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 [...]
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 from the Star & Tribune titled:
Nursing home aide stuffed sock in dementia patient’s mouth
The story states:
“An aide at a northwestern Minnesota nursing home crammed a sock in the mouth of a screaming resident because the woman, elderly and in the late stages of dementia, wouldn’t be quiet, according to a state [...]