Now open: Middletown Emergency Department offers expert care 24/7
Christiana Care Health System’s first stand-alone Emergency Department is open and providing patients in southern New Castle County accessible, quality care for emergencies. The post Now open:...
View ArticleAt Christiana Care’s Virtual Education and Simulation Center, ‘If you can...
After practicing a rare emergency procedure in Christiana Care's simulation training center, a physician is called to put those skills to the test and save a life. The post At Christiana Care’s Virtual...
View ArticleMarketplace guides help patients through health care system changes
With specially trained marketplace guides, Christiana Care is helping many of the nearly 90,000 uninsured Delawareans access both health insurance and health care through the new Health Insurance...
View ArticleChristiana Care hosts lawmakers forum on Affordable Care Act
Robert J. Laskowski, M.D., MBA, president and CEO of Christiana Care Health System, welcomed nearly two dozen Delaware lawmakers and state officials to a special forum on the Affordable Care Act, Oct....
View ArticleMiddletown Emergency Department achieves LEED Certification
Christiana Care’s Middletown Emergency Department has been awarded LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted...
View ArticleChristiana Care staff, volunteers celebrate annual holiday feast
Each year during the holiday season, Christiana Care shows appreciation to employees, staff and volunteers by serving a feast in the cafeterias. This year was no exception, as the Food & Nutrition...
View ArticleErin E. Watson appointed medical director of Middletown Emergency Department
Erin Elizabeth Watson, M.D., FACEP, has been appointed medical director of the freestanding Middletown Emergency Department. The post Erin E. Watson appointed medical director of Middletown Emergency...
View ArticleJohn Keichline honored with DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
John Keichline, RN, of Christiana Care’s Middletown Emergency Department, has received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for November 2016. Christiana Care DAISY Award recipients are nurses...
View ArticleArtesian Water Company gift benefits patients at Middletown Emergency Department
Since opening in 2013, Christiana Care Health System’s Middletown Emergency Department has provided much-needed emergency services close to home for the residents of Delaware’s Southern New Castle and...
View ArticleStroke survivor: ‘Under no circumstances do you give up’
It was a trip Bill McNeal made often, driving home from work on I-95 on a Friday afternoon. “All of a sudden, boom, my left hand fell off the steering wheel,” he said. “I thought I was just exhausted.”...
View ArticleMiddletown Emergency Dept. earns Pediatric Ready designation
Since it opened four years ago, Christiana Care’s Middletown Emergency Department has treated more than 17,000 children – an average of 14 per day – for everything from fevers to broken bones to...
View ArticleErin Watson named Outstanding Emergency Department Director of 2017
The American Association of Women Emergency Physicians has named Erin Watson, M.D., FACEP, Outstanding Emergency Department Director for 2017 for her impact on medical students and residents through...
View ArticleCaring for kids when it matters most
Christiana Hospital’s recent redesignation as Delaware’s only Level 2 Pediatric Emergency Care Facility is a reflection of its commitment to offering round-the-clock care to children from specially...
View ArticleDoctors for Emergency Services celebrates 50th anniversary
In 1969, 18 forward-thinking doctors at what is now Christiana Care Health System founded the private Doctors for Emergency Service (DFES). Up until that time, doctors and residents took turns staffing...
View ArticleNeighbors to Middletown ED: ‘Thank you, COVID-19 warriors’
With honking horns and homemade signs, the Spring Arbor Active Adult Community in Middletown, Delaware, thanked the ChristianaCare caregivers at the Middletown campus with a drive-by celebration on...
View ArticleThanks to a ChristianaCare Nurse, Jeff Lovett Is Running on Plenty
Jeff Lovett is “one of those individuals you always want to be around,” said ChristianaCare nurse Tracy Willis, RN. She got to know Lovett in her volunteer work for Special Olympics Delaware last fall....
View ArticleChristiana, Union and Wilmington Hospital Teams Earn Top-Notch Honors for...
ChristianaCare hospitals have earned seven American Heart Association Get With the Guidelines Achievement awards for quality stroke care, Including the association’s most advanced recognition — the...
View ArticleChristianaCare Earns Multiple Awards for High Quality Care for Stroke and...
ChristianaCare has received 11 awards for providing high-quality care in the treatment of stroke and heart disease from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The recognition...
View ArticleChristianaCare Residents Pen the Must-Have Book in Emergency Room Care
ChristianaCare physicians, pharmacists and residents recently produced the 20th edition of an internationally renowned antibiotic guide that’s the most widely used such reference among emergency...
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