LifeSpring Hospital

(20-25 beds) and prices significantly below market rates, the hospital has achieved both financial sustainability as well as the opportunity to fundamentally impact the healthcare choices of lower-income women, and thus their overall well-being.
With its present strength of six hospitals, LifeSpring is focussing on increasing its footprint to 30 across India by 2010. These 30 hospitals would be set up in three states, viz, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. The organisation plans to then evaluate a franchise model in hopes of scaling up rapidly to 150 hospitals over the next two years.
LifeSpring’s goal is to increase the number of hospital-supervised deliveries and reduce maternal and child mortality. The hospital network has already served more than 25,000 low-income patients, mostly from families working in the informal sector. Over the next five years, LifeSpring’s services are estimated to benefit around 82,000 women in India. It is also working towards serving the poorest of the poor. People who earn less than Rs 100 a day may find spending 1,500 for a delivery very difficult. Therefore, the hospital is evaluating how it can extend its services to those who cannot afford even its modest charges.
(neelam.kachhap@infomedia18.in)