List of hospitals in Delaware
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
[edit]- Bayhealth Medical Center
- Bayhealth Emergency Center, Smyrna - Smyrna (Kent and New Castle counties)
- Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus - Dover (Kent County)
- Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus - Milford (Kent and Sussex counties)
- Beebe Healthcare
- Beebe Medical Center - Lewes (Sussex County)
- South Coastal Health Campus Emergency Department - Millville (Sussex County)
- ChristianaCare - formerly Medical Centers of Delaware (MCD)
- Nemours Foundation
- State of Delaware
- TidalHealth Services
- Trinity Health
- Veterans Administration
Historic hospitals
[edit]- 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
- There was a hospital at Ft. Dupont, near Delaware City. The building still exists but has been closed up and unused for many years.
- 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
[edit]- ^ "Hospitals in Delaware". American Hospital Directory. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
