Delaware emergency room wait times

ER wait times › Delaware

Across 6 Delaware hospitals that report the measure, the median emergency department visit lasts 3 hr 42 min — 1 hr 12 min longer than the national median of 2 hr 30 min. The shortest is Nanticoke Memorial Hospital at 2 hr 47 min.

Medians over a full year, for patients treated and discharged rather than admitted. Busy hospitals treat sicker patients, so a longer wait is not by itself a mark against a hospital. How this measure works.

#	Hospital	City	Median wait	Left before seen	ER volume	CMS rating
1	Nanticoke Memorial Hospital	Seaford	2 hr 47 min	4%	medium	3/5
2	Beebe Medical Center	Lewes	2 hr 54 min	1%	high	3/5
3	St Francis Hospital	Wilmington	3 hr 12 min	8%	medium	3/5
4	Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus	Milford	4 hr 12 min	3%	high	3/5
5	Bayhealth - Kent General Hospital	Dover	4 hr 28 min	3%	very high	2/5
6	Christiana Care Health Services, INC.	Newark	4 hr 32 min	6%	very high	4/5

Source: CMS measure OP_18b, published July 2026. Hospitals with too few cases to report are not listed here; they still have a page in the Delaware directory. Not affiliated with CMS. For a medical emergency, call 911.