Peconic Bay Medical Center Archives

06.23.2020 COVID-19

PBMC resumes limited visitation for non-COVID patients after state lifts restrictions

Peconic Bay Medical Center has updated its policy to allow limited visitation following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement last week that hospitals could resume letting people into the facilities. The...

06.14.2020 COVID-19

Local nurse shares her story of giving birth during a pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic peaked in early April, Laura Kline began to hear from relatives wondering if she should consider contingency plans for the upcoming birth of her daughter....

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...

05.15.2020 COVID-19

Photos: 106th Rescue Wing honors health care workers during flyover

In a tribute to health care workers on Long Island, members of the Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton Beach conducted a flyover across Suffolk County on...

05.13.2020 COVID-19

COVID-19 fatalities at PBMC’s Skilled Nursing Facility attributed to hospital overflow, CEO says

As part of Peconic Bay Medical Center’s emergency plan to expand capacity during the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, the Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on the Riverhead campus...

05.12.2020 Community

Artists pay tribute to front-line hospital workers with their work

The Peconic Bay Medical Center lobby has been transformed, at least temporarily, into an art gallery — and a tribute to the Riverhead hospital’s front-line workers, who have seen...

05.08.2020 Community

Thousands of plants grown for annual garden festival donated to East End hospitals

For 25 years, the annual East End Garden Festival has become an unofficial marker of Mother’s Day weekend. The annual fundraiser, which has supported both Peconic Bay Medical Center...

05.04.2020 Health

PBMC CEO says acquisition of former Mercy property ‘sets up the potential for future growth’

The Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundation has acquired the adjacent McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School property, which has sat vacant since the school closed in June 2018. The 24-acre acre...

04.19.2020 COVID-19

After 10 days at PBMC fighting coronavirus, Liborio Alessi, 52, of Calverton dies

Updated (Sunday, 7 a.m.): Liborio Alessi, a Calverton man who was admitted to Peconic Bay Medical Center April 8 and tested positive for the coronavirus, died Friday, his mother said....

04.15.2020 COVID-19

Beating the odds: After nearly four weeks in ICU at PBMC, Cutchogue man is headed home

“We missed you. Welcome home!” “Go, gramps, go!” Doctors, nurses, family and friends lined the entrance at Peconic Bay Medical Center, cheering and applauding as Rick Horton of Cutchogue...

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