Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Delaware with the lowest heart failure death rate
7 Delaware hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Wilmington VA Medical Center, St Francis Hospital, Christiana Hospital. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Wilmington VA Medical Center | 8.1%, 94th percentile | — | 11.6%, 94th percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Wilmington VA Medical Center |
| 2 | St Francis Hospital | 9.1%, 85th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.5%, 87th percentile | 10.2%, 12th percentile | — | 9.8%, 84th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 3 | Christiana Hospital | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 12.5%, 87th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 10.8%, 66th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Christiana Hospital |
| 4 | Beebe Medical Center | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 11.2%, 58th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Beebe Medical Center |
| 5 | Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 16.0%, 38th percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 13.0%, 28th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus |
| 6 | Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 11.4%, 4th percentile | — | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. |
| 7 | Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 10.6%, 69th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery patients.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.