Sep 28, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
Salt Lake City's weekly news update is here — and this week hit different. The Disability Law Center just dropped a damning report called "Profits Over People" — detailing how three Utahns with…
All right, this is the story of the week, and I want to give it the weight it deserves.
The Disability Law Center of Utah released a major report this week titled, Profits Over People.
Utah's oversight failures create a lifetime of harm, and the findings are serious.
Three Utahns with disabilities died while in the care of a company called Safe and Sound Services earlier this year, after the company was allegedly misusing public funds, leaving residents and facilities with no heat, no running water, and staffing ratios so low that basic care wasn't provided.
One facility had staff who admitted to locking residents in a basement at night.
A resident returned from a day program with a broken tooth, black eyes, and scratches on his neck.
Why did it take three deaths to get here? The report covers three facility types.
The Upper Payment Limit Program, Provo Canyon School, whose girls' campus was also shut down earlier this summer, and Safe and Sound Services.
Public money with no transparency on how it's spent, profit prioritized over patient care, and a state oversight system that simply doesn't have the resources or the authority to catch problems before people got hurt.
I don't think often the legislature or the governor have taken enough of their own power to really try to reform the system.
The DLC is calling for facilities to prove they can safely care for clients before receiving a license, a basic requirement that somehow isn't currently mandated statewide.
And make sure to drop a comment if you have a family member in long-term care in Utah or if this story hits close to home, because this needs to be a louder conversation.
All right, this is the story of the week, and I want to give it the weight it deserves.
The Disability Law Center of Utah released a major report this week titled, Profits Over People.
Utah's oversight failures create a lifetime of harm, and the findings are serious.
Three Utahns with disabilities died while in the care of a company called Safe and Sound Services earlier this year, after the company was allegedly misusing public funds, leaving residents and facilities with no heat, no running water, and staffing ratios so low that basic care wasn't provided.
One facility had staff who admitted to locking residents in a basement at night.
A resident returned from a day program with a broken tooth, black eyes, and scratches on his neck.
Why did it take three deaths to get here? The report covers three facility types.
The Upper Payment Limit Program, Provo Canyon School, whose girls' campus was also shut down earlier this summer, and Safe and Sound Services.
Public money with no transparency on how it's spent, profit prioritized over patient care, and a state oversight system that simply doesn't have the resources or the authority to catch problems before people got hurt.
I don't think often the legislature or the governor have taken enough of their own power to really try to reform the system.
The DLC is calling for facilities to prove they can safely care for clients before receiving a license, a basic requirement that somehow isn't currently mandated statewide.
And make sure to drop a comment if you have a family member in long-term care in Utah or if this story hits close to home, because this needs to be a louder conversation.
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