LEWES, Del.- Beebe Healthcare has raised $29 million in its "I Believe in Beebe" campaign, the largest in the hospital's 102-year history.

Beebe officials made the historic announcement Monday morning, with Beebe Medical Foundation President Judy Aliquo calling the campaign tremendously successful.

"We have over 700 people that have given to Beebe for three or more consecutive years and many of them for ten or more consecutive years," she says. "It might be a $10 gift. It might be a $100 gift."

Aliquo says Beebe aims to reach its $34 million goal in the next 18 months. The money raised to date joins an individual $10 million donation from last summer. All will go towards Beebe's roughly $200 million expansion plan in Sussex County, including a South Coastal campus in Millville.

"That’s going to be a free standing ER department and a second cancer center," explains Beebe President and CEO Jeffrey Fried. "We have another free standing emergency department that’s going to be built in Georgetown and we have our specialty surgical hospital that will be built outside of Rehoboth Beach."

Fried says all rooms at Beebe's Lewes hospital will be privatized in the expansion and a new hybrid operating room and some labs are currently under construction. According to Fried, the hospital is changing its entrance as well.

"We are going to expand the lobby, and we are going to do it right adjacent to our parking garage so it will really be easier for visitors and patients," says Fried.

Beebe is breaking ground on the South Coastal campus on Thursday afternoon in Millville. For more on the expansion plans, visit Beebe's Next Generation of Care website.