# Minnesota — Assisted living facility minimum staffing requirements by US state — how many staff must be on duty, and what that guarantees

For Minnesota, which rule this is is the staffing plan every assisted living facility must develop, and how often it must be re-evaluated; type of staffing rule is acuity-based sufficiency standard; minimum staffing requirement is develop and implement a staffing plan for determining its staffing level that: (i) includes an evaluation, to be conducted at least twice a year, of the appropriateness of staffing levels in the facility; regulatory citation is 144G.41, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** Minnesota _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Which rule this is:** the staffing plan every assisted living facility must develop, and how often it must be re-evaluated _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Type of staffing rule:** acuity-based sufficiency standard _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Minimum staffing requirement:** develop and implement a staffing plan for determining its staffing level that: (i) includes an evaluation, to be conducted at least twice a year, of the appropriateness of staffing levels in the facility _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Regulatory citation:** 144G.41 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> (11) develop and implement a staffing plan for determining its staffing level that: (i) includes an evaluation, to be conducted at least twice a year, of the appropriateness of staffing levels in the facility; (ii) ensures sufficient staffing at all times to meet the scheduled and reasonably foreseeable unscheduled needs of each resident as required by the residents' assessments and service plans on a 24-hour per day basis

## Source

- https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/144G.41

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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