Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized for pneumonia

By Paul Clark
posted May 12, 2011

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Evangelist Billy Graham was admitted today to Mission Hospital in Asheville, a short distance from his home in Montreat, for observation and pulmonary treatment.

The 92-year-old evangelist arrived at Mission Hospital this morning for medical assessment, following a health episode overnight. Initial testing suggested pneumonia, and further diagnostic studies showed his heart was normal.

"Appropriate antibiotics are being administered, and he is clinically stable at this time," pulmonologist Shaw C. Henderson said early Wednesday afternoon. the rest