ChristianaCare Pushes into Camden with $58M Health Campus

ChristianaCare, Delaware's dominant hospital system, submitted a Notice of Intent on April 30, 2026, to the Delaware Health Resources Board for a new health campus in Camden, Kent County. The 38,000-square-foot facility, located on the west side of U.S. Route 13 just south of Lochmeath Way and about a mile from the Walmart, will feature a health center and neighborhood hospital with eight emergency department beds and eight inpatient beds. Offering primary care, specialty care and outpatient services, it addresses federal designations of Kent and Sussex counties as health care shortage areas where residents face significant access barriers.

The $58.1 million Camden investment is part of ChristianaCare's $865 million statewide expansion announced last July, building on its existing Kent County services like primary care, behavioral health and hospice. It will create 83 jobs — 60 at the hospital and 23 at the health center — amid growing demand in central Delaware. The project mirrors a $65.1 million Georgetown campus at 20769 DuPont Boulevard, announced in February and set to open by 2028 with similar emergency, behavioral and specialty offerings.

This southern push follows ChristianaCare's $92 million Middletown cancer center, slated for May 2027, which will provide primary care, pediatrics, neurology and cardiovascular services south of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. The Camden campus extends ChristianaCare's model beyond Delaware, including a neighborhood hospital opened in West Grove, Pennsylvania, in July 2025, with more planned in Springfield and Aston.