Delaware hospital among the best in state, regionally. Find out which one

U.S. News and World Reports has released its rankings of the top hospitals in the nation and the best hospitals in each state and metro area. The rankings include the leading medical facilities in Delaware with ChristianaCare Hospitals recognized as Delaware’s top hospital and among the top hospitals in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Rankings are based on how a hospital measures up in two categories: specialty rankings and procedure and condition ratings. Procedure and condition ratings focus on specific, commonly required procedures and conditions, such as hip replacement and heart failure. Hospitals are evaluated on their performance with a full range of patients, not just the most challenging cases. Specialty rankings consider outcomes for patients facing complex, high-risk cases.

Hospitals demonstrating a comprehensive range of excellence are recognized on the Best Regional Hospitals list, with the top performers also making the publication’s national Honor Roll list. To be included among U.S. News’s 466 Best Regional Hospitals, a hospital generally had to excel in at least seven of the procedures and conditions it evaluated across three dozen healthcare services.

The rankings are intended to help patients and their families find sources of skilled inpatient care.

Top hospitals in Delaware

U.S. News listing includes evaluations for state, major metro and non-metro regions. In its appraisal of 15 hospitals in Delaware, two met the publication’s standards to be recognized as Best Regional Hospitals. ChristianaCare Hospitals is ranked as the top hospital in Delaware, followed by Beebe Healthcare-Lewes Campus in the number two spot.

Other hospitals on the list include:

• Bayhealth Hospital-Kent Campus
• Delaware Psychiatric Center in New Castle
• Dover Behavioral Hospital in Dover
• Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Middletown
• Meadow Wood Behavioral Health System-New Castle

Top 5 regional hospitals

US News also ranked hospitals in the Philadelphia metro area, which includes parts of Delaware. ChristianaCare was the lone Delaware hospital to rank in the top 5 regionally:

1. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2. Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3. Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4. Main Line Health Paoli Hospital in Paoli, Pennsylvania
5. ChristianaCare Hospitals

Best hospitals honor roll

According to U.S. News and World Reports, each year nearly 2 million people require in-hospital surgeries or special care with exceptional technical challenges or significantly heightened risks of death or harm.

U.S. News and World Reports said it offers Best Hospitals specialty rankings for patients with life-threatening or rare conditions who need hospitals offering unparalleled treatment for complex, high-risk cases or difficult diagnoses.

The Best Hospitals Honor Roll ranks the top hospitals in 15 specialties for life-threatening or rare conditions and 20 procedures and conditions.

Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian was the single regional hospital to make the honor roll.

You can contact Anitra Johnson at ajohnson@delawareonline.com.