{"id":33491,"date":"2025-11-13T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:03:27","slug":"sen-fetterman-hospitalized-after-fall-near-pennsylvania-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33491\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Fetterman hospitalized after fall near Pennsylvania home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. John Fetterman was hospitalized Thursday after falling near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, during an early morning walk.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital out of \u201can abundance of caution,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenFettermanPA\/status\/1989026864862507493\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on Fetterman\u2019s profile on X.\n<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the 56-year-old experienced a \u201cventricular fibrillation flare-up\u201d that caused him to become lightheaded and fall to the ground. He hit his face as a result of the fall which left him with minor injuries.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!\u201d Fetterman joked in the statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said Fetterman remains at the hospital so doctors can \u201cfine-tune his medication regimen.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennmedicine.org\/conditions\/ventricular-fibrillation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penn Medicine<\/a>, ventricular fibrillation is an irregular heart rhythm that causes blood not to pump from the heart and, in extreme cases, can lead to cardiac arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick said in a statement that he and his wife reached out to Fetterman\u2019s family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn is a tough Pittsburgher and is already on the mend,\u201d McCormick said. \u201cWe are thinking of him, Gisele, and their entire family \u2013 looking forward to seeing my good friend in the coming days.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4283,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-33491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-john-fetterman","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}