Status: Enacted — Signed by Governor Tim Walz on May 22, 2023. Codified at Minn. Stat. § 144.566. Annual hospital action-plan reporting to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) began January 1, 2025.

Bill Number: MN SF 1384 / HF 1700 (2023 session); codified at Minn. Stat. § 144.566

Jurisdiction: Minnesota

Category: Healthcare Workplace Violence, Hospital Security

Industries: Healthcare

Enacted Date: May 22, 2023

Effective Date: Initial requirements effective in 2024; annual MDH action-plan reporting effective January 1, 2025

Summary: The Minnesota Nurse and Patient Safety Act amended Minn. Stat. § 144.566 to require every Minnesota hospital to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, with meaningful input from registered nurses and other direct-care staff. The statute mandates a hospital-specific risk assessment, a written prevention plan, training, an incident reporting system, and an annual review — and requires hospitals to submit their most recent action plan and annual review results to the Minnesota Department of Health on at least an annual basis beginning January 1, 2025.

Minnesota is one of the earliest states to require hospitals to file their workplace violence prevention plans with a state regulator, creating a state-level data set MDH can use to identify systemic risk patterns and to compare prevention approaches across facilities. The statute predates the December 2025 New York law, the 2025 Nevada SB 182 expansion, and the January 1, 2026 effective date of Oregon SB 537, and informs the prevention-plan-plus-state-reporting pattern adopted in those subsequent laws.

Key Requirements:

Written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan: Every Minnesota hospital must develop, implement, and maintain a written prevention plan, with input from registered nurses and other affected employees.
Risk Assessment: Conduct a hospital-specific assessment of workplace violence hazards as the foundation for the prevention plan.
Training: Provide training on the prevention plan, hazard recognition, de-escalation, response procedures, and reporting.
Incident Reporting: Maintain a system for employees to report incidents and threats, including post-incident response and support.
Annual Review and MDH Submission: Review the action plan at least annually; beginning January 1, 2025, hospitals must submit their most recent action plan and the results of their annual review to the Minnesota Department of Health.
Anti-Retaliation: Maintain protections for employees who report violence or participate in plan development.

Affected Entities: All Minnesota-licensed hospitals subject to MDH oversight under Minn. Stat. Chapter 144. The annual reporting obligation gives MDH a continuous view of every hospital’s prevention plan and review results.

Penalties and Enforcement: Enforcement runs through MDH’s licensure oversight under Chapter 144. Failure to maintain a compliant workplace violence prevention plan or to submit the annual action plan and review can support corrective action and licensure consequences.

IntelliSee Relevance: High — Minn. Stat. § 144.566 requires Minnesota hospitals to file their action plan and annual review with MDH every year, which puts a regulator on the receiving end of every facility’s control inventory and incident history. IntelliSee’s AI-powered continuous monitoring — including AI weapon detection, fall detection, and aggressive-behavior detection — produces time-stamped, location-tagged evidence that hospitals can incorporate directly into the risk assessment, prevention plan, and annual review documentation MDH expects to see. The platform converts ad-hoc incident narratives into structured, auditable records that strengthen the action plan Minnesota hospitals must defend in front of a regulator each year.

Minnesota Nurse and Patient Safety Act (SF 1384 / Minn. Stat. 144.566)

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