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

What happens after I call MAARC to report suspected abuse?

MAARC serves as the statewide intake point; after taking the report, it routes the case to the appropriate county or Tribal social services agency (or to MDH or another licensing board, if the concern involves a licensed provider's compliance) for investigation. MAARC itself does not conduct the on-the-ground investigation — that happens at the county level.

My parent is being discharged from a Twin Cities hospital in 3 days, what do I do?

Ask the hospital's discharge planner or social worker immediately for a written discharge plan and request time to explore options — Medicare-covered patients have federal appeal rights to delay a discharge they believe is premature. Simultaneously call the Senior LinkAge Line (1-800-333-2433) for options counseling and, if a nursing-facility level of care is likely, ask about starting a MnCHOICES assessment for Elderly Waiver or Alternative Care eligibility right away, since that process takes time.

What's the difference between a short-term rehab stay and moving straight into assisted living after a hospital stay?

Short-term rehab (skilled nursing care, often Medicare-covered for a limited period after a qualifying hospital stay) focuses on recovering function — physical therapy, wound care, medication stabilization — with an expected return home or to a lower level of care. Assisted living, licensed under Chapter 144G, is a longer-term housing-plus-care setting for someone who needs ongoing daily support rather than short-term recovery.

Benedictine Living Community – Regina

Location and contact

Hastings in context

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Questions families ask

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