Benedictine Living Community – Regina | Nursing Home in Hastings

A faith-based senior living campus with roots in Hastings dating to 1953, offering skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, and rehabilitation; recognized by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine as a 2025 Top Senior Living community per the operator's site.

Benedictine Living Community – Regina sits on the Allina Health-Regina Hospital campus in Hastings, with the operator's site tracing the community's roots back to 1953 and its founding by the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of Mercy. Regina offers a full continuum of care: assisted living, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, memory care, and catered/basic living, all confirmed under the community's own living and care options pages.

As a faith-based organization, the site states Regina is committed to nurturing the mind, body and spirit of every resident. The community was recognized by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine as a 2025 Top Senior Living community, a distinction the operator displays prominently on its homepage. Family testimonials published directly on the site describe residents transitioning smoothly between levels of care on the same campus, aided by attentive nursing, financial, chaplaincy and food-service staff.

Short answer

Benedictine Living Community – Regina is a nursing home provider at 1008 1st Street West, Hastings, 55033, in Dakota County.

Location and contact

Community	Benedictine Living Community – Regina
Care type	Nursing Home
Address	1008 1st Street West, Hastings, 55033
County	Dakota County
Website	Official site

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Hastings in context

As the region's hub, Minneapolis carries the metro's deepest bench of hospital-affiliated senior care, anchored by Allina Health's Abbott Northwestern Hospital in the Whittier neighborhood and the University of Minnesota Medical Center / M Health Fairview campus along the Mississippi riverfront. The city's light-rail spine, where the METRO Blue and Green Lines converge downtown, puts a large share of its assisted living and memory care buildings within walking distance of a train stop, a rarity in the Twin Cities. Building stock ranges from converted early-1900s apartment blocks in neighborhoods like Loring Park to newer high-rise senior communities downtown and near the Chain of Lakes.

Other nursing home options near Hastings

Jones-Harrison Senior Living — Minneapolis
Sholom Home West — St. Louis Park
Covenant Living of Golden Valley — Golden Valley
North Ridge Health and Rehab — New Hope
Saint Therese of Oxbow Lake — Brooklyn Park
Friendship Village of Bloomington — Bloomington

Listing details verified 2026-07-26 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

Questions families ask

Who pays for a nursing home stay right after a hospitalization in Minnesota?

Medicare Part A can cover a limited number of days of medically necessary skilled nursing facility care following a qualifying inpatient hospital stay of at least three days, subject to coinsurance after day 20. After Medicare coverage ends, the resident is privately responsible unless they qualify for Medical Assistance, at which point Minnesota's long-term-care Medicaid eligibility and spend-down rules apply.

What is a MnCHOICES assessment and why does it matter for hospital discharge planning?

MnCHOICES is Minnesota's standardized long-term-care needs assessment used to determine whether someone needs a nursing-facility level of care and is functionally eligible for programs like the Elderly Waiver or Alternative Care. Starting this assessment as early as possible during a hospital stay — rather than waiting until after discharge — can shorten the gap before waiver services begin.

My parent has been diagnosed with dementia — where do I start in the Twin Cities?

Start by calling the Senior LinkAge Line (1-800-333-2433), operated by Trellis, for care navigation and options counseling. If a memory care community is eventually needed, confirm it holds MDH's 'assisted living facility with dementia care' license (Minn. Stat. 144G.10, subd. 2(b)) — verify this directly through the MDH Health Care Provider Directory rather than relying on marketing materials.

Benedictine Living Community – Regina

Location and contact

Hastings in context

Other nursing home options near Hastings

Questions families ask

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