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Report Highlights Need To Better Regulate UT Care Facilities

Report Highlights Need To Better Regulate UT Care Facilities

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Disability Law Center is calling on lawmakers to better regulate long-term care facilities in Utah. The nonprofit organization recently put out a new report that highlights a pattern of neglect and mistreatment at long-term care facilities across the state. It says urgent reform is […]

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Arguments to begin in Utah lawsuit over jail records access

Arguments to begin in Utah lawsuit over jail records access

FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — The operation and inspection records of Utah jails are the subject of a lawsuit scheduled to begin hearings this week. The Standard-Examiner reported Monday that the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and the Disability Law Center filed a lawsuit in May 2018 requesting access to state jail […]

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Utah transitions institutionalized adults after lawsuit

Utah transitions institutionalized adults after lawsuit

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is covering the cost of transitioning up to 300 intellectually disabled people out of intermediate care facilities and into homes or community-based programs. The Deseret News reported Thursday that state lawmakers have directed $7.3 million to fund transition costs and to incentivize the care facilities to […]

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Utah lawmaker wants to regulate emotional support animals

Utah lawmaker wants to regulate emotional support animals

CLINTON, Utah (AP) — Seven-year-old Skyrie Sacks has a backyard coop full of emotional support animals that — like their Pokémon namesakes — began their lives as a humble egg. And, according to her mom, Skyrie is out there with her eight chickens on most days that aren’t freezing or […]

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Dallas Earnshaw, director of the Utah State Hospital, sits for a portrait in his office in the administrative building on the hospital's grounds in Provo on Wednesday, May 17, 2017.

Utah State Hospital cuts treatment wait times to 23 days

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Hospital is on track to cut down wait times for people to undergo mental health treatment before they can stand trial. The Deseret News reports hospital superintendent Dallas Earnshaw told lawmakers the wait averaged 23 days in September, down from 40 in […]

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