{"id":704168,"date":"2026-06-14T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:37:09","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-receiving-medical-care-after-being-admitted-to-hospital-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704168\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell receiving medical care after being admitted to hospital | Mitch McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mitch-mcconnell\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch \u2060McConnell<\/a>, a US senator \u2060from Kentucky, was admitted \u200bto \u200cthe \u200chospital \u200con Sunday morning, \u200ca \u200bspokesperson \u2060said \u200bin \u200ba statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cSenator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A representative for McConnell did not respond to the Guardian\u2019s questions on his current condition or what prompted the latest hospital visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In recent years, McConnell has publicly struggled with his health, raising questions on whether he will finish out his current Senate term, set to end in January 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">McConnell was hospitalized for eight days in February after experiencing \u201cflu-like symptoms\u201d. The 84-year-old senator has also frozen up and become unresponsive during several press engagements in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since 2023, McConnell has also fallen several times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/27\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-multiple-falls-this-year\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sources reported<\/a>. That year, McConnell sustained a concussion and broken ribs following a fall at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington DC McConnell used a wheelchair after the injury, which a spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/mitch-mcconnell-using-wheelchair-falling-stairs-capitol-rcna190840\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> was \u201cpurely as a precautionary measure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">McConnell reportedly tripped and fell at least two more times in 2023. The Kentucky senator took a tumble while on an international trip to meet with then Finnish president Sauli Niinist\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">McConnell also fell while getting off a plane in DC, a source told CNN at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch \u2060McConnell, a US senator \u2060from Kentucky, was admitted \u200bto \u200cthe \u200chospital \u200con Sunday morning, \u200ca \u200bspokesperson \u2060said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-704168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}