Utah official-rule reading guide
Utah's current inspection checklist describes an approved secure unitoperated by a Type II assisted-living licensee. This guide separates the checklist's written requirements from a community's marketing, current staffing, price, availability, or decision about one person.
The useful bottom line
In the May 20, 2026 Utah DLBC assisted-living inspection checklist, the dementia-specific provisions describe an approved secure unit operated by a Type II licensee. The state requirements are useful questions to bring to a community. They do not establish a particular unit's current compliance, staffing plan, safety, price, opening, or ability to meet a loved one's needs today.
What the current DLBC checklist says
These are source-dated requirements in the state's inspection tool. Read them with the unit's current agreement and policies; do not use them to self-approve a move or decide that a particular setting can safely provide care.
R432-270-15(1)
The checklist says a Type II assisted-living licensee with approved secure unitsmay admit a resident with an Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis if the resident can exit the facility with limited assistance from one person. That is a state criterion, not a promise that any Type II or memory-care-branded community must admit someone.
R432-270-15(2)
The secure-unit agreement must acknowledge understanding and consent to live where egress is controlled. It must document that a wander-risk-management agreement was negotiated with the resident or responsible person and identify discharge criteria that would start a transfer to a higher level of care.
R432-270-15(3)–(4)
Each direct-care employee in the secure unit must receive at least four of the required 16 documented one-on-one job-training hours in that unit. The checklist also requires at least one direct-care staff member in the secure unit continuously. It does not publish a real-time shift roster or person-specific staffing promise.
R432-270-15(5)–(6)
The licensee must provide a secure-unit emergency evacuation plan that addresses the ability of secure-unit staff to evacuate each resident. The checklist also includes a controlled-egress construction limit of no more than 30 residents in the described smoke-and-fire-enclosed area. Ask the community to explain its current unit and evacuation process rather than trying to infer it from a brochure.
A resident-rights boundary
The same current checklist states a resident's right to leave the facility at any time and not be locked into a room, building, or premises. It then describes the limited Type II secure-unit situation for a resident assessed to require a secure environment, subject to the checklist's conditions and fire-authority approval.
That is why the exact admission agreement, assessment process, wander-risk terms, emergency plan, and transfer criteria matter. Ask the community to walk through them in plain language before relying on a broad “secured memory care” label.
Use this at a tour
Ask the exact community for a current answer. Keep diagnoses, incident histories, security footage, assessment forms, and other private information with the loved one's care team and the community's stated secure process—not with Haven.
Ask the community to identify the actual unit, not just its campus-wide marketing name or a generic ‘memory care’ label.
Let the community and its licensed professionals explain their process. Do not treat an online guide or diagnosis alone as an eligibility result.
Ask where controlled egress, the negotiated agreement, responsible-person involvement, and the unit's discharge criteria are described.
Ask about the exact unit and all shifts. A state minimum does not reveal the current schedule, experience mix, or person-specific coverage.
Ask the community to explain its current process, who is responsible, and how it coordinates with the needs it has assessed.
Keep clinical criteria, the written agreement, and a current itemized price explanation together. A rule does not give a quote or guarantee continued residence.
The official rule and checklist describe baseline requirements. A community's own assessment and policies address whether it can support one person. Its current agreement and fee schedule answer a different question. The Utah public provider record and official reporting routes are separate again. Keeping those sources apart avoids turning a reassuring label into a promise that it cannot support.
The current May 20, 2026 DLBC assisted-living checklist uses Type I and Type II license concepts. Its dementia-specific secure-unit provisions apply to a Type II licensee with an approved secure unit. A community's use of the marketing phrase ‘memory care’ does not by itself establish its license type, unit approval, current staffing, or ability to accept one person.
No. The checklist says a Type II licensee with approved secure units may admit a resident with an Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis if the resident can exit the facility with limited assistance from one person. The community still has to apply its assessment, written policies, staffing, and current capacity to the individual situation. A guide cannot make that decision.
Do not use one number as a residential secure-unit answer. The checklist requires at least one direct-care staff member continuously in a secure unit and at least one certified nurse aide on duty 24 hours a day in a Type II facility. It does not turn either requirement into a live shift roster, a person-specific coverage promise, or a statewide secure-unit ratio.
The current checklist says the agreement must acknowledge understanding and consent to controlled egress, document that a wander-risk-management agreement was negotiated with the resident or responsible person, and identify discharge criteria that would start a transfer to a higher level of care. Ask the exact community for its current agreement and policies; this is not contract or legal advice.
No. The checklist is a state inspection tool, not a live safety score, current staffing record, availability feed, price quote, admission result, or individual care-fit assessment. Verify the exact community's current documents and direct answer, and use the official Ombudsman or reporting paths if the concern is about a current resident.
This page summarizes the secure-unit and related resident-rights portions of the official Utah DLBC assisted-living inspection checklist, revised May 20, 2026, and links to the DLBC rules and requirements page. Check current official materials and the exact community's policies directly. This is not legal, medical, emergency, placement, or referral advice. Haven does not receive private health information, complaints, agreements, recordings, or care documents through this guide, and it does not determine current approval, safety, admission, availability, price, care fit, or an outcome.
For a concern involving a current resident, the official Utah Long-Term Care Ombudsman and Utah resident-rights resources are separate starting points. For a public provider record, use the Utah DLBC provider search and verify the exact location and record date.