George H.W. Bush Hospitalized After Suffering a Neck Fracture

The 91-year-old former president hurt himself on Wednesday after fall

Former President George H.W. Bush in the hospital after fall (CNN)

Former President George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck, but "it was not life threatening," his spokesman Jim McGrath told CNN.

Bush was taken to a hospital in nearby Portland where he is "very stable," McGrath said.

The former president was never disoriented.

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