Nobody plans an extended stay in Minneapolis around a hospital. Maybe a parent is recovering at HCMC, maybe your own treatment calendar just filled up with appointments, or maybe you’re the one holding everything together for someone who’s ill. Whatever brought you downtown, the last thing you need is to think hard about where to sleep.
Oaklands on 9th, at 215 South 9th Street, was made for exactly this kind of in-between season: fully furnished studio apartments in a quiet, restored 1889 brownstone in the heart of downtown — bookable for a night, a week, or month to month, with no lease and no contract. You stay as long as you need to, and not a day longer.
A short walk from HCMC, an easy trip to the U of M medical campus
Hennepin Healthcare’s downtown hospital campus — HCMC, at 730 South 8th Street, the region’s Level I trauma center — is under a mile from our front door, roughly a fifteen-minute walk straight through downtown. No parking-ramp shuffle before visiting hours and no hotel shuttle schedule: step outside, walk down the street, and you’re there.
M Health Fairview’s University of Minnesota Medical Center is a few minutes farther east by car, rideshare, or Metro Transit. And when the weather turns, you can cover much of downtown entirely indoors through the Minneapolis Skyway System — more than ten miles of enclosed, second-level walkways linking about 80 city blocks. If you’re a traveling clinician rather than a patient or family member, we wrote a separate guide to furnished housing for travel nurses near HCMC.
Stay as long as treatment takes — no lease, no guessing
Recovery doesn’t follow a reservation calendar. Discharge dates slip, therapy schedules stretch, and a two-week visit can quietly become a two-month one. That’s why every Oaklands studio rents month to month with no contract: extend when you need to, wrap up early when you can. Studios come in three simple tiers — Good, Better, and Best — and every one includes all utilities, heat, WiFi, and free laundry in one rate.
If an insurance company or employer is arranging your housing, that works here too — our guide to temporary housing after an insurance claim explains how those stays usually come together. Some of our studios are also pet friendly, so the dog doesn’t have to sit out a hard month in boarding — just ask when you book.
A real kitchen and room to breathe
Hospital cafeterias and takeout wear thin within days — and if you or your person is on a restricted diet, they stop working altogether. Every studio has a full kitchen, so you can cook real meals on your own schedule, keep the fridge stocked with what actually helps, and make tea at 3 a.m. without getting dressed for a lobby.
Free in-building laundry means nobody is rationing clean clothes or hunting for quarters. And at the end of a long hospital day, an apartment of your own — with a door that closes, your own kitchen, and your own things on the shelf — feels very different from a hotel room.
Errands stay easy: Target, pharmacy, and parking out back
The two-level Target at Nicollet Mall and 9th Street — full grocery section, pharmacy and all — is about two blocks away, so restocking never becomes an expedition. If you’re driving in from out of town, the 215 Lot sits directly behind the building: $19 a night, dropping to $11.40 a night on stays of five nights or more. Details are in our downtown parking guide, and if you’re wondering what to bring, our packing guide covers everything the studio already has.
If a shorter visit brings extra family to town and they’d rather stay in a classic bed-and-breakfast, our sister property 300 Clifton — a restored historic mansion just south of downtown — is a lovely, quieter landing spot a short drive away.
A calm home base when you need one most
Whatever brought you to Minneapolis, we’d like to make it feel a little less like a waiting room and a little more like home. Check availability and book online, or call us at (612) 314-5124 — and if there’s anything that would make a hard season a little easier, just ask.
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