List reports good and bad in state's nursing homes; Consumer Reports put nine Minnesota homes on its "avoid" list, identifying them as among the nation's worst 10 percent. Officials from two of those homes say Minnesota's own review program gave them top ratings.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (8/8/2006)
...critical of the nation's nursing homes, Consumer Reports magazine has labeled nine Minnesota nursing homes as "potentially...association Care Providers of Minnesota. Gayle Kvenvold, who heads another nursing home organization, agreed...

Minnesota-Based Nursing Home Operator Ends Partnership with Health System. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (12/15/1999)
...approval before the board could proceed, she...care services, the board found a willing partner...Maddeaux said the Board of Social Ministries...the partners. The nursing homes, in central and southwestern Minnesota, selected the ...

Minnesota: nursing home challenges legitimacy of union vote.(Midwest) McKnight's Long-Term Care News (9/12/2003)
A Minneapolis nursing home is fighting a union vote...the National Labor Relations Board has deemed the vote legitimate, the nursing home is appealing the effort...The union representing the nursing home's workers is arguing...

Frances Rains, 95, broke color barrier at U; She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.(NEWS)(Obituary) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (6/13/2006)
...by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing more than 75 years ago...graduate from the school of nursing, according to the African...barrier, and she taught nursing at various hospitals...medical and community boards, including in ...

As nursing homes keep closing, state takes stock; While the state has encouraged a trend toward shuttering nursing-care facilities, it also says it might be time to reconsider that policy in some counties.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (8/23/2006)
...months, the 48th Minnesota nursing home to shut down...state still has 408 nursing homes and licensed board and care homes with...leave about 23,000 nursing home beds - fewer...the 48,307 beds Minnesota had at its peak in...

Nursing homes are closing amid a contracting industry; The closing of St. Paul's Church Home fits a pattern - older buildings battered by financial problems as the nursing home industry struggles to change.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (2/27/2006)
...Care Providers of Minnesota. "We created a...a new style of nursing home that's smaller...s Church Home board of directors, and...612-673-7253 Nursing home closures Forty-five nursing homes in Minnesota have closed since...

An end - and a new beginning; When Yorkshire Manor nursing home was closed Thursday, residents and employees were taken in by the City of Lakes Care Center.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (5/2/1997)
...Nationally, many nursing homes have had...Care Providers of Minnesota, an industry trade...in apartments, board-and-lodging...resulting drop in nursing home occupancy helps soothe nervous Minnesota officials, who...

Report: Many nursing homes teeter on brink; Analysis blames stagnant state funding for elder-care crisis.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (3/21/2005)
...year." Nine Minnesota nursing homes closed last year...health care. More than 30 nursing homes have closed in...worst in northwestern Minnesota, where 44 percent of...can't say how many nursing homes will go out of...At some point, your ...

Sex-abuse cases may lead to law changes; As some debate the breadth of abuse in nursing homes, experts and victims' families plan to seek more safeguards for the elderly.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (12/29/2008)
...Alzheimer's Association in Minnesota. But the head of an advocacy group warned that "nobody in a Minnesota nursing home is safe from abuse...nonprofit agencies, including the Minnesota Board on Aging and the attorney general...