Following a fall at her home last week, former first lady Nancy Reagan was admitted to a local hospital in order to receive medical treatment for several pelvis and lower spine fractures, her spokeswoman announced on Wednesday.

Mrs. Reagan was transported to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, on Monday and is due to remain hospitalized for a few more days, until physicians consider she is making satisfactory progress and can return home, according to the statement released by Nancy Reagan’s spokeswoman Joanne Drake.

The 87-year-old widow of former United States president Ronald Reagan was taken to the hospital, whose name was recently changed into the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, after “experiencing persistent pain,” the statement read.

Medical tests conducted by doctors at the hospital showed that Mrs. Reagan had suffered a broken pelvis and sacrum as a result of the fall.

“Her anticipated recovery is six to eight weeks, including physical therapy and a modified schedule,” Joanne Drake said in the statement, explaining that Mrs. Reagan was “in good spirits.”

In spite of the fact that Nancy Reagan also suffered a fall at her Bel Air home in February and was hospitalized for a couple of days, the injuries proved to be minor and the former first lady was released rapidly.

Nancy Davis Reagan, whose birth name is Anne Frances Robbins, married Ronald Reagan on March 4, 1952. Her husband, who became President of the United States in 1981, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the 1990s. His wife nevertheless dedicated her entire time to looking after Reagan until his 2004 death.