Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE

Christiana Hospital is an acute care hospital in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It reports its ownership to Medicare as nonprofit (private). It provides emergency services. Its CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating is 4 out of 5. It has 1,039 licensed beds, according to state license data via HIFLD. CMS also lists an inpatient rehabilitation unit inside the hospital. It meets the CMS Birthing-Friendly designation criteria for maternity care. The nearest other listed hospital is Rockford Center, about 0.6 mi away.

How this hospital compares with the national rate on each measure group:

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information. How star ratings work.

Lower times are better. Reporting period ending September 2025. Source: CMS Timely and Effective Care. What these numbers mean.

• MRSA bloodstream infectionsNo different · SIR 0.91
• Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)Better than national · SIR 0.45
• Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infectionsBetter than national · SIR 0.52
• Central line bloodstream infections (CLABSI)Better than national · SIR 0.58
• Surgical site infections after abdominal hysterectomyNo different · SIR 0.00
• Surgical site infections after colon surgeryNo different · SIR 0.77

39% of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock received all the recommended early care steps (SEP-1). Higher is better.

SIR is the standardized infection ratio: below 1 means fewer infections than predicted for a hospital like this one. Period ending September 2025. Source: CMS Healthcare-Associated Infections and Timely and Effective Care.

• Patient survey star rating
• Would definitely recommend64%
• Rated the hospital 9 or 1061%
• Completed surveys10,002

Survey period ending September 2025. Source: CMS HCAHPS Patient Survey.

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