Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) has been transferred out of an intensive care unit (ICU), according to a Tuesday press release from his office.
In the press release, the New Jersey Democrat’s office said in that his “health has continued to improve and he was transferred out of the Intensive Care Unit” at the end of last week. The statement also said that he had gone through an antibiotic course and that an infection he faced was “successfully treated.”
“The Congressman is on his way to making a full recovery,” his office said in the statement.
Last week, Norcross’s office said in a press release that he had previously been admitted to an ICU at a New Jersey hospital and was said to be dealing with “an extended recovery that could require physical rehabilitation.”
Norcross was transferred to Cooper University Health Care on April 7 “following a medical incident that necessitated his hospitalization” in Raleigh, N.C., Eric Kupersmith, Cooper University Health Care chief physician executive, said in the press release from last week.
“Upon his arrival at Cooper, he was diagnosed with a gallbladder infection known as cholangitis that had progressed to sepsis,” Kupersmith wrote.
Kupersmith said that a gallstone was removed from Norcross, with the doctor adding later that Norcross was “responding well to treatment, but faces an extended recovery that could require physical rehabilitation.”
Earlier this month, Norcross’s office said he had been hospitalized but was stable in the wake of an “emergency medical event.”
“Congressman Donald Norcross was traveling over the weekend and suffered an emergency medical event likely related to his gallbladder,” the office said in an April 7 statement. “He was admitted to UNC Rex Hospital in North Carolina on Sunday and is in stable condition, where he is receiving exceptional medical treatment.”
