Under new management spearheaded by American nun Sr. Agnes McPhee, who served as the hospital's second administrator, and another American nun who came in 1979, Sr. Patricia Aycock, St. Mary's broke new ground by introducing a domiciliary care program that is still in use today.
在仁愛會經營下，聖母醫院開展出另一項創舉，即是由來自美國的第二任院長馬克斐修女及 1979 年來台的艾珂瑛修女首開先鋒、至今不輟的居家照護服務。