The medical team started him on intravenous nutrition and offered him a choice between going to the intensive-care unit and going home with hospice.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

She was 30 weeks pregnant when she began to go into labour and was told there were no cots available in the special care baby unit in her home town.

BBC: Pregnant woman sent 100 miles to hospital

Mississippi ranked last, mainly because it excludes medically needy patients, and Idaho came in second-to-last for pretty much the same reason--dinged for lacking a Medicaid fraud unit and for poor nursing home care.

FORBES: Public Health

The costs for planned home and midwifery unit births take account of any hospital care a woman may receive if she is transferred into hospital during labour or after the birth.

BBC: Home births more 'cost effective', says Oxford study

Last September a resident at Greencroft died in a hospital burns unit after treatment for scald injuries suffered in an accident at the private care home a month earlier.

BBC: Greencroft, Deeside: Support for care home amid concern

The 40-bed rehabilitation unit treats patients with acute illnesses who require further rehab before they go home, or into a care home.

BBC: Wesham Rehabilitation Hospital