Where to Give Birth in Delaware (2026): Hospitals Compared with CMS Data
Delaware has 6 hospitals that currently provide inpatient labor and delivery care, according to CMS Care Compare data. This page compares those hospitals on CMS’s Birthing-Friendly designation and overall hospital star rating. Every acute-care or critical-access hospital in Delaware’s CMS data provides labor and delivery care, so none were excluded from this list.
Every acute-care or critical-access hospital in this state’s CMS data provides inpatient labor & delivery care, so none were excluded.
Every hospital in Delaware that provides labor & delivery care
| Hospital | Location | CMS Overall Rating | Birthing-Friendly | Maternal safety bundle adopted | Patient experience (HCAHPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christiana Hospital | Newark, New Castle County | ★★★★☆ 4/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus | Milford, Sussex County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 4/5 stars · 73% would definitely recommend |
| Beebe Medical Center | Lewes, Sussex County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 60% would definitely recommend |
| St Francis Hospital | Wilmington, New Castle County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 64% would definitely recommend |
| Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. | Seaford, Sussex County | ★★★☆☆ 3/5 | Yes | Yes | 3/5 stars · 66% would definitely recommend |
| Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus | Dover, Kent County | ★★☆☆☆ 2/5 | Yes | Yes | 2/5 stars · 57% would definitely recommend |
What CMS does not tell you
CMS has not published a hospital-level cesarean-delivery rate or a severe-maternal-complication rate in its current data release, and that is true nationwide, not just for Delaware, so this page cannot show either number for any hospital. We also left out a state-level NICU or perinatal level-of-care listing here because we could not verify one against a current, authoritative Delaware source.
How we built this page
The hospital list was built by filtering CMS Hospital Type to Acute Care Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, then excluding any hospital whose CMS Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure (SM_7) is marked “Not Applicable (does not provide inpatient labor/delivery care).”
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information and Maternal Health – Hospital datasets, data.cms.gov. File released 2026-08-13. Maternal-health measurement period: calendar year 2024.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) patient-experience survey, data.cms.gov. Measurement period 10/01/2024–09/30/2025.
