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 [...]

In a story in the Star Tribune on Tuesday it was noted that Minnesota Department of Health Investigators concluded that Providence Place failed to change a resident’s care plan after she had twice previously tried to open a door to a stairway. The woman eventually opened the door and rolled down a stairwell in [...]

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 [...]