In the early 1880s, the leaders of the DFMM decided they needed a concrete place to treat women—one that was not in their own homes. They found that Indian homes were the wrong environment for medical and spiritual healing. The homes in Delhi were prominently Hindi and were therefore not the best locations to spread the messages of Christianity. In addition, it was difficult to treat women in their homes, spread out in Delhi, as opposed to a hospital-like building where medicine and medical knowledge is concentrated. The new goal of the mission was to a build a hospital, yet one that was appropriately sized to both the means and realities of life in Delhi because as Reverend Winter noticed, the cultural norms dictated that many women would not come to a hospital. In 1881 Priscilla Winter died. Yet, in the same year, the Mission hired an experienced nurse from Germany, Deaconess Jacoba Zeyen. Zeyen opened an outpost in Karnal, approximately seventy miles from Delhi, which cemented the establishment of the DFMM. The DFMM's dream to operate in a hospital was actualized in 1885 when St. Stephen's Hospital for Women and Children was founded in memory of Priscilla Winter. The hospital was centrally located and was the first hospital solely dedicated to the care of women and children in Delhi. The hospital was known for its thorough hygiene and discipline. It was designed to teach women new ideas about religion, which they could then in turn take back to their homes. Therefore, patients were incited to read scripture and gospel before treatment was administered. Although the hospital at first lacked both resources and staff, in 1891, it began to take off. The hospital hired their first female doctor, Jenny Muller, a woman of Indian-German origins who had attended the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1893, a second female doctor, Mildred Staley, was added to the practice. By 1865, the hospital housed three doctors and still operated the two dispensaries in Delhi and Karnal. Local women worked as nurses in the hospital under the supervision of an Englishwoman, Matron Mary Roberts. In the late 1890s. the Mission's yearly numbers were between 600-700 patients treated in the new hospital, 15,000 at the dispensaries, and 1,200 through home visits. In 1906, the Mission laid the foundations for a bigger hospital located in Tiz Hazari, where it remains today. At the time, the director of the DFMM, GE Leroy, believed hat a new hospital would establish the DFMM as a full-fledged medical practice.