Minnesota

Nursing homes in St. Louis County, Minnesota

10
rated one or two stars
8
with an immediate jeopardy finding
13 of 17
staffed below the research benchmark for the residents they have
$477,122
in federal fines since 2023 across these 17 homes
9
towns with at least one nursing home

There are 17 Medicare-certified nursing homes in St. Louis County, across 9 towns. 10 of them are rated one or two stars, the lowest two grades Medicare gives. Medicare grades inspections on a curve inside each state, so those stars are a rank inside Minnesota, not a national score.

All 17 nursing homes in St. Louis County

Every Medicare-certified nursing home with an address in St. Louis County, whichever town it is in. The labels on each card come from Medicare’s own records. What each one counts is below.

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Bayshore Residence and Rehabilitation Center 1601 St Louis Avenue, Duluth 55802 · 140 beds Abuse or neglect citation3 immediate jeopardy findings on 3 inspections23% below expected staffing$132,398 in federal fines
2 out of 5
The Waterview Woods LLC 601 Grant Avenue, Eveleth 55734 · 65 beds 2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections2 findings of actual harm38% below expected staffing$55,269 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Viewcrest Health Center 3111 Church Street, Duluth 55811 · 88 beds 2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections2 findings of actual harm27% below expected staffing$71,076 in federal fines
3 out of 5
Hilltop Healthcare Rehabilitation and Skilled Nurs 2501 Rice Lake Road, Duluth 55811 · 140 beds 2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections1 finding of actual harm29% below expected staffing$170,619 in federal fines
2 out of 5
The Waterview Pines LLC 1201 8th Street South, Virginia 55792 · 83 beds 2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections32% below expected staffing$10,036 in federal fines
1 out of 5
Benedictine Health Center 935 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth 55811 · 96 beds Carries Medicare’s abuse warningAbuse or neglect citation2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections19% below expected staffing
1 out of 5
Guardian Angels Health & Rehab Center 1500 East Third Avenue, Hibbing 55746 · 65 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding3 findings of actual harm15% below expected staffing$26,481 in federal fines
2 out of 5
Cornerstone Villa 1000 Forest Street, Buhl 55713 · 43 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding16% below expected staffing$11,243 in federal fines
3 out of 5
Cook Hospital & Care Center 10 Southeast Fifth Street, Cook 55723 · 28 beds 2 findings of actual harm
4 out of 5
Heritage Manor 321 Northeast Sixth Street, Chisholm 55719 · 65 beds 1 finding of actual harm27% below expected staffing
1 out of 5
Aftenro Home 510 West College Street, Duluth 55811 · 54 beds 25% below expected staffing
1 out of 5
Franciscan Health Center 3910 Minnesota Avenue, Duluth 55802 · 47 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded21% below expected staffing
1 out of 5
The North Shore Estates LLC 7700 Grand Avenue, Duluth 55807 · 70 beds 32% below expected staffing
2 out of 5
Essentia Health Northern Pines Medical Center 5211 Highway 110, Aurora 55705 · 33 beds 18% below expected staffing
5 out of 5
Boundary Waters Care Center 200 West Conan Street, Ely 55731 · 38 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5
Ecumen Lakeshore 4002 London Road, Duluth 55804 · 60 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5
Essentia Health Virginia Care Cent 901 9th Street North, Virginia 55792 · 40 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5

What the labels on each card mean

What a star means here

Medicare grades the inspection part of a star rating on a curve inside each state, so a star here is a rank against other Minnesota homes, not a national score. Medicare withholds the rating altogether from homes on its Special Focus Facility list, so a withheld rating is a warning, not missing data.

Short on staffing

The home reports fewer nurse and aide hours per resident per day than a published research benchmark expects for the residents it actually has. The benchmark is not a Medicare figure: we work it out from the home's own Medicare case-mix score using the CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is not a legal limit, and there is no federal minimum number of nursing hours per resident per day.

Immediate jeopardy

The most serious result an inspection can have. It means inspectors found a resident was in danger of serious harm or death. A finding of actual harm is the level below that. Both are counts of inspection tags across the last three inspection cycles on record, not counts of separate incidents. Fines are federal penalties recorded between 2023 and 2026.

Abuse, counted two ways

There are two official measures and they do not agree. Medicare puts an abuse warning on a home's profile when abuse was found and a resident was harmed, or when it happened twice, and takes the warning off after a year. Separately, inspectors cite homes under the abuse, resident property and involuntary seclusion tags, and those findings stay on the record. A home can carry one label, both, or neither, so the two are labeled separately on every card.

The Special Focus list

Medicare's list of homes with a persistent record of serious problems. Each state gets a small number of places on it. A candidate is a home in line for one of those places.

Towns in St. Louis County

A town needs two homes to have its own page. The rest link straight to the home. Each count is the homes in St. Louis County, so a town that crosses the county line will show more on its own page.