Jimmy Carter leaves the hospital to recover from fall at home

Former President Jimmy Carter has been released from the hospital where he was being treated for a fractured pelvis from a recent fall.

The Carter Center said in a statement Thursday that Carter, 95, was released from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and is returning to his home in Plains, Ga. to recover.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been released from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center. He is looking forward to continuing to recuperate at his home in Plains, Georgia, and thanks everyone for their kind well wishes.

— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) October 24, 2019

The center added that Carter “thanks everyone for their kind well wishes.”

{mosads}Carter, the longest-living former U.S. president, fell at his home last month and required stitches. The following day he showed up — with a bandage on his head and a bruise on his left eye — to volunteer to help build homes for Habitat for Humanity in Tennessee.

The former president could be seen working on locks of wood with a power drill in footage that quickly went viral.

He told the audience at the event that even though he had to go to the hospital earlier, he “had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.”