Cossham Memorial Hospital near Kingswood now includes the area's first stand-alone, midwife-led birth centre, and a renal dialysis unit.
"Perhaps having renal dialysis or going blind is worse than dying suddenly, which is quick, cheap and painless, " he said.
The first specialist renal dialysis unit to be built in a Harlow hospital is due to open in early summer.
This pointed up the fact that some local health authorities restrict, or do not provide, procedures such as in-vitro fertilisation, cosmetic surgery and renal dialysis.
Mr Davies paid tribute to the Welsh government's former health minister Edwina Hart, who "made a real commitment to renal dialysis" and gave the go-ahead for the unit.
The US and the UK have long waiting lists for kidney donations which are needed by patients with renal failure who rely on dialysis machines to stay alive until they are given a new kidney.
Congress expanded Medicare in 1972 to cover dialysis for all patients with end-stage renal disease, then jiggered the reimbursement rates to encourage the use of home dialysis techniques that were theoretically less expensive.
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Renal Care services 30, 000 dialysis patients in 400 clinics.
More than 300, 000 Americans with renal failure, often caused by diabetes, trudge to dialysis centers on a rigid thrice-weekly schedule.
That was followed by Renal Care Group, a fast-growing chain of kidney dialysis centers, up 29%.
John Fox, comanager of FAM Value, notes that Renal Care is a proven profitmaker in the tricky market of providing kidney dialysis.
For patients living in rural north Wales he has led the establishment of a satellite renal unit and has been the driving force in promoting an extensive home dialysis programme.
Campaigners think around a third could directly benefit from the device, mainly those who have been on dialysis for a long time, and those who have developed renal failure because they have Type 2 diabetes.
The technology exists for lower-cost home dialysis for kidney patients, but the companies selling dialysis machines and services are incented under reimbursement schedules to keep patients at inpatient renal centers.
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