slapped with a hospital safety score of D by a national hospital ratings company.

A first look at what North Shore-LIJ, the 14th largest health system in the U.S. has planned for PBMC: Establishing a cardiac cath lab in Riverhead to serve the East End is its top priority.

With two of its three member hospitals becoming part of other health systems, the East End Health Alliance will soon be disbanding.

Peconic Bay Medical Center's board of directors voted last night to join the North Shore-LIJ Health System's current network of 19 hospitals on Long Island, the two organizations announced in a press release issued this morning.

PBMC Health plans to establish the East End’s only designated trauma center, CEO Andrew Mitchell today told the Riverhead Planning Board, which approved the hospital's plan to build an annex in the parking lot in front of Bob's Discount Furniture.

PBMC officials talk about measures in place to prepare for the unlikely arrival of an Ebola patient in Riverhead.