Christiana Hospital

Details

Name :

Christiana Hospital

Address  :

4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road

Town  :

Newark

State  :

Delaware

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

19718

Phone  :

302 733 1000

Web URL  :


Description

A 913bed 13millionsquarefoot modern facility in Newark Delaware Christiana Hospital provides a level of care only available in largescale teaching hospitals Christiana Hospital includes Delawares only Level I trauma center as verified by the American College of Surgeons which is prepared to handle the most extreme medical emergencies In fact it is the only Level I trauma center on the East Coast corridor between Baltimore and Philadelphia

Christiana Hospital is also the only delivering hospital in Delaware with a Level 3 neonatal intensivecare unit which is the highest level of capability More than 7200 babies are born at Christiana Hospital each year

More than 1400 physicians and surgeons are active members of Christiana Cares MedicalDental staff and more than one in 10 of them have located at least part of their practices on the Christiana Hospital campus in two Medical Arts Pavilions adjoining the main hospital
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