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Utah Assisted Living Regulations and Records

3 minute readLast updated May 5, 2020
Written by Sho Ly

When choosing an assisted living community, it is important to understand Utah state regulations for assisted living facilities and know how to look up assisted living license information. But public access to assisted living records varies greatly by state.

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We developed a system to rate each state on how easy – or difficult – it is to find important assisted living records and reports, and compiled tips to help you in your search.

States with the most transparent records allow you to look up important information about each assisted living facility online, including inspections, complaints, survey results, violations, capacity, and whether the facility accepts Medicaid.

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Access to Utah assisted living records: Basic

Public access to assisted living records and reports for the state of Utah is basic. Key findings that informed this rating include:

  • In Utah mandatory assisted living inspections occur once every three years.
  • No information about inspections, complaints, or survey results is available to consumers online.
State provides basic access to assisted living records and licensing

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How we arrived at our Utah rating

We developed a standard methodology for state data collection and evaluation, and based our rating primarily on the objective, state-specific accessibility criteria outlined in these questions:

  1. Are licensed assisted living communities listed online in any form? Yes
  2. If Yes to #1, is the information updated frequently? No
  3. If Yes to #1, is the list of licensed communities searchable? Yes
  4. Does the state post inspections, complaints, survey results, or violations online? No
  5. If Yes to #4, is the information updated frequently? [within 90 days] No or N/A
  6. If Yes to #2 and #4, is the enforcement information included in the same place as licensed communities? No or N/A
  7. If Yes to #4 and No to #6, are violations / inspections searchable at all? Yes or N/A
  8. Is information about special licensing for care shown? No or N/A
  9. Capacity shown? Yes
  10. Payment types shown, [e.g. Medicaid, private pay]? Yes
  11. Administrator / Contact name shown? No
  12. State may fine facility? Yes
  13. Frequency of inspections? Every 36 months
  14. Website includes pricing of facility? No

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