Pricing ranges from
    $4,561 – 5,473/month

    Supportive Living Solutions

    2309 Nicollet Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55404
    3.3 · 11 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    1.0

    Medication error; unsafe and mismanaged

    I had a medication error/incorrect dosing here and management refused to acknowledge it - billing and cost concerns seemed to matter more than resident safety. Communication was uninformative, some caregivers were rude, dishonest or even abusive, and the place felt unsafe (dirty exterior/parking lot, smoking in hallways). That said, Liz, Curtis and the weekly Line support were professional and helpful, and the outside cleaning lady did a good job; budget cuts have also stripped important ILS services. Overall I would avoid this facility - too risky despite a few excellent staff.

    Pricing

    $4,561+/moSemi-privateAssisted Living
    $5,473+/mo1 BedroomAssisted Living

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.27 · 11 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      1.0
    • Staff

      2.5
    • Meals

      3.3
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Helpful staff member Curtis
    • Fabulous staff member Liz
    • Respectful and professional staff (reported by some)
    • Discreet handling of certain issues
    • Weekly Line support helpful
    • Outside cleaning lady provided good cleaning
    • Excellent customer service reported by some reviewers

    Cons

    • Rude caretaker(s)
    • Uninformative or poor communication
    • Dirty exterior and parking lot
    • Smoking in hallways
    • Medication errors and incorrect dosing
    • Lack of acknowledgment or accountability from staff/management
    • Cost-focused billing practices
    • Care quality concerns and safety risks
    • Abusive behavior toward clients
    • Staff dishonesty and insincerity (lying or pretending to care)
    • Budget cuts led to loss of ILS services
    • Highly inconsistent resident experiences

    Summary review

    Overall impression: The reviews present a strongly mixed and polarized picture of Supportive Living Solutions. Several reviewers praise specific employees and aspects of the service, describing staff as helpful, respectful, and professional in certain instances and naming standout individuals (Curtis and Liz) who provided notably positive support. At the same time, many other reviews raise serious and recurring concerns about safety, care quality, cleanliness, communication, and management responsiveness. The coexistence of strongly positive and strongly negative sentiments points to inconsistent service delivery across staff, shifts, or time periods.

    Staff and care quality: Reviews highlight a bifurcation in staff performance. On the positive side some residents and family members report respectful, professional behavior, discreet handling of issues, and useful weekly Line support; specific staff members (Curtis, Liz) receive direct praise for being helpful and effective. On the negative side there are multiple, serious allegations including rude caretakers, abusive staff toward clients, staff dishonesty (lying to residents and outside care providers), and claims that staff “pretend to care.” Most alarmingly, medication errors are explicitly mentioned, including incorrect dosing and a lack of acknowledgment by staff or management when errors occurred. These statements indicate potential safety risks for residents and a failure of accountability systems when mistakes happen.

    Facilities and environment: Several reviewers describe cleanliness and environmental problems. The exterior and the parking lot are called dirty, and smoking in hallways is reported, which raises concerns about enforcement of no-smoking rules and the general upkeep of common areas. Conversely, one outside cleaning contractor is singled out positively for doing a good job, which suggests that cleanliness efforts may be uneven or limited to particular areas or contractors rather than consistently maintained by in-house staff.

    Communication, management, and services: Communication and management responsiveness are recurring pain points. Multiple summaries mention uninformative communication and a perceived lack of acknowledgment from staff and management, especially following serious incidents like medication mistakes. Reviewers also report cost-focused billing practices, implying that financial priorities may be given precedence over care quality. Budget cuts were reported to have led to the loss of ILS (Independent Living Support) services, indicating reductions in available programming or assistance that previously supported residents. These concerns together suggest systemic issues with transparency, resident advocacy, and continuity of care.

    Patterns and variability: A major theme is inconsistency. Some reviews describe Supportive Living Solutions as an “awesome place” with “great staff” and “excellent customer service,” while others call it “horrible,” “unsafe,” and advise people to “avoid/stay far away.” The named praise for individual employees alongside broad accusations of abuse, dishonesty, and safety lapses suggests that a minority of staff may provide high-quality, attentive care, but that institutional problems (policy enforcement, training, supervision, staffing levels) lead to variability in resident experiences.

