Tradition

Tradition is an assisted living community in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health as an Assisted Living Facility for 160 residents (license 426303). Below is what the Minnesota Department of Health publishes about this license, and how to use that record when you visit.

Is Tradition licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health?

Yes. Tradition holds an MDH Assisted Living Facility license, number 426303, for 160 residents; the current license period runs from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.

This is the base assisted living license, not the dementia care category, so the building may not operate a secured dementia unit.

What do MDH survey and complaint records show for Tradition?

MDH has posted 2 evaluation surveys for Tradition, most recently resolved on February 5, 2025, along with 0 complaint investigations by the Office of Health Facility Complaints, 0 of them substantiated.

Of the 0 investigations: 0 substantiated, 0 unsubstantiated, 0 inconclusive. The metro median for assisted living buildings licensed for 60 or more residents is 1 substantiated finding. Its posted record is at or below the metro median for substantiated complaint findings among larger buildings, a good sign, though investigations only capture what was reported. A complaint investigation starts when someone reports a concern, so the count reflects reporting as well as care.

Evaluation surveys

Office of Health Facility Complaints investigations

No Office of Health Facility Complaints investigation is posted for this license.

What does Tradition report about staffing and payment in its state disclosure?

Tradition's UDALSA disclosure is posted on MDH's site as a scanned document, so we have not extracted its staffing figures; open it to read the reported staff per shift and accepted payment sources.

Read the UDALSA (PDF). Every Minnesota assisted living licensee must file this standard disclosure under Minn. Stat. 144G.40.

Where is Tradition, and what else is licensed nearby?

Tradition is at 8500 Tessman Farm Road North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 55445, in Hennepin County, where families are served by Trellis, the metro's Area Agency on Aging, through the Senior LinkAge Line at 1-800-333-2433.

Brooklyn Park, one of the most populous and diverse suburbs in the metro, is served by North Memorial Health Hospital just south in Robbinsdale, and its senior housing supply includes a growing number of culturally specific assisted living and adult day programs reflecting the city's large Southeast Asian, East African, and Latino communities. The city is slated to gain several stations when the METRO Blue Line Extension is built north from Minneapolis, though as of 2026 that project remains in design, with construction not expected to begin until 2027 and opening projected around 2030. Housing stock spans 1960s-1970s starter homes near the southern border to newer development along Highway 610 to the north. Hennepin County holds most of the metro's major hospitals, including Allina's Abbott Northwestern, M Health Fairview's University of Minnesota Medical Center, HealthPartners Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park and North Memorial in Robbinsdale; ask how the community handles rides to specialist appointments. See our Brooklyn Park assisted living guide.

Other licensed assisted living near Brooklyn Park

• Urbana Place Senior Living · Brooklyn Park, 120 licensed spaces, dementia care
• Saint Therese of Oxbow Lake · Brooklyn Park, 71 licensed spaces, dementia care
• Brooklyn Park Assisted Living · Brooklyn Park, 32 licensed spaces
• Suite Living Senior Care of Brooklyn Park · Brooklyn Park, 32 licensed spaces, dementia care
• Motivate Home Services · Brooklyn Park, 26 licensed spaces, dementia care

What does assisted living cost at a community like Tradition?

No primary source publishes a Twin Cities-only assisted living median, and Tradition's rates depend on apartment type and service package; third-party summaries of the CareScout survey put Minnesota's statewide median near $6,573 a month, a figure we have not verified against CareScout's own tables.

Ask Tradition for a written, itemized monthly quote for your parent's assessed service level, including what is billed separately. Minnesota's Elderly Waiver can pay for customized living services, never room and board, for Medical Assistance-eligible residents of participating facilities; very-low-income residents may also qualify for Housing Support toward room and board. How the Elderly Waiver works in assisted living.

Does Tradition provide memory care?

Tradition holds the base assisted living license, not the dementia care category, so it may not operate a secured memory care unit or market specialized dementia care under Minnesota law.

Residents with early dementia can live in a base-license building, but if wandering or exit-seeking begins, a move to a dementia care licensee may be needed. See the memory care directory for every metro building that holds that license.

How should a family evaluate Tradition?

A building licensed for 160 residents like Tradition usually runs several service levels under one roof. Ask how residents are assessed into a service package, how often the assessment is repeated, and exactly what change moves the monthly price up.

Check the Minnesota Assisted Living Report Card, which DHS and MDH publish with resident and family survey results for many facilities, alongside the complaint record above. Visit at least twice, once unannounced near a mealtime, and ask to speak with a current resident's family.

What should you ask on a tour of Tradition?

Ask about overnight staffing, move-out triggers and the latest MDH findings first; those three answers separate communities faster than any brochure.

• Is your UDALSA disclosure current, and may I take a copy home?
• How is the service plan built, and how often is it reviewed with the family?
• What is the awake overnight staffing on the floor where my parent would live?
• How many caregivers left in the past 12 months?
• Who administers medications, and how are errors tracked and reported?
• How do you coordinate rides to Allina, M Health Fairview, HealthPartners or North Memorial appointments?

Who do you call with a concern about care at Tradition?

Call the MDH Office of Health Facility Complaints at 651-201-4200 (or 1-800-369-7994) for a licensing concern, or the Minnesota Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care at 1-800-657-3591 for free, confidential advocacy.

A complaint to MDH can lead to the kind of investigation listed above. The ombudsman does not inspect; it helps resolve problems such as discharge notices, service-plan disputes and residents' rights issues, and acts with the resident's consent. Suspected abuse, neglect or financial exploitation goes to the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center at 1-844-880-1574, 24 hours a day. For immediate danger, call 911. How complaints work in Minnesota.