Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Delaware with the lowest serious complications
7 Delaware hospitals ranked by serious complications in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Christiana Hospital, St Francis Hospital, Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Serious complicationslower is better | Central line bloodstream infectionslower is better | Catheter-associated urinary tract infectionslower is better | Surgical site infections (colon)lower is better | Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)lower is better | MRSA bloodstream infectionslower is better | C. diff infectionslower is better | Compare |
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| National average | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| 1 | Christiana Hospital | 0.77, 95th percentile | 0.58, 42nd percentile | 0.45, 44th percentile | 0.77, 46th percentile | 0.00, 89th percentile | 0.91, 26th percentile | 0.52, 23rd percentile | Compare Christiana Hospital |
| 2 | St Francis Hospital | 0.88, 78th percentile | 1.46, 6th percentile | 0.71, 24th percentile | — | — | — | 0.53, 22nd percentile | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 3 | Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. | 0.89, 75th percentile | 0.00, 90th percentile | 2.58, 0th percentile | 0.66, 54th percentile | — | — | 0.13, 72nd percentile | Compare Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. |
| 4 | Wilmington VA Medical Center | 0.92, 67th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Wilmington VA Medical Center |
| 5 | Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus | 1.16, 13th percentile | 0.32, 64th percentile | 0.69, 25th percentile | 0.40, 70th percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.25, 55th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus |
| 6 | Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus | 1.26, 8th percentile | 0.00, 90th percentile | 0.00, 88th percentile | 0.93, 35th percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.23, 57th percentile | Compare Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus |
| 7 | Beebe Medical Center | 3.07, 0th percentile | 0.25, 70th percentile | 0.44, 45th percentile | 0.47, 66th percentile | — | 0.82, 32nd percentile | 0.50, 24th percentile | Compare Beebe Medical Center |
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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Central line bloodstream infections
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (colon)
- Surgical site infections from colon surgery (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)
- Surgical site infections from abdominal hysterectomy (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- MRSA bloodstream infections
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood laboratory-identified events (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- C. diff infections
- Clostridium difficile (C. diff) intestinal infections (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).