Hospitals in Delaware: ratings, owners and penalties for 13 hospitals

Name: Hospitals in Delaware
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Delaware has 13 hospitals in the CMS hospital files, 9 of them with emergency services. The average overall rating is 3.1 of 5 and none is rated one star. In fiscal year 2026, 0 of them faced a 1% Medicare payment reduction under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, and 4 had an excess readmission ratio above 1.0 on at least one condition tracked by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

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Hospitals: 13
Average overall rating: 3.1 of 5
One star hospitals: 0
Five star hospitals: 0
With emergency services: 9
HAC payment reductions, fiscal year 2026: 0 of 6 in the program
With excess readmissions: 4

Hospitals by penalties and rating

Hospitals with a HAC payment reduction first, then by most conditions with excess readmissions, then by lowest star rating. Each row links to the page and its Medicare Care Compare record.

Hospital	City	Type	Stars	Emergency	HAC payment cut	Excess readmission conditions	Source
Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus	Dover	Acute Care Hospitals	2	Yes	No	5	medicare.gov
Beebe Medical Center	Lewes	Acute Care Hospitals	3	Yes	No	2	medicare.gov
St Francis Hospital	Wilmington	Acute Care Hospitals	3	Yes	No	1	medicare.gov
Christiana Hospital	Newark	Acute Care Hospitals	4	Yes	No	1	medicare.gov
Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus	Milford	Acute Care Hospitals	3	Yes	No	0	medicare.gov
Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.	Seaford	Acute Care Hospitals	3	Yes	No	0	medicare.gov
Wilmington VA Medical Center	Wilmington	Acute Care, Veterans Administration	4	Yes	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Delaware Psychiatric Center	New Castle	Psychiatric	Not listed	No	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Dover Behavioral Health System	Dover	Psychiatric	Not listed	No	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Meadowwood Behavioral Health System	New Castle	Psychiatric	Not listed	No	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware	Wilmington	Childrens	Not listed	Yes	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Rockford Center	Newark	Psychiatric	Not listed	Yes	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov
Sun Behavioral Delaware LLC	Georgetown	Psychiatric	Not listed	No	Not in program	Not listed	medicare.gov

Star ratings

Overall rating	Hospitals
4 of 5	2
3 of 5	4
2 of 5	1
Not rated	6

Owners and managers with the most hospitals in Delaware

Organization	Hospitals	Average stars	With excess readmissions
Uhs of Delaware Inc	2	Not listed	0
Universal Health Services Inc	2	Not listed	0
Acadia Healthcare Company Inc	1	Not listed	0
Sun Behavioral Health Inc	1	Not listed	0
Trinity Health Corporation	1	3	1

Updated November 7, 2026. Read from CMS Provider Data Catalog and data.cms.gov, hospitals. Open data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (US government work). Ratings and program results are as CMS lists them on the date shown and CMS refreshes them on its own schedule. The CMS files are joined on the CMS Certification Number. CMS gives each owner organization an ID, and an owner page groups hospitals on that ID. Names of individual owners and managers are not shown. This page uses CMS data and is not endorsed or certified by CMS. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.