An agreement with Children’s Specialized Hospital allows both organizations to share expertise, experience, and resources in an effort to improve access to high quality clinical care and education for those with disabilities throughout New Jersey.

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The Arts Access program was invited to exhibit artwork at the renowned Sotheby’s Auction House. Four program artists displayed some of their work.

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December 2017, Charles H. “Chuck” Matheny, the beloved inspiration for and of Matheny, passes away.

“Mr. Matheny was and is a beacon of possibility and a model of excellence to which all our students, residents, patients, and clients can aspire to be. During his lifetime, Mr. Matheny finished high school, learned to drive, mowed all the lawns of Matheny’s main campus, and ran the soda machines. Mr. Matheny was far more than the sum of his accomplishments. He developed close relationships with all the staff and was interested in improving the lives of everyone within the Matheny Community.”-Kendell Sprott, MD, JD, CEO/President of Matheny

Matheny remains committed to improving the lives of disabled individuals.

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The Matheny Center of Medicine and Dentistry (MCMD) opened to provide comprehensive medical services to the disabled population. The facility was specially designed to provide a wide range of services, including primary care, specialty care and rehabilitation services.

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The Adult Medical Day Program was initiated with the primary goal of maximizing each person’s independence and encouraging self-determination. It opened in Hillsborough in 1997.

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Dr. Gabor Barabas and his wife SuzAnne conceptualized the idea of an arts program tailored to the needs of disabled individuals. With the help of a $35,000 grant from the Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, The Arts Access program was launched to give patients the opportunity to fully express themselves artistically. The first Full Circle, a celebration of the program artists, was also held.

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Marguerite Matheny passed away in May 1988 at the age of 75. She and Walter had laid the foundation of an institution that was to grow beyond anything they could have imagined. Two years earlier, at the 40th birthday celebration of the Matheny School, she told guests, “We happened to be two people in the right place at the right time. There was nothing at the time for anyone but children with polio. We learned and we listened, and we surrounded ourselves with intelligent people, and it was easy.”

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Since the beginning, Matheny’s rehabilitation technologies and wheelchair clinic services have worked together to address the mobility and positioning needs of children and adults with disabilities. Matheny residents, students, and clients from surrounding communities rely on Matheny’s expertise for customized seating, complex rehab wheelchairs, and other durable medical equipment options to ensure comfort, health, safety, and functionality.

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Walter Matheny passed away in June 1977 at the age of 66. After Walter’s death, the Bernardsville News ran a tribute, from which the following is taken:

“When he retired in 1975 as the guiding force behind one of the country’s first and foremost effective private school-hospitals for the youthful handicapped, Mr. Matheny was renowned among rehabilitation professionals around the country and even the world. But it was to the children who needed him and to whom he reached out with untiring generosity that he may well have meant the most… One after another, they say he was a “very special person,” someone “you could count on,” someone “who is always there.” The area around Peapack-Gladstone is filled with people who can tell stories of something Mr. Matheny did when they needed help… Michael Cooper, owner of the Gladstone Market, remembers that any child, not necessarily local, could go up to the school and Mr. Matheny would see them, find out their problem, and call in one of his consultants, free, to figure out what could be done. “You’ll never find another man like him. He was one in a million.”

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By 1970, the Matheny School was a source of significant pride for the Matheny family. The school provided both highly specialized education and intensive medical therapies to all of its students. The school’s provision of these essential healthcare services to its students qualified the facility as a “special hospital.” But Walter and Marguerite still weren’t satisfied. As the Matheny School approached its 25th Anniversary in December 1971, Walter began plans to turn his dream of building a high school for physically disabled students into a reality. At $2.6 million, the proposal was the school’s most ambitious expansion project yet.

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