Tiger Woods moved from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after three days of surgery and care for the 15-time major winner.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department indicated on Tuesday that he would have been transported to a facility other than Harbor-UCLA, a tier 1 trauma centre, had his injuries been life-threatening. Instead, he landed at Harbor-UCLA for surgery on numerous substantial injuries in his lower right leg. The incident was ruled “purely accidental” following an investigation by the LACSD.
Officers indicated that Tiger’s life was saved because he was wearing his seatbelt and driving a 2021 Genesis SUV. The vehicle ended up hundreds of feet from a median, which he crossed, down at the bottom of a sloping gulley off the side of the road.
Tiger Woods moved to the new hospital where he will continue his recovering after officials say he will not be facing any criminal charges after the car crash.
According to the LACSD, Woods was alert and conscious at the scene of the crash despite a crushed front portion of his SUV before he was transported to Harbor-UCLA.
Anish Mahajan, the chief medical officer of Harbor-UCLA, provided a detailed update on Tiger’s surgeries on Tuesday evening following his admittance to the hospital.
“Mr. Tiger Woods was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for continuing orthopedic care and recovery. To respect patient confidentiality, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center will not provide any further information about the patient’s care. On behalf of our staff, it was an honour to provide orthopaedic trauma care to one of our generation’s greatest athletes,” he said.
It is likely that other surgeries,” will be required for Woods in the near and distant future as his right leg heals from extensive injuries that required screws, rods and a fasciotomy “to relieve pressure due to swelling.”
It is unknown how long Woods will be at Cedars-Sinai, but it will likely be a while as doctors try and put the lower half of his body back together. This could include skin grafts on his mangled right leg. Keeping it away from the infection will be paramount in the very near future, and a return to his home in Florida does not seem to be imminent.