The Minnesota minimum staffing levels are determined by statute and require the minimum number of hours of nursing personnel to be provided in a nursing home is the greater of two hours per resident per 24 hours or 0.95 hours per standardized resident day.
Stat. Sec. 144A04, Subd. 7 (2009). Subd. 7.Minimum nursing staff requirement.
Notwithstanding [...]

As an attorney who handles nursing home abuse and neglect cases in Minnesota I thought this information from the Minnesota Department of Health was helpful.
Nursing Home Selection
Choosing a nursing home for yourself or a loved one can be challenging. This Nursing Home Report Card gives information to help you make your choice. You should also [...]

There was a story in the Star & Tribune last week concerning a finding of neglect when a nursing home nurse fail to properly intervene on behalf of a resident who was having difficulty breathing at the Texas Terrace Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
For the rest of the story: State: Nurse’s neglect led to [...]

Woodbury Health Care Center
In a story dated April 13, 2010, by Paul Walsh from the Minneapolis Star & Tribune newspaper detailed a RN from a Woodbury Nursing Home who was faulted by the State of Minnesota for Improper Conduct. The complaint deals with a wrongly ordered halt to CPR on a dying resident in [...]

According to a story in The Journal, an International Falls Newpaper, titled: LMC nurse found negligent
A nurse employed by the Littlefork Medical Center has been found by the Minnesota Department of Health to have acted with neglect when failing to follow the facility’s policies and procedures when a resident began to have significant changes in [...]