Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who suffered a concussion and rib fracture after falling, was transferred to a rehabilitation center on Monday. His office made the announcement.
After falling and tripping during a dinner event at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, D.C., McConnell, 81, was taken to the hospital that evening for treatment of his concussion.
McConnell’s communications director, David Popp, said in a statement on Monday that the next step will be a period of physical therapy at an in-patient rehabilitation facility before he returned home.
The leader’s medical staff found during this weekend’s therapy that he also had a slight rib fracture on Wednesday, for which he is currently receiving care.According to his office, McConnell is anticipated to stay at the treatment center for the following week or two.
In his fall on Wednesday, McConnell was speaking at a private dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC he founded to elect Republicans to the Senate.
McConnell, who has served as a senator for 38 years, is the 13th-longest-serving senator in history at the age of 81.
He had fallen before, not just last week. McConnell fell at his Kentucky home in 2019 and fractured his shoulder.
A number of senators have recently missed meetings due to illness, including McConnell.
Sen. John Fetterman, a newly elected Democrat from Pennsylvania, admitted himself to a hospital for mental depression last month. 53-year-old man will be away from the chamber for an indefinite period of time.
