Minnesota Assisted Living Report Card eList announcement

Date: Feb. 13, 2026
To: Licensed assisted living providers, lead agency staff, people looking for and/or receiving assisted living services and other interested parties
From: DHS Aging and Adult Services Division
Purpose: To announce updates to Minnesota’s Assisted Living Report Card
Contact: dhs.aasd.hcbs@state.mn.us

Assisted Living Report Card updates

On Feb. 12, 2026, DHS published new ratings and corrected previously published ratings for its Assisted Living Report Card.

New ratings

We published:

· New resident quality of life and family satisfaction survey ratings from surveys conducted by Vital Research between April 1 and Nov. 30, 2025.

· New health, safety and staffing ratings from surveys conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2025.

Corrected ratings

We corrected the resident health, safety and staffing ratings for 268 assisted living settings (refer to Assisted Living Report Card ratings corrections [PDF]) after we identified errors in data previously provided by MDH and the University of Minnesota (UMN) as part of our ongoing quality assurance efforts.

MDH collected the data, and UMN used the data to calculate ratings for the Assisted Living Report Card. The corrections are due to errors in previously published ratings and do not reflect provider performance.

MDH and UMN found several causes for the errors, including incorrect data entries and calculation mistakes across different datasets and survey years. They partnered with DHS to publish corrected ratings and resolve the source of the errors.

For more information, refer to DHS – Assisted Living Report Card.

Next update

DHS plans to publish the next update to the Assisted Living Report Card in April 2026.