Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Delaware with the lowest pneumonia death rate
7 Delaware hospitals ranked by pneumonia death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Wilmington VA Medical Center, Christiana Hospital, St Francis Hospital. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Wilmington VA Medical Center | 11.6%, 94th percentile | — | 8.1%, 94th percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Wilmington VA Medical Center |
| T2 | Christiana Hospital | 12.5%, 87th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 10.8%, 66th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Christiana Hospital |
| T2 | St Francis Hospital | 12.5%, 87th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 9.1%, 85th percentile | 10.2%, 12th percentile | — | 9.8%, 84th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 4 | Beebe Medical Center | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 11.2%, 58th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Beebe Medical Center |
| 5 | Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 10.6%, 69th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus |
| 6 | Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus | 16.0%, 38th percentile | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 13.0%, 28th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus |
| 7 | Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 11.4%, 4th percentile | — | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. |
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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure 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.