Missing man found overnight after alert

A man missing from Columbus Regional Hospital was found unharmed overnight.

The Columbus police sent out an alert over the county’s phone, text and e-mail Everbridge alert system at about 1:30 this morning, saying that they were looking for a 46-year-old man in sweatpants and a hospital gown who had left the hospital while under emergency detention there. They said he had a heart condition that left him confused.

He left around midnight and had last been seen around the bus stop near the hospital on 17th Street.

About 20 minutes later, the county dispatchers signaled that the man had been found unharmed.