The 10 Worst Nursing Homes in Minnesota

  Worst Nursing Homes in Minnesota By City

Every city in Minnesota has its own set of challenges and standards when it comes to nursing home care. To help you find the information most relevant to your location, we've compiled city-specific rankings of the worst-rated nursing homes. Click on the links below to explore the detailed lists for each city.

Worst Nursing Homes in Minneapolis

• The Villas at Bryn Mawr LLC (219.25)
• Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. (2025-04-29)
• Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (2025-04-29)
• Bywood East Health Care (216.25)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2025-06-06)
• Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies. (2025-06-06)
• Southside Care Center (197)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-04-04)
• Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. (2025-04-04)
• Providence Place (163.75)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-06-09)
• Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. (2025-05-15)
• Lakehouse Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (150)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2025-02-05)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-01-14)
• Grand Avenue Rest Home (148)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2025-02-21)
• Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. (2025-02-21)
• Birchwood Care Home (110.75)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-05-02)
• Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. (2025-05-02)
• Catholic Eldercare On Main (107.25)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-11-07)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2024-11-07)
• Mount Olivet Careview Home (96.25)
• Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. (2025-02-28)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2025-02-28)
• The Estates at Chateau LLC (88)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2025-05-30)
• Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2025-05-30)

Worst Nursing Homes in St. Paul

Worst Nursing Homes in Rochester

• Waterview Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Ctr (1101)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2025-06-30)
• Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility. (2025-06-30)
• Rochester Residence and Care Center (429.75)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-05-29)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-05-29)
• Edenbrook of Rochester (170.25)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-07-01)
• Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. (2025-07-01)
• Rochester Rehabilitation and Living Center (160)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2025-05-29)
• Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2025-05-29)
• The Pearl Nursing Center of Rochester (121.5)
• Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident?s advance directives. (2025-01-13)
• Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently. (2025-01-13)
• Wesley Gardens Corporation (104)
• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2024-11-18)
• Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. (2024-09-04)
• Madonna Towers of Rochester Inc (91.5)
• Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2025-03-20)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-03-20)
• Rochester East Health Services (84)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-03-12)
• Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. (2025-03-12)
• Rochester Center For Rehabilitation and Nursing (68.5)
• Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility. (2025-03-05)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-03-05)
• Blossom Health Care Center Inc (64.5)
• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2024-11-27)
• Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. (2024-11-21)

Worst Nursing Homes in Duluth

• Hilltop Healthcare Rehabilitation and Skilled Nurs (171)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-05-20)
• Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function. (2025-05-20)
• Bayshore Residence and Rehabilitation Center (101.75)
• Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. (2025-05-20)
• Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. (2025-05-20)
• Franciscan Health Center (93)
• Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (2025-01-31)
• The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands. (2025-01-31)
• Viewcrest Health Center (81)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-03-14)
• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2024-10-04)
• Aftenro Home (43)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-02-24)
• Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (2025-02-24)
• The North Shore Estates LLC (28)
• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2025-04-18)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2025-04-09)
• Benedictine Health Center (22)
• Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing. (2024-11-27)
• To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals. (2024-11-27)
• Ecumen Lakeshore (17)
• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2024-06-25)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-06-25)

Worst Nursing Homes in St. Cloud

  Related Lists and Resources

While it's important to be aware of the lowest-rated facilities, we also provide resources to help you find the best care available. Check out our other lists to find top-rated nursing homes and facilities that excel in specific areas.

• Best Nursing Homes in Minnesota
• Analysis of Nursing Homes in Minnesota

  Making Informed Decisions

Understanding our rankings and how they are derived can empower you to make better choices for your loved ones. Remember, a low rating in one area doesn't necessarily mean a facility is entirely unsuitable; it's a starting point for further investigation.

  Tips for Evaluating Nursing Homes in Minnesota:

• Schedule visits to potential facilities
• Speak with staff and residents
• Review recent inspection reports
• Consider the specific needs of your loved one

Disclaimer: NursingHomeDatabase.com does not have a relationship, either commercial or otherwise, with any of the skilled nursing facilities referred to on this site. This is an independent resource that tries to make more and better information available to the public.

