List of hospitals in Delaware
Appearance
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
- 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
- Christiana Care Health System - formerly Medical Centers of Delaware (MCD)
- Nanticoke Health Services
- Nemours Foundation
- State of Delaware
- Veterans Administration
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
- ^ "Hospitals in Delaware". American Hospital Directory. Retrieved April 30, 2020.