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Former President Jimmy Carter is back in the hospital less than a week after being released.

According to a statement from The Carter Center, “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Ga., this past weekend for treatment for a urinary tract infection. He is feeling better and looks forward to returning home soon.”

Carter was released from Emory University Hospital on Nov. 27 after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by a subdural hematoma.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from a Baltimore hospital

The 86-year-old Ginsburg (pictured) has returned to her home in Washington, D.C., and is “doing well,” court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Sunday.

Ginsburg spent two nights at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was taken there Friday after experiencing chills and fever.

The court says she received intravenous antibiotics and fluids and that her symptoms abated.

Ginsburg has had four occurrences of cancer, including two in the past year. She had lung cancer surgery in December and received radiation treatment for a tumor on her pancreas in August.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg back in the hospital

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured) was back in the hospital on Friday night. Ginsburg's latest visit was due to a fever and chills the justice had experienced earlier in the day. According to a statement from the Supreme Court, Ginsburg was initially evaluated at a hospital in D.C. before being transferred to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for further evaluation and treatment. She is expected to be released on Sunday.

Last week, the 86-year-old missed oral arguments because she was "indisposed due to illness," according to Chief Justice John Roberts. Ginsburg is the oldest justice on the Supreme Court. Before undergoing surgery for lung cancer last December, Ginsburg had not missed oral arguments in 25 years. The four-time cancer survivor has also been treated for colon and pancreatic cancer.

The amount of attention that Ginsburg's health receives is evidence of the court's sharp ideological divide and the activist role the judiciary has taken on in recent decades. Despite all of Ginsburg's health problems, she stubbornly refuses to resign. Even before the 2016 presidential election, Ginsburg made her poor opinion of then-Republican nominee Donald Trump widely known.

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Jimmy Carter walking after brain surgery

Former President Jimmy Carter is “up and walking” around shortly after he received surgery to relieve bleeding near his brain after a number of falls in the weeks before, his pastor told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“His spirits are good and he is up and walking,” Rev. Tony Lowden of the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter has taught Sunday School for 40 years, told the newspaper after visiting the former president at Emory University Hospital on Wednesday.

Carter, who is 95, was admitted to the hospital last Monday, where he was diagnosed with a subdermal hematoma and underwent surgery Tuesday morning. A spokesperson said that there were no complications from the surgery, and said that Carter “will remain in the hospital as long as advisable for observation.”

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Jimmy Carter recovering after successful brain surgery

Former President Jimmy Carter was recovering Tuesday morning after successful surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said.

Carter, who is 95 and the oldest living former president, had the early-morning operation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the center said in a statement.

“There are no complications from the surgery,” the statement said.

“President Carter will remain in the hospital as long as advisable for observation.”

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Fate of the Adventist Health Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California

The Feather River Hospital medical center campus will not be reopening after Camp Fire damage, according to a press release on the Adventist Health website dated Feb., 2019. Over 1,200 employees were laid off.

Further information was found on The Orion, a student newspaper of California State University, Chico, California.

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Areal view showing some of the fire damage in Paradise, California.

Roughly 1,350 homes in Paradise survived the Camp Fire, while 10,450 burned down.

Hospital workers and first responders evacuate patients from the Adventist Health Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California as the Camp Fire moved through the area on November 8, 2018.

The lower photo was taken from same angle after the fire.