Peconic Bay Medical Center

“We are in a race to get a cardiac cath lab in the Town of Riverhead,” Supervisor Sean Walter said last week. The state health department will approve only one cardiac cath lab on the East End, he said, but both PBMC and Southampton Hospital have applications pending for cardiac catheterization facilities.

On November 15 PBMC will hold an evening dedicated to National Diabetes Awareness Month. Presentations on the disease, a vendor expo and lighting up the hospital in blue are planned.

A stroke can be devastating. The good news is that strokes can be prevented and treated. Workshops like this one are one reason that people cope better post-stroke.

This innovative, award-winning program brings music to the bedsides of patients at Peconic Bay Medical Center to comfort and support them.

Death rates from breast cancer have been decreasing in part due to awareness women gain through meetings like this one.

An OR smoke detector went off after the motor on a rooftop air-conditioning unit burnt out, Riverhead Fire Chief Kevin Brooks said. The the air intake on a second, adjacent rooftop unit fed air into the surgical pavilion that “smelled pretty bad,” Brooks said. That tripped a smoke detector in OR-5, he said.

Zika virus, which has swept through South and Central Americas and has been reported in every state in the continental U.S. except Wyoming, is not likely to reach epidemic proportions in North America, according to Riverhead infectious disease specialist Dr. Sandeep Gandhi.

Riverhead surgeon Dr. Agostino Cervone performed an umbilical hernia repair using a new technique and instrumentation.

The Riverhead teen severely burned by an exploding gel candle in 2011 has been hospitalized ever since and today marked his 20th birthday at Peconic Bay Medical Center.

Northwell Heath's chairman of cardiology will personally lead Peconic Bay Medical Center's cardiac care program, as Eastern Suffolk Cardiology joins the Northwell health system.