How do I check an assisted living license in Utah?
Search the facility by name in DLBC's public “Find a facility” licensing search, which shows the license type, capacity, expiration date, whether the license is conditional, and the facility's licensing compliance history for the prior 36 months.
The search is linked from DLBC's Find a facility page. Regulated health facility records in DLBC's current system start in October 2023, and history older than 36 months requires a GRAMA records request. DLBC also posts a monthly PDF list of every regulated health facility, with licensed capacity and secure beds, and a list of provider sanctions issued in the last three years.
Our directory is built from those same records, so every row links back to a license you can confirm yourself.
What do DLBC inspection types mean?
DLBC labels each visit: an “Unannounced, Annual Inspection” is the routine licensing visit, a “Follow-Up Inspection” checks that cited problems were fixed, and “Complaint” or “Investigation” inspections respond to a specific concern.
Across the 69 assisted living licenses in Salt Lake and Tooele counties, DLBC's public record holds 315 inspections in the current 36-month window.
A long run of follow-up visits is not automatically bad news; it often means DLBC is verifying corrections. A cluster of complaint investigations is worth asking about, because each one started with someone reporting a problem.
What do noncompliance levels mean on a Utah inspection record?
Each DLBC finding carries a noncompliance level of low, moderate, high or extreme, a note on whether it was a first or repeat citation, the rule cited, whether DLBC verified the correction, and any civil money penalty.
| DLBC noncompliance level | Findings at local assisted living (36 months) |
|---|---|
| Low | 115 |
| Moderate | 33 |
| High | 73 |
| Extreme | 6 |
Read the rule description alongside the level. A low-level finding about a missing maintenance schedule is different in kind from a high-level finding about medication administration or an evacuation plan for a hospice resident, even though both count as “one finding.” DLBC's own written statement for each finding, which we quote in part on facility pages, explains what the inspector saw.
Which rules are cited most often in Salt Lake County assisted living?
The rules cited most often at Salt Lake and Tooele County assisted living facilities in DLBC's 36-month record are R432-270-8 (administrator duties, 19 findings); R432-270-19 (resident unable to self administer medications, 17 findings); R432-270-25 (written schedule for maintenance, 9 findings); R380-80-4 (provider shall protect each client, 8 findings).
The full list of findings is sortable by date, facility, rule and level. Use it to see whether a problem at one facility is unusual or common across the valley.
How do I check a nursing home in Salt Lake City?
Check the Utah DLBC license and state inspection record the same way, then check CMS Care Compare at medicare.gov, which publishes federal star ratings, health inspection results, staffing hours and penalties for every Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing home.
CMS rates nursing homes only; it does not rate assisted living. On our nursing home pages we show CMS ratings exactly as CMS publishes them, labelled as CMS's, next to the Utah state record. We never add a rating of our own.
At a glance
| A clean DLBC record means | A clean DLBC record does not mean | |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | No findings were cited on visits in the last 36 months | Nothing has gone wrong that nobody reported |
| Findings | Each citation's rule, level and correction are public | Older history is online; it needs a GRAMA request |
| Penalties | Civil money penalties are shown with the finding | A complete picture of lawsuits or private disputes |
| Ratings | CMS stars apply to certified nursing homes | Assisted living has a star rating; it does not |
Sources include Utah Admin. Code R432-270, Utah DHHS and DLBC pages, Salt Lake County and DAAS pages, CareScout and VA rate tables as cited above; see our editorial standards.