    Implications and priorities to address: The most urgent red flags from these reviews are medication errors, abuse allegations, and staff dishonesty — issues that directly affect resident safety and trust. Secondary but still important concerns include poor communication, billing practices perceived as cost-driven, diminished services due to budget cuts, and environmental cleanliness/smoking policy enforcement. Taken together, these themes point to the need for stronger oversight, transparent incident reporting and resolution, consistent staff training (especially on medication administration, abuse prevention, and resident communication), and management responsiveness to complaints.

    Conclusion: Reviews of Supportive Living Solutions reveal a facility with notable strengths tied to particular staff members and some support services, but with repeated, substantive criticisms that raise safety and quality-of-care concerns. The most prevalent and serious issues — medication mistakes, abusive or rude staff, lack of management accountability, and inconsistent service levels — warrant immediate attention from leadership to protect residents and restore confidence. Until systemic problems are addressed and consistent performance demonstrated across the organization, prospective residents and families should weigh the positive individual reports against the documented safety and management concerns.

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    About Supportive Living Solutions

    Supportive Living Solutions in Rapids, Minnesota, on Hanson Blvd. NW is a nonprofit group with its own EIN 99-4558336 and works to help people who need housing and support, especially folks who are homeless or have disabilities, and they've got services for both families and adults, including emergency shelter in Minneapolis where adults get a safe place to sleep, meals, showers, and some help from staff if they're working on long-term goals, and they do let couples or pairs stay together for safety and stability. They reach out to people living outside or somewhere unsafe and give on-the-spot help like survival gear and work to remove barriers for housing, and there's also rapid re-housing so families or individuals can move quickly from shelter to permanent places to live, either in scattered-site apartments or in buildings like Park 7, where they've got 61 fully furnished apartments, and they do offer long-term supportive housing with services to help keep people stable. Families dealing with housing instability or at risk of homelessness can get prevention services with some rent help and ongoing case management. There's also re-entry programs for folks coming from jail or prison, such as Re-Entry, Reentry Connect, and Re-Entry Metro, and they offer help for veterans, seniors, and people with special needs-options like Guardian Angels Senior Housing, Holy Grace Homes, and River View Apartments, besides Linden Hill, Blaine Court, Crossings at Town Center, Harvest Hills, Stevens Court, and Union Gospel Mission on the list of living options. People can get help with daily living activities like bathing, dressing, meals, medication management, cleaning, laundry, and some places have cable, Wi-Fi, telephone, and kitchenettes in the rooms, along with housekeeping and 24-hour supervision, plus a 24-hour call system and special meals for diabetes or other diet needs.

    Supportive Living Solutions works with parent advocacy groups like Family Voices Minnesota, PACER, and ARC, and helps families with kids who need support for disabilities, hearing or vision loss, and autism, with resources like the MN Autism Resource Portal and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) medical benefits. The group helps with community programs for child development through county waiver and disability services, and there's a Disability Hub MN to guide families to the right resources. Children and families have access to early childhood services like Help Me Grow, Early Head Start, Head Start, Family Home Visiting, and screening programs for kids birth to 7 years, along with activities to support healthy child growth. They offer medical help like child and teen checkups, developmental and behavioral evaluations, mental health support, medical transportation, substance use recovery, mental health resources, and even genetic counseling.

    For families expecting babies, women can get health insurance, prenatal care, birthing education, doula and birth worker support, and essentials like car seats and diapers, as well as breastfeeding and lactation support. The organization provides support in finding stable housing, helps with rent and mediation with landlords, and helps people get out-of-state U.S. birth certificates. There's drop-in centers, mail service, street outreach, housing stabilization, and respite care for caregivers who need a break.

    The mission of Supportive Living Solutions is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring. They aim to help people become self-sufficient and stable in housing, and they've got a radio show, recovery coaching, peer support, recovery community meetings, and a Correctional Facility Pen Pal Program, plus volunteer opportunities. They work with local groups like Catholic Charities, RS Eden, Simpson Housing Services, and Minnesota Seniors - Affordable communities, and the approach is client-focused, with personalized support plans and services tailored for each person's needs. Every time they serve a client, they pledge to feed a child living in extreme poverty somewhere else in the world.

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