07.12.2022 Health ‘Mitchell’s Way’ unveiled as PBMC, officials honor longtime hospital CEO Andrew Mitchell, the former president and CEO of Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, was honored in a surprise ceremony Monday afternoon. Mr. Mitchell will be officially retiring from...
02.11.2021 Columns Guest Column: Reflecting on nearly 20 years at helm of Peconic Bay Medical Center I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a brisk afternoon in mid-March 2001, nearly 20 years ago. I had completed two interviews with the hospital board and now...
02.10.2021 Health Amy Loeb promoted to executive director at PBMC, replacing Andrew Mitchell Andrew Mitchell, the president and CEO of Peconic Bay Medical Center since 2001, is leaving his current role after nearly 20 years of running the hospital’s day-to-day operations. As...
05.31.2020 COVID-19 PMBC CEO says elective surgeries will continue On May 16, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that hospitals in Suffolk County could begin performing elective surgeries again. These had been suspended in mid-March by executive order as hospitals...
06.25.2016 Health After mergers, local hospitals looking to the future For residents in Riverhead and Southold towns, health care received a major boost in 2015 when both local hospitals, just months apart, announced mergers with two of the largest...
10.23.2014 Health & Environment ELIH may go the way of Stony Brook or North Shore-LIJ Officials from Stony Brook Medical Center and North Shore-LIJ medical care systems confirmed reports Thursday that they are in affiliation talks with both Peconic Bay Medical Center and Eastern...
05.24.2014 Health & Environment Candlelight Ball comes to the Suffolk Theater Peconic Bay Medical Center will be heading downtown next Saturday for its annual Candlelight Ball. The Riverhead hospital’s annual fundraiser will be held in East Main Street’s historic Suffolk...
10.25.2013 Health & Environment Symposium offers a dose of information on health care reform As employers, employees and the unemployed across America continue to wrap their heads around new federal health insurance mandates – known to many simply as Obamacare — owners of...
09.29.2013 Business Paumanok celebrates its 30th anniversary with charity gala Paumanok Vineyards celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday night with a gala party to thank local chefs for their years of support. The Massoud family, owners of the Aquebogue vineyard,...
11.18.2012 Business Peconic Bay Medical upgrades its da Vinci surgical robot In May 2010, Peconic Bay Medical Center became Suffolk County’s first community hospital to add a da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to its medical staff. Before that, the only...