Its operations were suspended for five years after Mackay died, until 1906 when the Canadian missionary doctor James Young Ferguson reopened it under the auspices of the Canadian Presbyterian Church with the name Mackay Memorial Hopital. This time its name was in honor of George Mackay himself, who after all had pioneered modern Western medicine in northern Taiwan.
「偕醫館」曾因為馬偕過世停館五年之久，直到一九○六年，加拿大長老教會牧師宋雅各醫師接手重開偕醫館，並獲加拿大總會經援，在雙連擴建一座新醫院──「馬偕紀念醫院」，以紀念北部教會的開拓先鋒馬偕博士。