Helen F. Graham Cancer Center

ChristianaCare is a network of private, non-profit hospitals providing health care services to all of the U.S. state of Delaware and portions of seven counties bordering the state in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey.

The system includes two hospitals in Delaware, Wilmington Hospital and Christiana Hospital, and one in Maryland, ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elkton. The system’s history dates back to 1888 when Delaware Hospital was first opened in Wilmington, and it was expanded throughout the subsequent decades.

In 1965, it merged with Memorial Hospital and Wilmington General Hospital to form Wilmington Medical Center, with each of the three facilities being known as a “division.” Later, it was decided to close the other two hospitals and replace them with a new one, Christiana Hospital. In 1985, the Delaware Division was renamed Wilmington Hospital. In 2014, family medicine physician Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, became president and CEO of the health system, under her leadership the health system focused on excellence and love, and empowering coworkers to speak up about potentially problematic behavior by others in the work environment.

The health care system developed CareVio, a patient-centered and clinician-led information technology enhanced care coordination service, that was designed to provide information and scheduling aid in 2017. ChristianaCare operates the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, the Center for Heart & Vascular Health, The Center for Women & Children’s Health, and ChristianaCare HomeHealth, as well as the Eugene du Pont Preventive Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, and a wide range of outpatient and satellite services.

ChristianaCare is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, is Delaware’s only adult Level I trauma center. It was built in 1985 and houses 907 licensed beds, and includes 22 hospital-based operating rooms and 10 outpatient operating rooms. It is home to Delaware’s only Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit and the state’s largest maternity center, where more than 7,100 newborns are delivered each year. The Christiana Hospital campus is also home to the Center for Heart & Vascular Health and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. In 2018, the hospital opened Delaware’s first epilepsy monitoring unit, where doctors attempt to induce a seizure to make a proper diagnosis.