Delaware
Endometriosis care in Delaware
PelviQuest does not yet have a bookable specialist in Delaware. Delaware has no medical school; Philadelphia and Baltimore academic centers are under an hour from Wilmington.
Delaware has about 990,000 residents, including about 219,000 women aged 15 to 49 (Census ACS); at the WHO prevalence of about 10% that is roughly 22,000 living with endometriosis, most of them undiagnosed.
Order-of-magnitude estimate: Census ACS women aged 15 to 49, WHO prevalence about 10%.
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Endometriosis care in Delaware: the facts that matter
The largest metro areas in Delaware are Philadelphia and Dover. Delaware has expanded Medicaid under the ACA (KFF). State programs and clinics: Delaware health department, women's health (opens in new tab). Wilmington is about 20 air miles from Philadelphia and about 70 from Baltimore, the distances behind the usual out-of-state referrals.
Facts checked 2026-10-13. Sources: data.census.gov, api.census.gov, en.wikipedia.org, dhss.delaware.gov, kff.org, kff.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.
Specialist endometriosis care in Delaware
Delaware has no medical school, but it does have an in-state fellowship site: the AAGL Complex Benign Gynecology Fellowship listing includes ChristianaCare in Newark, recorded there as Christiana Health Care System. That means fellows in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery train inside the state even though medical students do not.
Geography keeps choices open. Dover is about 40 air miles from both Wilmington and Newark and about 60 from Philadelphia, so patients in Kent and Sussex counties are within a long drive of several academic centers across the state line as well as ChristianaCare. The March of Dimes 2023 state report classified all three Delaware counties as full access; women traveled 7.9 miles on average to the nearest birthing hospital, 2.3 percent had none within 30 minutes, and no one lived more than 60 minutes from one. Even the counties with the longest travel averaged no more than 12.4 miles.
Delaware adopted Medicaid expansion, per KFF's October 2026 status table. The Delaware Division of Public Health site is the state contact point; its women's health page refused automated requests when checked.
Checked 2026-10-13. Sources: aagl.org, marchofdimes.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, kff.org, dhss.delaware.gov.
Where specialist gynecology is concentrated in Delaware
Most excision surgeons train and practice at or near academic centers. In Delaware:
- ChristianaCare (Newark, DE)
Across the state line: Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore) in Maryland, Penn Medicine (Philadelphia) in Pennsylvania and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and RWJBarnabas Health (New Brunswick) in New Jersey.
Named for where gynecologic surgery is concentrated, not as programs we have assessed.
Travelling for care from Delaware
Delaware borders Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and a specialist across the state line is often closer than one across the state.
Questions from Delaware
- Does PelviQuest have an endometriosis specialist in Delaware?
- Not yet. Physicians join state by state; when one joins in Delaware, this page and the app will show it.
- Can I use PelviQuest in Delaware?
- Yes. The questionnaire, trackers, insights and report work in every state; bring the report to any gynecologist.
- Where do most Delaware patients end up for endometriosis surgery?
- Usually at or near ChristianaCare, or with a private excision surgeon trained there. Physicians who treat endometriosis in Delaware can join the network.
Six things to check before choosing a surgeon in Delaware
excision experience, clinical diagnosis, not surgery first, pelvic nerve and pelvic floor care, imaging read by experienced hands, a team around the surgeon, time and follow-up. The questions behind each point are on the specialist directory page.
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