While the UMI opened other medical institutions across the country, they took over the administration of the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra, Mumbai , from the Medical Mission Sisters in 1978. Overseeing this transfer of management and continuing to play a pivotal role in its growth and expansion was Mother Maria Giovanna Alberoni. She was the first UMI Sister to pursue medical studies in India. It was she, along with Sister Bernadina Poomthottam, Msgr Nereus Rodrigues, Dr Faust Pinto and Dr Eustace de Souza, who guided the hospital from a 22-bed nursing home to a full-fledged multi-specialty institution and medical research centre.