Bill Clinton’s Latest Hospitalization Bring Awareness To His Long History Of Health Battles

Former President Bill Clinton was checked into a Washington D.C. hospital on Monday afternoon.

Clinton was checked into the hospital after developing a fever.

Angel Urena, Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff, shared in a statement, “The president is fine.”

She added, “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”

Clinton’s hospitalization is just the latest of the former president’s long health battles.

In 2004, Clinton was diagnosed with heart disease and underwent a quadruple coronary bypass surgery.

He also suffered from a history of skin cancers.

BREAKING: Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized – NBC

"For testing and observation after developing a fever." pic.twitter.com/0PLjPjpwvg

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Per CNN:

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday afternoon to a Washington, DC, hospital, where he is undergoing testing and observation after developing a fever, his spokesman told CNN.

“The president is fine,” Angel Urena, deputy chief of staff to Clinton, told CNN in an interview, adding the former president is hopeful to be home by Christmas. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”

Clinton, 78, was at his home in Washington when he was taken to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is expected to remain at least overnight in the hospital, an aide said, describing the former president as “awake and alert.”

Word of the former president’s hospitalization two days before Christmas spread quickly among the vast Clinton alumni network. One longtime Clinton associate said the former president’s condition was described as “not urgent or dire by any means.”

Since leaving the White House nearly a quarter-century ago, the 42nd president has endured several health scares.

He had quadruple bypass heart surgery in New York in 2004 and experienced a partially collapsed lung the following year. He had another heart procedure in 2010, when two stents were inserted into a coronary artery.

Bill Clinton hospitalized with a fever. pic.twitter.com/UcMPMBh5mX

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Per The NY Times:

Mr. Clinton was admitted to a California hospital in 2021 for a urological infection that developed into sepsis, a life-threatening condition, but it was not considered acute.

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He also suffers from heart disease, which was diagnosed in 2004 after he suffered from shortness of breath and chest pains. Mr. Clinton underwent a quadruple coronary bypass surgery, an open-heart procedure, that year to resolve the condition at a hospital in New York. In 2010 he had another heart procedure, the insertion of two stents into his native coronary artery, after experiencing chest pains.

Mr. Clinton also has a history of skin cancers, cysts, allergies and some hearing problems.