While the buildings were expanded, new equipment was added. Scott and White became the second facility in Texas to install an EMI Scanner. The EMI Scanner was, at that time, the greatest leap in diagnostic technology since the discovery of the X-ray. Near the end of the 1970s, the first Scott and White Regional Clinic was established in Moody, Texas, a small farming community eighteen miles from Temple. By the time of the Centennial Observance in 1997, Scott and White will have sixteen regional clinics covering almost all of Central Texas.
Any regional clinic can call upon the full support services of the main clinic in Temple, if needed.
The 1980s was another decade of vigorous growth. The new MRI equipment allowed doctors to detect and diagnose quickly and painlessly many diseases and brain and spinal cord disorders. Scott and White also acquired a piece of new equipment that would treat kidney stones, the Dornier HM4 lithotripter. A lithotripter was a noninvasive device that crushed kidney stones with shock waves. The institution created both the Department of Pastoral Care Services and the Public Affairs Department.