Assisted living in Utah: how it is licensed.
Who licenses assisted living in Utah, and what to check before you choose.
What Utah calls it
In Utah, assisted living is licensed under the term “Assisted Living Facility (Type I and Type II)”. Other states use different names, so it helps to know the exact term when you search.
Who licenses and inspects
Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Background Checks, Office of Licensing is the agency that licenses these communities. It is the official place to check a community’s license and inspection history.
What assisted living costs in Utah
The median cost of assisted living in Utah is about $5,475 a month (about $65,700 a year) for a private one-bedroom in a community, based on the 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey. That is $725 a month below the national median of about $6,200, and ranks Utah 38 out of 50 states from highest to lowest cost.
Your own cost depends on the community, the room size and the level of care. Ask each community for its full price list in writing, including care level fees.
Paying for care
Medicare generally does not cover long term custodial care.
Utah's Medicaid New Choices Waiver is designed to serve people living long term in a nursing facility, licensed assisted living facility or certain other facilities to help them move to community-based settings, and enrolled participants may receive Medicaid-funded supportive services. Eligibility rules apply, including nursing facility level of care.
Checking a community
Utah's Department of Licensing and Background Checks has a Find a regulated program search of its licensing records. It shows licensing compliance history for the past 36 months only, and for health facility programs the records start in October 2023; anything older needs a GRAMA request. A program marked Sanctioned is under a department action. The page also links to Medicare's Care Compare for certified facilities.
Help and complaints
Utah Long Term Care Ombudsman supports residents of long term care and their families.
Also worth knowing in Utah
Utah's licensing records search only goes back 36 months, and for health facility programs only to October 2023, so a clean recent record on that search is not the same as a clean long history. Older compliance history has to be requested in writing under GRAMA.
Sources we checked (October 2026)
Licensing rules change. We checked the pages below. Confirm with the state agency.
Questions
Who regulates assisted living in Utah?
Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Background Checks, Office of Licensing.