In 2003, when Heather Johnson was 19, her car was T-boned by another. A driver ran a red light, and the impact severely bruised Johnson's spinal cord and badly dislocated her head. Missouri ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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