Minnesota

Grounds stated in the sources

No enumeration of permissible bases appears in either captured Minnesota statute. What § 144.651, subdivision 29 states is a standard rather than a list: "Residents shall not be arbitrarily transferred or discharged." The same subdivision names circumstances that may shorten the notice period — "a determination by utilization review, the accommodation of newly admitted residents, a change in the resident's medical or treatment program, the resident's own or another resident's welfare, or nonpayment for stay unless prohibited by the public program or programs paying for the resident's care, as documented in the medical record" — but states them as reasons to shorten notice, not as grounds for the move. Minnesota Rules chapter 4658 is capture-pending; the federal enumeration is quoted on [the federal page](../federal.html) and is not restated here.

Notice stated in the sources

§ 144.651, subdivision 29: "Residents must be notified, in writing, of the proposed discharge or transfer and its justification no later than 30 days before discharge from the facility and seven days before transfer to another room within the facility." On contents: "This notice shall include the resident's right to contest the proposed action, with the address and telephone number of the area nursing home ombudsman pursuant to the Older Americans Act, section 307(a)(12)." The statute adds that a resident, once informed of the right, "may choose to relocate before the notice period ends", and that "The notice period may be shortened in situations outside the facility's control" as stated.

Hearing office in these sources

The commissioner of health, with hearings conducted under the contested-case rules. § 144A.135: "To appeal the discharge or transfer, or notification of an intended discharge or transfer, a resident or the resident's representative must request a hearing in writing no later than 30 days after receiving written notice, which conforms to state and federal law, of the intended discharge or transfer." No office, address, email or form for that request is stated in the captured sources. On timing and place: "Hearings under this section shall be held no later than 14 days after receipt of the request for hearing, unless impractical to do so or unless the parties agree otherwise." and "Hearings shall be held in the facility in which the resident resides, unless impractical to do so or unless the parties agree otherwise." On pendency and remedy: "A resident who timely appeals a notice of discharge or transfer, and who resides in a certified nursing home or boarding care home, may not be discharged or transferred by the nursing home or boarding care home until resolution of the appeal." and "The commissioner can order the facility to readmit the resident if the discharge or transfer was in violation of state or federal law."

Ombudsman in these sources

The Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care, "an independent state agency that serves people needing or receiving long-term care through complaint investigation, advocacy, and education." Its published contact: "The Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care 540 Cedar Street St. Paul, MN 55101 1-800-657-3591". The appeals statute names the office expressly: "Nothing in this section limits the right of a resident or the resident's representative to request or receive assistance from the Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care or the Office of Health Facility Complaints with respect to an intended discharge or transfer."

Sources last checked

2026-08-30

Reproduced from the agencies' own pages and documents quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination that any notice, ground, or deadline applies to any situation.

Lede

This page assembles what Minnesota's own publishers state about transfer and discharge from a nursing home or boarding care home. It is a baseline page: the docket rows and the source map are built; the grounds section and the published-process section are not yet written, as the change log records. Two statutes carry most of it — § 144.651, subdivision 29, the health care bill of rights provision that states the notice, and § 144A.135, which states the appeal. Minnesota's vocabulary is transfer or discharge, with a separate and much shorter clock for a move to another room in the same building; the appeal is a contested case hearing before the commissioner of health.

Minnesota's hearing has a feature no other state in this index states: it is held in the facility where the resident lives, unless that is impractical or the parties agree otherwise, and within fourteen days of the request. The federal floor for Medicare/Medicaid-certified facilities is assembled separately on [the federal page](../federal.html); nothing here fills a gap from federal law or another state. Confirm applicability with the agencies named in the sources: whether any provision applies to a particular facility, resident, or notice is for the hearing office to determine. Deadlines and periods on this page are quoted from the sources, not calculated for any case.