Patients Starve and Die of Thirst on Hospital Wards

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.
 
The death toll was disclosed by the Government amid mounting concern over the dignity of patients on NHS wards.
 
You have to applaud the governments disclosure however embarassing the findings. 
 
I wonder how US healthcare measures up?