--- title: Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in Stable Condition After Fall description: Former President George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday while vacationing at his summer house in Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck. canonical: https://time.com/3960303/george-hw-bush-fall-kennebunkport-hospital/ author: Alissa Greenberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-16T06:10:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T22:48:31.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Former U.S. President George H.W. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=915bca20-a65b-4760-9d10-1ed15ba4e65f&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Jeb Bush: 'I Am My Own Man' [Watch (HLS stream): Jeb Bush: 'I Am My Own Man'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/xQD7X5yR.m3u8) (1:14)  _Published 2015-02-18. Jeb Bush: 'I Am My Own Man'_ by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:48 PM UTCPublished: Jul 16, 2015 6:10 AM UTC by [Alissa Greenberg](https://time.com/author/alissa-greenberg/) ## Alissa Greenberg Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:48 PM UTCPublished: Jul 16, 2015 6:10 AM UTC Former President George H.W. Bush [fell](http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/bush-41-hospital-fall-maine/) Wednesday while vacationing at his summer house in Kennebunkport, ME, breaking a vertebra in his neck. He was taken to a hospital in Portland and is now in stable condition, CNN reports. His longtime spokesman and speechwriter, Jim McGrath, stressed that Bush was never disoriented at any point during the incident and that the injury, while serious, is not severe enough to merit invasive treatment. McGrath [tweeted a statement](https://twitter.com/jgm41/status/621707936855756800/photo/1) from Bush’s office Thursday saying that the President will remain in the hospital to be fitted for a neck brace and do physical therapy. “\[We\] do not believe this will be a prolonged recovery period,” the statement says, though it does not give a timeline for discharge. This is not the first time Bush, who turned 91 last month and suffers from a form of Parkinson’s disease, has been hospitalized. In 2012, he was treated after contracting bronchitis, remaining in the hospital for several months. In 2014 he also had a short stay after experiencing shortness of breath. Bush and his wife have recently made appearances at campaign events in Maine for his son, Jeb, who is running for president in the 2016 election. \[[CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/bush-41-hospital-fall-maine/)\] ## Transcript The words and actions must match so that the entire world knows that we say what we mean and mean what we say. There should be no gap there. This administration talks but the words fade. They draw red lines and then erase them. With grandiosity they announce resets and then disengage. Hashtag campaigns replace actual diplomacy and engagement. Personal diplomacy and maturity is replaced by leaks and personal disparagement. The examples keep piling up. The great irony of the Obama Presidency is this, someone who came to office promising greater engagement ,. With the world has left America less influential in the world. Each President learns from those who came before, their principles, their adjustments. One thing we know is this. Every President inherits a changing world and changing circumstances. I love my brother. I love my dad. Actually love my mother as well. Hope that's okay. [ LAUGH ] And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions that they had to make. But I'm my own man. And my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3960303/george-hw-bush-fall-kennebunkport-hospital/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3960303/george-hw-bush-fall-kennebunkport-hospital/"},"headline":"Former President George H.W. Bush Is in Stable Condition After Fall","datePublished":"2015-07-16T06:10:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T22:48:31.000Z","description":"He broke a vertebra in his neck","url":"https://time.com/3960303/george-hw-bush-fall-kennebunkport-hospital/","keywords":["fall","People","hospital","George H.W. 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