Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on Monday after developing a fever.
The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the “afternoon for testing and observation,” Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.
“He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena added.
Clinton, a Democrat who served two terms as president from January 1993 to January 2001, addressed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer and campaigned for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s unsuccessful White House bid ahead of November’s election.
In the years since leaving the White House, Clinton has faced several health challenges.
In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of breath. The following year, he returned to the hospital for surgery on a partially collapsed lung. In 2010, he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery.
Clinton responded to these health concerns by adopting a largely vegan diet, which led to weight loss and reported improvements in his overall health.
In 2021, the former president was hospitalized for six days in California while being treated for an infection unrelated to COVID-19, during the height of the pandemic. An aide at the time stated that Clinton had developed a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream but was recovering well and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition. Although Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital, the aide clarified that he wasn’t receiving ICU-level care.
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