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Delaware hospital among the best in state, regionally. Find out which one
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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:
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson Health-Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Main Line Health Paoli Hospital in Paoli, Pennsylvania
- 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.
The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple partner agencies are responding to a barge fire in Delaware Bay on Tuesday after a tug reported that the vessel it was towing had caught fire.
According to the Coast Guard, watchstanders at Sector Delaware Bay received a call at approximately 8:20 a.m. from the tug Douglas J, reporting that the barge under tow was on fire. The barge was reportedly carrying scrap metal.
Authorities are towing the burning barge to a position about two miles off Maurice River Cove, New Jersey, in an effort to move the incident away from the main shipping channel while firefighting operations continue.
The Coast Guard has established a safety zone and issued a Broadcast Notice to Mariners as crews work to contain the fire and reduce potential hazards to vessel traffic in the busy port complex. Multiple fire departments have deployed fireboats to assist with suppression efforts.
No injuries have been reported and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Responders from Coast Guard Station Philadelphia, Coast Guard Station Cape May, and Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City have been deployed to assist. Partner agencies on scene include the Wilmington Fire Department, Delaware City Fire Department, Philadelphia Fire Department, New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, and Delaware Emergency Management.
The incident follows another major barge fire in the Delaware Bay region in 2022, when a barge carrying scrap household appliances burned for approximately 26 hours in what officials described as the largest firefighting operation in Delaware state history.
Response operations for the current fire remain ongoing.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 9:34AM
MINQUADALE, Del. (WPVI) — The DMV in Wilmington, Delaware is reopening at 8a.m. Tuesday.
This comes after the deadly shooting of State Trooper Matthew “Ty” Snook, 34, in December 2025.
A man walked into the facility and shot and killed Snook.
The DMV said service at the Wilmington location will be by appointment only for now. The Delaware City, Dover, and Georgetown DMV locations will continue to offer walk-in service to customers.
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