[H] VPN

[Winterlight]

I have to spend some time in the hospital. They will have wireless 
internet service, but I need to be able to make secure transactions 
from my laptop to monitor things, and pay my bills. Is my best bet to 
use a VPN? I know I could use my home cable service with something 
like Hamachi LogMeIn but if something goes down with my home network 
then I won't be able to fix it so I am thinking of signing up to a 
third party service where reliability and security is paramount. Any 
suggestions or referrals? thanks