Former President Gerald R. Ford was released from a Vail hospital just after noon today after shortness of breath led to his hospitalization Monday.
“He was evaluated for shortness of breath, and that all went very well. He’s being released to go home as we speak,” Vail Valley Medical Center spokesman Scott Boie said.
Ford, who turned 93 on July 14, has a home with wife Betty in nearby Beaver Creek.
Ford’s spokeswoman, Penny Circle, was not immediately available for comment.
Ford, the oldest living former president, was treated for pneumonia Jan. 14 in a Rancho Mirage, Calif., hospital, and released after 12 days. He suffered a mild stroke in 2000.
Ford became president in 1974 after Richard Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal. Ford said he took office at “an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”
Ford lost the 1976 presidential election to his Democratic opponent, then-Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.
Staff writer Electa Draper can be reached at 970-385-0917 or at edraper@denverpost.com.
