Utah official-rule reading guide
Hospice and an assisted-living residence can have different responsibilities. This source-linked guide explains the current Utah licensing framework for Type I and Type II communities, then separates it from the person-specific clinical, policy, and payment questions that only the community, hospice program, care team, and payer can answer.
The useful bottom line
Utah's current inspection checklist describes conditions under which an assisted-living licensee mayaccept and keep a hospice resident. That is not a promise that a particular community has an opening, provides a requested service, has current staff coverage, can retain a resident, or can safely meet one person's needs. Keep clinical questions with the care team and hospice program, policy and charge questions with the exact community, and coverage questions with the payer.
What the current Utah checklist says
The following is a reading guide to the hospice provisions in Utah DLBC's assisted- living inspection checklist, last changed May 20, 2026. It describes licensing requirements to inspect; it does not publish a community's current plan, staffing, ability to retain a resident, or an individualized clinical decision.
Type I and Type II — R432-270-10(9)(a), (10)(b)-(c)
The checklist says the licensee keeps a copy of the physician's diagnosis and orders for care and makes hospice services part of the resident's service plan. The plan must explain who is responsible for meeting the resident's needs. Ask for a current explanation of roles rather than inferring them from a brochure or the fact that hospice has been discussed.
Type I — R432-270-10(9)(b)
For a Type I hospice resident who cannot exit without assistance, the checklist describes a worker or individual assigned to that specific resident, on site 24 hours a day and seven days a week, trained and physically able to help with an emergency evacuation. It also limits those hospice residents to no more than 25% of the facility census.
Type II — R432-270-10(10)(a)
If a Type II hospice resident cannot evacuate without significant assistance, the checklist requires an emergency plan for evacuating that resident and requires the plan to be integrated into the resident's service plan. It does not identify a current plan or make an emergency-readiness conclusion for any community.
Historical Salt Lake County evidence
In Haven's checked-in Salt Lake County DLBC snapshot, retrieved August 23, 2026, an exact-label topic map found 8 license records and 9 historical finding rows. Of those, 0 carry Utah's exact historical REPEAT_CITED category. Inspection-year finding counts: 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1.
These are historical rows from reviewed Salt Lake County license records—not statewide rates, rankings, a current hospice-availability, retention, staffing, evacuation-readiness, eligibility, coverage, price, severity, harm, or person-specific care-fit conclusion. The exact REPEAT_CITED category count reports only that source field; it does not establish whether a narrative mentions a prior citation or whether a condition recurred. Type I and Type II source labels are not interchangeable. One license record can contain multiple rows across multiple inspections. Read the full finding text and official record before drawing a conclusion about any community.
Keep three conversations separate
Under R432-270-16(1)-(2), Utah's checklist says a licensee assists residents in arranging access to medically related ancillary services, including a hospice provider. R432-270-18(9) says home-health or hospice agency staff may provide medication administration under its listed conditions. Those rules help identify the right questions, but do not establish which services a provider will offer today or what a resident needs.
Use this in the actual conversation
Ask the exact community, hospice program, care team, or payer the question that belongs with it, and write down the answer date. Do not send a diagnosis, hospice plan, physician order, medication list, or other private health information to Haven.
Ask the community to explain how it applies its current admission, retention, transfer, and service policies after its own review. A general license category is not a personal acceptance decision.
Ask the community and hospice program to identify the current responsibilities of the residence, hospice, resident, responsible person, pharmacy, and care team in the written service plan.
Ask the community to explain its type-specific emergency process, who maintains the plan, how it is reflected in the service plan, and how the community will communicate an actual change.
Ask each organization for its current written answer. Keep room and board, optional community services, hospice services, and payer coverage in separate columns rather than assuming one answer covers all of them.
The community and hospice program should explain their own current secure process. Haven does not receive or forward medical records, diagnoses, physician orders, hospice plans, or private documents.
Related Utah reading guides
Hospice can intersect with a written service plan, medication support, the admission assessment, and a transfer or discharge notice. Each has a separate source and does not predict whether a community can meet a particular person's needs today.
Utah DLBC's May 20, 2026 assisted-living inspection checklist says a Type I or Type II licensee may accept and keep a hospice resident under specific conditions. That licensing framework is not a live statement that a particular community offers hospice coordination, has the needed staffing, will retain a particular resident, or can safely meet that person's needs. Confirm those current facts directly with the community, hospice program, and care team.
The current checklist gives Type I and Type II licensees different requirements. For a Type I hospice resident who cannot exit without assistance, it describes an assigned, trained, physically capable person for that resident on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and limits those residents to no more than 25% of the facility census. For a Type II hospice resident who cannot evacuate without significant assistance, it requires an emergency evacuation plan that is integrated into the service plan. These requirements do not decide whether a specific person's needs can be met.
Medicare says a person can usually receive Medicare-approved hospice care in the home or another facility where the person lives, including an assisted-living facility or nursing home. It also says Medicare does not cover room and board in those settings when hospice care is received there. Verify current eligibility, covered services, any other payer rules, and the community's own charges directly with the payer, hospice program, and community; this guide does not give a coverage or financial decision.
No. The state requirements are not a retention promise. A community must apply its current written policies and assessment process, and the hospice program and care team determine their own roles. Ask for a current, written explanation of responsibilities, evacuation planning where relevant, charges, and any transfer or discharge terms.
No. Haven does not receive private medical records, diagnoses, hospice plans, physician orders, or other health information through this guide. Ask the community and hospice program for their secure process if they need documents.
Reviewed August 24, 2026. Utah rules, inspection materials, community policies, hospice programs, and coverage terms can change. Confirm the current official source and the community's and payer's actual documents before acting. This guide does not provide medical, legal, financial, emergency, coverage, or placement advice; assess health needs; determine hospice eligibility; interpret a contract; make a referral; or arrange a move.