text: KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been released from a Maine hospital after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck. 
   
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   FILE- In this March 29, 2015, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush speak before the first half of an NCAAA college basketball game in Houston. A spokesman says doctors... (Associated Press) 
   
   Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said that "a very grateful" Bush returned home Sunday from Maine Medical Center after four days of treatment for a fractured vertebra. 
   
   Doctors say Bush didn't suffer nerve damage when he fell at his home in Kennebunkport on Wednesday. 
   
   Doctors said they anticipate the 41st president will recover fully in three or four months. 
   
   Bush has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility. The 91-year-old is the oldest living former president. 
   
   The Republican served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before being elected president in 1988. ||||| Former President George H. W. Bush was discharged from the Maine Medical Center in Portland today, four days after he fell at his Maine home, a family spokesman said. 
   
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   Bush was treated for a fractured vertebrae, spokesman Jim McGrath said. 
   
   A very grateful President @GeorgeHWBush was discharged today from @MaineMed after four days of treatment for a fractured vertebrae. — Jim McGrath (@jgm41) July 19, 2015 
   
   The former president was taken to the hospital Wednesday after he fell at his summer home in Kennebunkport. On Saturday, McGrath tweeted that Bush was in good spirits and his doctors were very pleased with his progress. 
   
   The type of fracture that Bush sustained usually takes three to four months to heal, attending physician Dr. William D'Angelo said. 
   
   A statement released Thursday from Bush’s office said that "the president never lost consciousness, and the injury he sustained neither impinged on his spine nor resulted in any neurological deficits." According to the statement, Bush will not need surgery but will be in a neck brace for "at least a couple of months."
target: – Four days after he entered the hospital rather abruptly with a broken neck bone suffered in a fall, former President George HW Bush—at an apparently sprightly 91 years of age—has left the hospital in Portland, Maine, reports ABC News. "A very grateful President @GeorgeHWBush was discharged today," tweeted a rep. Bush had fallen at his vacation home in Kennebunkport on Wednesday. The injury, a fractured vertabra, is expected to take three to four months to heal, and Bush will be in a neck brace. A full recovery is expected, notes the AP.