Washington(CNN) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that he was released from an inpatient physical therapy facility after he fell earlier this month and was treated for a concussion and rib fracture.
“I want to sincerely thank everyone for all the kind wishes. I’m happy to say that I finished inpatient physical therapy earlier today and I’m happy to be home,” McConnell said in a statement.
“I will follow the advice of my physical therapists and spend the next few days working for Kentuckians and the Republican Conference from home. I have been talking regularly with my colleagues in the Senate and with my staff. I look forward to who will return in person to the Senate soon.”
McConnell will work from his Washington, DC, home this week and is not expected to return to the Senate before the chamber breaks for its two-week recess, a McConnell aide told CNN.
The Senate minority leader was admitted to a hospital after he tripped and fell at a dinner event earlier this month. He stayed in the hospital for several days. After that, he started physical therapy at an inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Previously, a McConnell aide said the length of the 81-year-old Senate Republican leader’s stay at the facility would be decided “by the Leader’s doctors and therapists.” The assistant said, “It is very common to go through physical therapy to regain strength after a hospital stay and it ranges from one week to two weeks.”
Republican senators who have spoken with McConnell told CNN he wants to get back to work. Texas Sen. John Cornyn said recently that McConnell was “chomping at the bit” to return to the Capitol, and Senate Minority Whip John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, noted that he was “anxious” to return.
This is not McConnell’s first fall. In 2019, he broke his shoulder in a fall at his home in Kentucky.
The top Republican isn’t the only leftist senator. Across the aisle, the 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is treating shingles at home after a short hospital stay. And Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is undergoing inpatient treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
This story has been updated with additional information.