LifeSpring is a network of Maternity and Child Healthcare hospitals that provide vital reproductive and pediatric healthcare to low and lower-middle income people in urban and peri-urban areas, with a focus on delivering high quality, low-cost services to women and children in slum areas. This is a joint venture between Acumen Fund and Hindustan Latex Limited, a public sector company in India. Its model rests on building a chain of 30 small hospitals (20-25 beds) across India. The rates charged by LifeSpring Hospitals for general ward patients are less than one-third the market rate for normal deliveries and half the rate for caesarian deliveries. Each hospital has the capacity to serve nearly 10,000 low-income patients every year. LifeSpring also expects to provide outpatient services to more than a million people over five years. By improving patient outreach and the quality of care available, LifeSpring’s goal is to significantly increase hospital-supervised deliveries and to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates in the communities that it serves.

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