A young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school. In North ...

From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?" Ratcliff is that 18-year-old, sued by the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., that wants her to leave. Ratcliff, a ...

Alexis Ratcliff attends her 18th birthday party at the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. ...

In North Carolina, there's an 18-year-old woman who has had to live in a hospital since she was 13. Now the hospital is suing her to leave. She wants to live somewhere else, too, but not where the ...

Ratcliff says she still needs the bed — until care can be set up in a home or apartment. Since Ratcliff came back to the hospital in 2019, the level of care has been attentive and skillful. She's had ...

She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?" ...