October 18, 2021: According to his spokesman, former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized to receive treatment for a non-Covid related infection on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Clinton’s spokesman Angel Urena said that the former President was admitted to UC Irvine Medical Center in California.

“He is on the mend, in good spirits, and thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care,” Urena said.

Clinton’s doctors said in a joint statement that admitting to the hospital for “close monitoring” and are administering IV antibiotics and fluids.

“He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring,” his doctors Alpesh Amin and Lisa Bardack said. “After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down, and he responds to antibiotics well.”

They said that the California-based medical team has been in “constant communication” with the New York-based team of the President, which includes his cardiologist.

“We hope to have him go home soon,” they said in the statement.

NBC News, which cited a source close to Clinton, said that the former President was in intensive care as a “precautionary measure” taken by the hospital to isolate him, not because it was required as part of his treatment. The initial infection was diagnosed as urologic, but it turned into a broader one, said the source, according to the NBC report.

Clinton, who is 75, also has had a history of heart problems. In 2004, he underwent a quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve clogged arteries, according to NBC News. In 2010, he had one more heart procedure to insert two stents into a coronary artery.