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Key Points Question How completely and accurately do hospital websites describe their level II special care (ie, intermediate care) nurseries? Findings In this cross-sectional study of hospital nurseries (including 1.99 million live births and 268 level II units) in 10 large US states that regulate nursery levels of care, state-designated intermediate (ie, level II) units were inaccurately or incompletely described in 39% and 25% of the hospital websites, respectively. There was substantial and statistically significant variation in rates of incompleteness and inaccuracy across states. Meaning These results suggest that hospital websites, often the only source of publicly available information describing a hospital’s neonatal unit, do not provide reliable information for prospective parents, referring physicians, and the public to assess the capacity to care for ill newborns.