Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center after falling in his home in Plains, Georgia, on Monday night.
He is undergoing treatment for a minor pelvic fracture, according to the director of communications for the Carter Center, Deanna Congileo.
On Tuesday, Congileo said in a statement, “He is in good spirits and is looking forward to recovering at home.”
Earlier this month, the 39th U.S. President fell in his home, hitting his head. He required 14 stitches just above his eyebrow.
On that evening, at the 36th Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity, he told a crowd, “I fell down and hit my forehead on a sharp edge and had to go to the hospital. And they took 14 stitches in my forehead and my eye is black, as you’ve noticed. But I had a number one priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.”
During the Habitat build project, Carter was seen pretty focused on his work alongside his wife, former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter.
He briefly fell while working on the corbels while he was walking with a cane. Secret Service agents, who were on the site, helped him. He took a seat and continued to work.
Carter previously survived brain and liver cancer and is now in remission. In 2015, he announced that his cancer was gone.
Earlier this month, his wife told reporters, “We’ve cut back in the last few months. I’m 92, he’s 95, and we thought it was time to stop working steadily all day every day,” adding “we still maintain a busy schedule traveling to Atlanta monthly to spend time at the Carter Center.” Carter once told CNN, “I’ll stop when I have to. But I won’t stop until I have to.”
