Tracy Gruber: 'The state must navigate a balance: Ensure there are safe places for individuals to be cared for and that enough private programs remain available for these individuals to live.'
By Tracy Gruber | For The Salt Lake Tribuneare committed to ensuring that Utah’s most vulnerable citizens — older adults, people with disabilities, those with mental illness, adolescents and children — are cared for in settings where their health and safety needs are paramount. We are dedicated to ensuring this occurs through reforming the system that licenses private providers who serve these individuals.
In the past six months, our 116 licensors conducted 1,477 unannounced and 2,998 announced inspections of these programs. While inspections may result in findings of noncompliance with licensing rules, we impose sanctions, or conditional licenses, on only the most severe licensing violations. Given that only 30 conditional licenses were issued during this time, it’s clear that the vast majority of these providers are ensuring the health and safety of the individuals within their care.
When conditions in these facilities are so poor or when a resident suffers a serious injury or death, we need to move swiftly and effectively to address these issues and, yes, close programs. Unfortunately, the actions we took with respect to, the individual referenced in the DLC report, did not prevent his death, which occurred when the program in which he was placed failed to properly address his health needs.
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