Riverview Health’s Memory Care in Crookston to Close

CROOKSTON, MN (trfnews.i234.me) The Memory Care facility at Riverview Health in Crookston, Minnesota is closing.
well skilled nursing facilities Nationwide are facing severe challenges Riverview Health Memory Care is no exception residents and staff were notified earlier this week that Riverview Health would no longer operate at Skilled Nursing Facility closing Riverview Memory Care resident transition teams are working with the families of the 17 residents to guide them through the relocation process due to significant shortages of nursing assistance and licensed nurses riverview’s Memory Care has increasingly been forced to provide resident care through temporary traveling staff the cost of traveling labor hit a record high in 2022 almost doubling from the year before in 2022 traveling labor cost exceeded 725 thousand dollars for memory care when the state of Minnesota caps in place for spending on travel labor Riverview Health was left to subsidize the extra labor expense an agreement between Riverview and the Benedictine of Crookston has been established to help facilitate transfer between the two facilities for res since wishing to stay in Crookston due to the memory care closure the state of Minnesota will provide an estimated forty nine thousand dollars in annual incentive payments to Skilled nursing facilities near Crookston Severance packages and retention incentives have been offered to staff participating in the transition with the hope that the Memory Care staff will apply for open positions within Riverview health