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(CNN) — Former President George H-W Bush is probably going to spend Christmas in a Houston hospital.

That’s despite doctors’ hopes last week that he’d be released before the holiday.

Doctors haven’t set a discharge date because they want to make sure the 88-year-old builds up his energy.

Bush has been hospitalized for about a month after getting bronchitis.