PBMC women’s and infants center takes shape in Mattituck
PBMC’s $32 million maternity expansion is moving ahead, promising labor, delivery and breast care closer to home for East End families.
Hospital leaders, donors and community members gathered at Strong’s Water Club in Mattituck as Peconic Bay Medical Center marked completion of the first phase of infrastructure work for the Emilie Roy Corey Center for Women and Infants. The center is expected to open in the second half of 2027.
PBMC plans to fold maternity nursing and C-section suites into a renovated 22,000-square-foot first-floor space, creating a center with labor and delivery, breast health services, urogynecology, teleneonatology and a future Level II NICU. The new facility is also expected to include private patient rooms, dedicated operating rooms and a separate entrance.
Families needing specialized maternity or newborn care often have had to travel west on Long Island. The center is meant to reduce that burden and give residents of the North Fork, South Fork and the broader East End a regional option for higher-level women’s and infants services. PBMC already offers labor and delivery, prenatal classes and neonatal specialists, so the new center is being built as an expansion and modernization of existing care rather than a new obstetrics program from scratch.
Northwell Health announced the women’s-and-infants project in June 2023 as part of a $92 million PBMC expansion. Northwell later put the maternity piece at $32 million and estimated the work would take about two years. That broader investment has already produced the Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch Neurosciences Center, which opened in 2026 and became Eastern Long Island’s first and only thrombectomy-capable stroke center.
Emilie and Michael Corey gave $10 million toward the project, Robert and Patricia Friemann donated $250,000 in January 2024, and PBMC said its September 2025 gala raised more than $1.1 million for the center and drew nearly 300 people. At PBMC’s 75th anniversary celebration in early 2026, hospital leaders tied the women’s center to the institution’s origins as Central Suffolk Hospital, founded in 1951 through a grassroots push to bring healthcare closer to East End families.
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