Regency Hospital
When a catastrophic injury needs weeks of hospital-level care, patients often transfer from a trauma center to a long-term acute care hospital. Regency is one of the facilities where Minnesota families land at that stage — here's what to know.
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Long-Term Acute Care
What Regency Hospital Is
Regency Hospital of Minneapolis is a licensed acute care hospital focused on patients recovering from the most critical and complex medical and surgical conditions — the long recoveries that outlast a trauma-center stay. It sits at 1300 Hidden Lakes Parkway in Golden Valley, west of Minneapolis, and the main line is 763-588-2750.
It isn't a nursing home and it isn't a rehab gym. It's a hospital, inspected by the Minnesota Department of Health, that accepts Medicare, Medical Assistance, and private insurance.
The Transfer Stage
How a Transfer Here Fits an Injury Case
A common path after a severe crash: emergency care and surgery at a trauma center, then transfer to a long-term acute care hospital for the slow work — ventilator weaning, wound care, infection control, and therapy that hospital floors aren't built to sustain for weeks.
Legally, every one of those days is documentation. The transfer paperwork, the daily physician notes, the length of stay — together they record how serious the harm actually was, in a form an insurer has to reckon with. This is the stage where catastrophic injury claims take shape, because the long-term cost of care starts becoming visible.
To see how those future costs get accounted for, the firm's life-care cost education tool walks through the categories a serious-injury claim has to cover.
For Families
Records and Family Logistics
Long stays generate long files. Keep one folder — paper or phone — with the admission and transfer paperwork, the names of attending physicians, insurance letters, and a simple dated log of major changes: procedures, setbacks, milestones. Families who track this as it happens save themselves months of reconstruction later.
For copies of medical records, ask the hospital's records staff about their request process; under Minnesota health-records law, patients and their legal representatives can obtain copies or have them sent to another facility. With a signed authorization, Andrade Law handles those requests as part of the case.
Visiting policies vary by unit and change over time, so call ahead before you make the drive.
Important Information: Andrade Law is not affiliated with Regency Hospital of Minneapolis or Select Medical. Admission criteria, visiting policies, and records procedures are set by the hospital and can change without notice — verify current details with the hospital directly. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and nothing here recommends any particular facility.
This page is general information and is not legal advice. Contacting Andrade Law does not create an attorney-client relationship. Representation begins only after Andrade Law and the client sign a written engagement agreement. Every case depends on its own facts, and no result is guaranteed.