WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is being released from the hospital five days after tripping and suffering a concussion.

What You Need To Know

  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is being released from the hospital five days after being admitted

  • McConnell also fractured a rib after tripping at a dinner

  • The senator will take physical therapy before returning home

  • The 81-year-old tripped at a private dinner on March 8

McConnell’s communications director David Popp said that the Kentucky Republican will undergo physical therapy at an inpatient rehabilitation facility before returning home.

Popp added the senator wasn’t just recovering from a concussion. He said, “Over the course of treatment this weekend, the Leader’s medical team discovered that he also suffered a minor rib fracture on Wednesday, for which he is also being treated.”

McConnell, 81, was attending a private dinner in Washington on March 8 when he tripped. McConnell was admitted to a hospital for treatment, spokesman Doug Andres said. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington, D.C., formerly the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C.

In 2019, the GOP leader tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, suffering a shoulder fracture. He underwent surgery to repair the fracture in his shoulder. The Senate had just started a summer recess, and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.

First elected in 1984, McConnell in January became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened, breaking the previous record of 16 years.

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