  More Resources for Families

Navigating the world of nursing home care can be overwhelming. Here are some resources to help you make the best decisions for your family:

• The Role of Family in Nursing Home Care
• Navigating Medicaid for Nursing Home Care
• How to Handle a Nursing Home Discharge
• Understanding Nursing Home Ratings and What They Mean
• Questions to Ask During a Nursing Home Visit

  How We Compile Nursing Home Ratings in Minnesota

Every month, we rank all of the skilled nursing facilities in Minnesota. These rankings are based on data provided by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid measures ("CMS"), including the CMS 5-Star Rating System and the Health Inspection Scores. The list of the Worst Skilled Nursing Facilities in Minnesota is based on the weighted overall health inspection score which is a composite of CMS's three most recent skilled nursing home inspection scores weighted to give the most recent inspection more importance.

The CMS 5-Star Rating System rates skilled nursing facilities from one to five stars, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest. The rating system also rates Minnesota nursing homes across five different dimensions including overall rating, health inspection rating, quality measures rating, overall staffing rating, and RN staffing rating (RN is an acronym for Registered Nurse).

In addition to the 5-Star Rating System, CMS provides numerical metrics that summarize:

• Health Inspection Domain. The health inspection rating is based on the three most recent standard surveys for each nursing home, results from any complaint investigations during the most recent three-year period, and any repeat revisits needed to verify that required corrections have brought the facility back into compliance. CMS calculates a weighted deficiency score based on points assigned to health deficiencies identified in each active provider’s current health inspection survey and the two prior surveys (including revisits), as well as deficiency findings from the most recent three years of complaint investigations. More recent surveys are weighted more heavily than older surveys: the most recent period (cycle 1) is assigned a weighting factor of 1/2, the previous period (cycle 2) has a weighting factor of 1/3, and the second prior survey (cycle 3) has a weighting factor of 1/6. The weighted time period scores are then summed to create the survey score for each facility.
• Staffing Domain. Using multiple reporting methods, CMS calculates the amount of time that the nursing staff spends with residents. This is measured across multiple dimensions, one each for three different levels of nursing, including Registered Nurses (“RNs”), Licensed Practical Nurses (“LPNs”), and Certified Nursing Assistants (“CNAs”), plus one metric that totals all contributions. These metrics are expressed in hours per resident per day. CMS also provides state-level and national averages for the metrics to allow for additional comparisons.
• Quality Measures Domain. A set of quality measures (QMs) has been developed from MDS-based indicators to describe the quality of care provided in nursing homes. These measures address a broad range of functioning and health status in multiple care areas. The facility rating for the QM domain is based on performance on a subset of 11 (out of 18) of the QMs. Ratings for the QM domain are calculated using the three most recent quarters for which data are available. This time period specification was selected to increase the number of assessments available for calculating the QM rating, increasing the stability of estimates and reducing the number of facilities that do not have enough data to report QM ratings.
• Abuse Flag. Abuse is always a concern in skilled nursing facilities. To highlight the issue, CMS has extracted this feature as its own flag. Facilities with an actual abuse event or where the potential for abuse has been shown for the past two years are flagged. The Health Inspection Score is capped at 2-stars for nursing homes that have been flagged for abuse.

Skilled nursing facilities that are new and do not have at least two surveys completed are not rated by CMS. These facilities may have health inspection scores that can be used to evaluate the facility.

One complication in Minnesota nursing home inspections is the COVID-19 pandemic. Although inspections should be performed every 12 months, COVID has decreased this frequency. While CMS admits that only in “rare cases” do these inspections increase to 15 months, our analysis suggests that this time frame may be even longer. This report shows that the time between inspections is now just under 500 days (more than sixteen months). There are now hundreds of skilled nursing homes in the United States that have not been inspected in more than 24 months. This list shows the skilled nursing homes with the longest period since being inspected. According to the CMS data, these homes have not been inspected since 2018!