Crest View Senior Community at Blaine

A nonprofit senior community offering assisted living, secured memory care, care suites and market-rate senior housing, with on-site home care available 24 hours a day.

Crest View Senior Community at Blaine, part of the nonprofit Crest View Senior Communities network, offers 51 assisted living apartments, 24 memory care assisted living apartments in a secured area, 11 care suites, and 66 senior housing market-rate rental apartments, per the operator's own site. The property also has a limited number of income-restricted apartments for residents who meet regulatory guidelines, and offers Crest View Home Care available on-site 24 hours a day.

Building features listed directly by the operator include a controlled access entrance, 24-hour staffing, a reception area with fireplace, a library with computer access, a clubroom with a pool table, chapels, a hair salon, a workout room, a woodworking shop, and an underground garage with carwash equipment. Crest View has served the Twin Cities since 1952, opening its Columbia Heights campus that year and expanding into Blaine in 2016, according to the operator's site. Residents receive three meals daily, weekly housekeeping and linen service, and access to social, recreational and exercise programming.

Short answer

Crest View Senior Community at Blaine is an assisted living provider at 12016 Ulysses Street NE, Blaine, 55434, in Anoka County.

Location and contact

Community	Crest View Senior Community at Blaine
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	12016 Ulysses Street NE, Blaine, 55434
County	Anoka County
Website	Official site

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Blaine in context

Blaine, one of the largest suburbs by land area in the north metro, is served by Allina Health's Unity Hospital in nearby Fridley and Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids for acute care, with a senior housing supply that has grown alongside the city's rapid residential expansion around the National Sports Center area. The city has no rail transit, relying on Metro Transit express routes into downtown Minneapolis. Housing stock is a mix of older Anoka County farmland-turned-subdivision from the 1980s-1990s and newer development pushing north and east.

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Listing details verified 2026-07-26 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

Questions families ask

What happens after I call MAARC to report suspected abuse?

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My parent is being discharged from a Twin Cities hospital in 3 days, what do I do?

Ask the hospital's discharge planner or social worker immediately for a written discharge plan and request time to explore options — Medicare-covered patients have federal appeal rights to delay a discharge they believe is premature. Simultaneously call the Senior LinkAge Line (1-800-333-2433) for options counseling and, if a nursing-facility level of care is likely, ask about starting a MnCHOICES assessment for Elderly Waiver or Alternative Care eligibility right away, since that process takes time.

What's the difference between a short-term rehab stay and moving straight into assisted living after a hospital stay?

Short-term rehab (skilled nursing care, often Medicare-covered for a limited period after a qualifying hospital stay) focuses on recovering function — physical therapy, wound care, medication stabilization — with an expected return home or to a lower level of care. Assisted living, licensed under Chapter 144G, is a longer-term housing-plus-care setting for someone who needs ongoing daily support rather than short-term recovery.

Location and contact

Blaine in context

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