Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,on the Capitol on Sept. 27, 2021. McConnell was discharged from the hospital Monday after suffered a concussion and minor rib fracture from a fall final Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

cover caption

toggle caption

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,on the Capitol on Sept. 27, 2021. McConnell was discharged from the hospital Monday after suffered a concussion and minor rib fracture from a fall final Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was discharged from the hospital Monday after 5 days of remark and therapy. He tripped and fell throughout a D.C. dinner occasion final week, leading to a concussion and minor rib fracture.

McConnell’s communication director, David Popp, mentioned Monday that the 81-year-old Kentucky congressman will full inpatient bodily remedy, on the recommendation of his doctor, earlier than he can return house.

The senator was attending a Senate Leadership Fund occasion on the Waldorf Astoria last Wednesday when he tripped and fell, touchdown him within the hospital for remark over the weekend. On prime of a concussion, medical doctors found over the weekend that the senator additionally suffered a minor rib fracture, Popp mentioned in a press release.

A supply conversant in McConnell’s scenario mentioned it’s normal for sufferers to want inpatient bodily remedy to regain energy and that the senator might spend not less than every week recovering.

A handful of Republicans reached out to McConnell, the longest-serving Senate chief in U.S. historical past, to want him a speedy restoration. Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana have been among the many nicely wishers, NPR beforehand reported.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, provided McConnell and his household a “prayer of strength and healing” from the Senate ground final week.