Woodstone Senior Living

    1025 Dale St SW, Hutchinson, MN, 55350
    3.3 · 9 reviews
    • Independent living
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    2.0

    Clean facility, alarming dining hygiene

    I appreciate the clean, newer facility, thoughtful multi-level layout (apartments to assisted living to memory care), friendly and well-educated staff, and appealing menus with activities like bingo. However, I've also experienced distracted/unprofessional staff on phones, poor management response to problems, and worrying dining hygiene (no water/coffee service at noon, missing hairnets, and even hair in food) that needs urgent attention.

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    3.33 · 9 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
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    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.0
    • Staff

      3.2
    • Meals

      2.7
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      3.3

    Pros

    • Clean and neat facility
    • Transition-appropriate layout
    • Multi-level care (independent apartments → assisted living → memory care)
    • Friendly and well-educated staff
    • Caring, compassionate, professional staff
    • Appealing food with good menu options
    • On-site activities (bingo)
    • Newer facility

    Cons

    • Unprofessional staff behavior on phones
    • Staff often distracted during visits
    • Basic meal service lapses (no water or coffee poured at noon meal)
    • Food hygiene issues (missing hairnet, hair in food)
    • Dining safety risk
    • Poor management and poor handling of problems

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in these reviews is mixed, with clear strengths in the physical facility and some aspects of care quality, but notable and recurring operational and management concerns. Multiple reviewers emphasize that the building itself is newer, clean, and laid out in a way that supports transitions across levels of care. The multi-level setup (independent senior apartments through assisted living to memory care) is repeatedly cited as an appealing structural feature, and the environment is described as neat and well-maintained.

    Staff-related comments present a split picture. On the positive side, reviewers repeatedly call staff friendly, caring, compassionate, professional, and well-educated. Those descriptors suggest that many caregivers and team members provide genuine warmth and appropriate clinical or interpersonal skills. However, those positive impressions are counterbalanced by reports of unprofessional behaviors and distraction during visits. Specific examples from reviews include staff talking on phones while on duty and appearing distracted when interacting with residents or visitors. This inconsistency suggests variability in staff performance or lapses in supervision and training.

    Dining and food services are another area of contrast. Several reviewers praise the food itself—describing appealing menu options and generally good meals—while others raise serious dining safety and service concerns. Reported service lapses include basic omissions such as no water or coffee being poured at the noon meal. More alarming are hygiene-related reports: missing hairnets, instances of hair found in food, and direct statements about dining safety risks. These hygiene incidents are particularly significant because they indicate potential systemic failures in food-safety protocols rather than isolated aesthetic complaints.

    Activities and engagement appear to be present at the community level, with specific mention of programming such as bingo. This suggests there are opportunities for socialization and routine leisure activities available to residents, which supports quality-of-life aspects in the facility.

    Management and problem resolution emerge as an important negative theme. Multiple reviewers explicitly describe poor management or poor handling of problems. When combined with the operational issues noted above (staff distraction, phone usage, meal service lapses, and hygiene breaches), these comments suggest gaps in oversight, accountability, and corrective action. The persistence of both positive and negative reports about staff conduct and dining safety points to inconsistent enforcement of policies or uneven training/monitoring across shifts and departments.

    In summary, reviewers consistently praise the facility’s physical attributes (newer, clean, transition-focused layout), the menu quality, and many individual staff members’ compassion and professionalism. At the same time, there are repeated and specific concerns about operational execution—particularly staff professionalism during visits, lapses in basic meal service, and food-hygiene violations—which are amplified by perceptions of inadequate management response. Prospective residents and families should weigh the facility’s strong environmental and programmatic features against these operational and managerial red flags, and ask direct questions about food-safety protocols, staff supervision and training, and how the community documents and resolves reported incidents.

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    About Woodstone Senior Living

    Woodstone Senior Living sits in Hutchinson, MN, at 1025 Dale St SW, and offers a straightforward, smaller setting with only 41 licensed beds, so things feel personal and people tend to know each other's names. The place takes care of older folks needing different types of help, like Active Living, Assisted Living, Care Suites, and Memory Care, including for those living with Alzheimer's or other kinds of dementia. Families looking for somewhere that can handle complicated health needs like diabetes, incontinence, and folks who use wheelchairs might be glad to know Woodstone has staff to look after these issues, along with skilled nursing services, on a long-term care license from the state. Everybody has a private apartment-with their own bathroom-and there are options for studios and suites depending on what someone prefers.

    Meals are home-cooked by a Food Services Director and their team, who work to make food that's both nutritious and suits what the residents like, even for special diets, and people often praise the meals and the friendly dining room. There's an in-apartment laundry for convenience and all the utilities are rolled in, which can mean one less thing to worry about. For things to do, there's a full-time activity director planning lots of events, from bus tours to group biking, golf, and even kayaking, not to mention time spent at the pub or game area, the Health and Wellness Center, or catching a movie in the in-house theater. Woodstone also has devotional services and goes off-site for religious activities. There's a beauty salon and an enclosed courtyard, so people have a safe outdoor space and a place to get a haircut or just feel a bit pampered. The community tends to attract people who are kind and helpful to each other, which may be why it's been noticed for awards like Best Meals and Dining, Best Activities, and Most Friendly in Senior Living.

    The staff aim to learn what each person needs and make an individual care plan together with families, whether that's memory care, extra nursing, or daily support with dressing and things like that. The building's set up to help people find comfort and feel at home, with spots for socializing or fitness and a smaller, family-style feel. Woodstone Senior Living also has locations in Rice Lake, WI, and New Ulm, MN.

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