Former President George H.W. Bush Breaks Neck Bone in Fall at Home
According to the Associated Press, George H.W. Bush was hospitalized on Wednesday after falling in his Maine home and breaking a bone in his neck, but a spokesperson for Bush says the former president “is fine.”
“His condition is stable,” wrote Jim McGrath on Twitter, “but he’ll be in a neck brace.”
At 91, Bush is the oldest living former president and has been hospitalized twice in recent years—for bronchitis in 2012 and for shortness of breath in 2014. A year ago this week, however, Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by going skydiving.
UPDATE 11:50 p.m.: A spokesperson for Maine Medical Center tells NBC News that Bush has sustained a fractured neck and will be kept overnight, but says it is “premature” to speculate beyond that.
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