List of hospitals in Delaware

This is a list of hospitals in Delaware, a United States state. According to the American Hospital Directory, there were 17 hospitals in Delaware in 2020.[1]

Hospitals

• Bayhealth Medical Center
  • Bayhealth Emergency Center, Smyrna - Smyrna
  • Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus - Dover
  • Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus - Milford
• Beebe Healthcare
  • Beebe Medical Center - Lewes
  • Millville Emergency Room - Millville; operated as a summer emergency room due to the influx of tourists
• Catholic Health East - formerly HOPE Ministries
  • Saint Francis Healthcare - Wilmington
• Christiana Care Health System - formerly Medical Centers of Delaware (MCD)
  • Christiana Hospital - Newark
  • Middletown Emergency Department - Middletown
  • Wilmington Hospital - Wilmington
• Nanticoke Health Services
  • Nanticoke Memorial Hospital - Seaford
• Nemours Foundation
  • Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children - Wilmington
• State of Delaware
  • Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill - Smyrna
  • Delaware Psychiatric Center - Wilmington
• Veterans Administration
  • Wilmington VA Medical Center - Elsmere

Historic hospitals

• City Hospital - Wilmington
  • Established in 1871
  • Located on Franklin Street, between Seventh and Eighth Streets
• Delaware Hospital - Wilmington
  • Provided facility for MCD nursing school
  • Most services moved when MCD opened Christiana Hospital
  • All remaining MCD facilities in the city relocated to building and renamed Wilmington Hospital
• Fort Delaware Hospital - Near Delaware City
  • Served as medical facility for Confederate POWs and Union troops
  • Closed at end of Civil War
  • Now part of Fort Delaware State Park
• Heald's Hygeian Home for the Treatment of Patients
  • Established in 1871
  • Located at Shallcross Avenue and Van Buren Street
  • Closed in 1886, a year later the building became the new Homeopathic Hospital, later renamed Wilmington Memorial
• Riverside Hospital - Wilmington
  • Osteopathic hospital for Delaware
  • MCD purchased hospital when financial difficulties were encountered
  • Facility now run by Christiana Care as a rehab and outpatient facility
• Tilton Hospital - Wilmington
  • Named after Dr. James Tilton, Surgeon General of the United States Army during the War of 1812
  • Built in 1863 for Delaware soldiers in the American Civil War
  • Occupied block bounded by Ninth, Tenth, Tatnall, and West Streets
  • Closed in fall 1865
• Wilmington General Hospital - Wilmington
  • Former Maternity Hospital for Northern Delaware
  • After NAACP injunction lifted, MCD closed facility when opening Christiana Hospital
  • Facility demolished and replaced by Towne Estates Condos in Bayard Square neighborhood
• Wilmington Memorial Hospital - Wilmington
  • General surgical hospital for Northern Delaware
  • After NAACP injunction lifted, MCD closed facility when opening Christiana Hospital
  • Facility demolished and replaced by condo tower in Trolley Square neighborhood

References

1. "Hospitals in Delaware". American Hospital Directory. Retrieved April 30, 2020.

• Delaware Hospitals at Curlie