Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is being treated for a concussion after a fall
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized after tripping at a hotel Wednesday evening and is being treated for a concussion, his office said.
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized and is being treated for a concussion after he tripped at a hotel Wednesday night, a spokesman said.
“Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and is being treated for a concussion," McConnell's communications director, David Popp, said Thursday in a statement. "He is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days of observation and treatment. The Leader is grateful to the medical professionals for their care and to his colleagues for their warm wishes.”
McConnell fell after an event for the Senate Leadership Fund — a Republican super PAC aligned with McConnell and GOP leadership — at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, said two senators who attended.
Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman for the Washington Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, said Thursday morning that an “adult male” was transported from the Waldorf Astoria at 9:17 p.m. Wednesday and that the call was dispatched after a report of a fall at the hotel. The person was transported to a local hospital, and “notes did not indicate patient condition,” he said.
He said he could not specify whether the person was McConnell or which hospital he was taken to, citing privacy issues under a federal law restricting release of medical information.
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