David Gordon Memorial Hospital, owned by the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia is located on a plateau 1,000 meters above Lake Malawi in the Rumphi district. The hospital is part of the emerging Countrywide Medical Network in Malawi and provides care for a catchment population of about 120,000 people. The hospital provides inpatient and outpatient care including surgery and pharmacy services. Since many patients travel quite far to get to the hospital, shelter for family members who accompany the patients is also provided. Mothers who deliver at the hospital are thankful for a safe place with trained personnel where they can have their babies. As the hospital noted, “many women continue to appreciate the maternity services program. It is helping to reduce home deliveries, maternal deaths, and neonatal deaths. The quality of services offered to delivering mothers attended by skilled personnel keeps on increasing regardless of the challenges the Hospital is going through.” The hospital also oversees Health Centers at Tchalo, Mlowe, Luwuchi and Msumbe and one Health Post at Zunga. Three of the Health Centers offer maternity services which help improve the lives of mothers and their newborns.