Assumption Community Completes Transfer to Benedictine

(KNSI) — Minnesota-based Benedictine welcomed Assumption Community to its family of senior living communities.

Benedictine is a nationally recognized, Catholic, nonprofit senior care organization offering aging adults a full spectrum of health and housing services.

During the ceremonial proceedings, Father Leroy Scheierl, pastor of the Church of St. Boniface, symbolically transferred the mantle of stewardship over Assumption Community to President and CEO Jerry Carley and Benedictine. Father Tom Knoblach, vicar of clergy and health care ethics for the Diocese of St. Cloud, presided over the blessing and welcoming ceremony.

Residents at Assumption should not see any immediate changes to the quality of their care. Benedictine says it is trying to retain all current employees.

In August 2023, Benedictine reached an agreement with the Church of St. Boniface and the Diocese of St. Cloud to transfer membership of Assumption Community to Benedictine and the Catholic sponsorship to Duluth Benedictine Ministries. Assumption Community consists of Assumption Home skilled nursing, Assumption Court assisted living, Asher Haus memory care, John Paul Apartments, and home health agency Assumption Community Services. It employs 153 people and has 234 beds in total.

In January, the Minnesota Department of Health approved the transfer of licenses for Assumption Home, Assumption Court, Asher Haus, Assumption Home Care and Assumption Health Services. On February 22nd, the Department of Housing and Urban Development approved the transfer of ownership of John Paul Apartments. The John Paul Apartments, as a HUD dwelling, required additional approval from HUD.

Assumption Community, located at 715 First Street North in Cold Spring, will now be known as Benedictine Living Community-Cold Spring.

Each of the individual buildings will retain their current names with a Benedictine identity.

A new website is now available by clicking here.

Assumption Home was founded in 1963 by the Church of Saint Boniface, while Benedictine was founded in 1985 by the Benedictine Sisters of Saint Scholastica Monastery, Duluth. The transfer brings together the history of both organizations and a shared mission of caring for seniors.

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