Since it was established in 1989, Beebe Medical Foundation has been raising money to help fulfill Beebe Medical Center's not-for-profit charitable mission, which is to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health to the people residing, working, or visiting the communities it serves.
The Foundation has a staff of six people and many wonderful volunteers who work tirelessly to raise funds to benefit the Medical Center and the community.
The Foundation House is located down the street from the Medical Center at 902 Savannah Road.
Click for a current list of our "Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors ".
The house at 902 Savannah Road in Lewes, Delaware, was built in the early
1940’s for Dr. Richard Beebe and his family. The doctor, along with his brother James,
had founded the first private hospital in the state outside of the City of Wilmington in
1916. Appropriately enough, it was in Lewes – The First Town in the First State. From a
tiny four-room hospital with just enough space for an operating room and two patient
rooms with a total of three beds, slowly grew Beebe Medical Center.
Dr. Richard Beebe’s home was originally located on the hospital grounds. Over
the years after the physician’s death it was used to house various Beebe departments. In
the summer of 1993 it was moved down the street to its present location on the corner of
Savannah Road and Suxxex Drive. Moving it through
Blockhouse Pond and across the school land saved thousands of dollars, since overhead wiring on the main road did
not have to be moved.
The house now contains the Beebe Medical Foundation and its staff of six.
Committee meetings are held in the Board Room, previously the doctor’s living room,
with its feature fireplace surround, believed to have been constructed from stones
salvaged from the old Lewes lighthouse, which fell in the early twenties. A portrait
photograph of Dr. Richard Beebe hangs in the living room where he seems to watch over
the fundraising endeavors of the Foundation, helping to ensure that Beebe will always be
here for the increasing number of residents and visitors to our community.
