The Beebe Medical Foundation and Beebe Healthcare announced a gift of $10 million from the Ma-Ran Foundation to name the Margaret H. Rollins Pavilion on the Lewes Campus.
Thie gift represents the largest gift received by Beebe, the largest gift in Sussex County, and one of the largest gifts made in the state of Delaware.
“The Rollins family’s gift is so inspirational! We are so honored that Peggy and Randall, their two daughters, Pam Rollins and Amy Rollins Kreisler, and their son, Tim Rollins, joined us today as we announce this historic gift for Beebe,” said Judy L. Aliquo, CEO, Beebe Medical Foundation.
“This generous investment in Beebe could not have come at a better time, as we embark on the largest expansion plan in our history. Beebe Healthcare is a very special place! Every day, we hear countless stories from our patients and their families about the excellent care received with unprecedented compassion provided by our doctors, nurses and team members,” Aliquo stated.
The $10 million gift will partially fund a four-story patient wing and pavilion on the Savannah Road campus in Lewes that was recently announced as part of Beebe Healthcare’s proposed $180 million facilities and services expansion. This wing will extend the capacity for complex medical and surgical cases, add all private rooms, and create a dedicated new Women’s and Children’s Department on the second floor.
The Rollins family has supported Beebe for more than 30 years.
In 2011. Randall Rollins and Margaret (Peggy) H. Rollins donated $3 million through their Ma-Ran Foundation toward the expansion and naming of Beebe Healthcare’s Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing, previously the Beebe School of Nursing.
The project, completed in 2015, doubled the capacity of the school, and replaced the 50-year-old dormitory with a new three-story, 18,000-square-foot-building containing modern classrooms and clinical laboratories.
“As Beebe continues to plan and develop services, programs, and facilities for our growing population, we will look to those we serve for their continued confidence in what we are doing as well as their support to help us expand throughout the county,” said Jeffrey M. Fried, CEO, Beebe Healthcare. “We thank the Rollins family for this incredibly generous gift, and for helping us continue the legacy started by James and Richard Beebe when they built a two-room, three-bed hospital in 1916 to serve their growing community.”
The Rollins family has ties to the Lewes area, with the late John Rollins, opening a car dealership in the Sussex County community. He went on to build a business empire that included real estate holdings, Dover Downs, a cable TV company and one of the nation’s largest truck rental companies.
