St Francis Hospital in Wilmington, DE

St Francis Hospital is an acute care hospital in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It reports its ownership to Medicare as nonprofit (private). It provides emergency services. It is listed as a Level III trauma center. Its CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating is 3 out of 5. It has 395 licensed beds, according to state license data via HIFLD. It meets the CMS Birthing-Friendly designation criteria for maternity care. The nearest other listed hospital is Christiana Care Health Services - Wilmington Hospital, about 0.9 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.

• Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)No different · SIR 0.71
• Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infectionsNo different · SIR 0.53
• Central line bloodstream infections (CLABSI)No different · SIR 1.46

93% 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 1063%
• Completed surveys317

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

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