Choosing care for someone you love is hard. The facts should not be.
Minnesota licenses and inspects every nursing home and assisted living facility, and Medicare rates every nursing home. Those records are public, but they are scattered and written for regulators. This site gathers them in one calm place: the state license, the inspection and investigation findings, the federal star ratings, and what each of those actually means.
No facility pays to be here. Nothing is ranked or recommended. You look, you compare, you decide.
Look up a facility
Every licensed facility in the state: 335 nursing homes and 2476 assisted living facilities, with license records, inspection findings, and ratings.
Compare up to three
Put two or three facilities side by side: ratings, staffing hours, penalties, and state findings in one view you can print and bring on a tour.
Choosing in a hurry
When a hospital discharge planner needs an answer this week: a printable checklist of what to verify on a tour, what the star ratings miss, and what can wait.
The honest guide
Nursing home or assisted living, who pays for what, how to read the records on this site, and the questions that matter more than any rating.
If you are worried about care someone already received
There is a separate, quieter page for that: warning signs of neglect, how to report to the state, and where to turn. It is here when you need it.