Facility profile Utah
Heritage Homestead
Also known as Heritage Schools, Inc. - Homestead
Heritage Homestead is a residential treatment center in Payson, Utah, operated by Heritage Schools, Inc.
Serious violations
What state inspectors found and confirmed here, in their own words. Each finding was picked out of the inspection reports and checked by our team before it was listed.
Death Inspected Jun 24, 2024
At the facility, the client was out of supervision of staff and was later found unresponsive.
From the UT inspection report. Out of compliance, focus inspection
Licensing and inspections
- Licensed as
- Heritage Schools Inc - Homestead
- License category
- Residential Treatment
- Licensed capacity
- 16
- License expires
- 03/31/2027
- Licensing action
- Licensed
- Phone on file
- 8012264669
- Licensed address
- 10324 South 5850 West, Payson, UT, 84651
17 inspection reports on file; the serious findings in them are listed above. Search all Utah reports
Every report, by date: 2 findings in 1 report
- Jul 20, 2026 2nd Unannounced
- May 28, 2026 Unannounced, Annual Inspection
- Feb 19, 2026 Announced, Annual Inspection
- Oct 9, 2025 3rd Unannounced
- Jul 18, 2025 2nd Unannounced
- May 6, 2025 Follow-Up Inspection, Non On-Site Inspection
- Apr 24, 2025 Unannounced, Annual Inspection
- Jan 30, 2025 Announced, Annual Inspection
- Oct 23, 2024 2nd Unannounced
- Sep 23, 2024 Conditional, Monitoring Inspection
- Sep 18, 2024 Conditional, Monitoring Inspection
- Aug 28, 2024 Conditional, Monitoring Inspection
- Aug 14, 2024 Follow-Up Inspection
- Aug 5, 2024 Investigation Inspection
- Jul 23, 2024 Conditional, Monitoring Inspection
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Jun 24, 2024
Focus Inspection (2 findings)
2 findings
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Out of compliance, focus inspection : R380-80-6(1)(a)-(i) Client rights
The provider was out of compliance with this rule by not ensuring the client was free from potential harm. At the facility, the client was out of supervision of staff and was later found unresponsive.
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Out of compliance, focus inspection : R501-19-3(3)(a)-(j) Supervision and ratio requirements
The provider was out of compliance with this rule by not checking in on the client every 15 minutes. At the facility, 24 minutes passed before a staff member left to check in on the client.
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- Mar 27, 2024 Pre-Inspection
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Ownership
Documents
From the Unsilenced archive
2 documents about Heritage Homestead that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Heritage Schools Inc - Homestead.
Research notes
- Heritage Schools' Homestead program is in Payson, Utah; a teenager died by suicide there in June 2024 and the state said the program was being monitored and could be shut down (Salt Lake Tribune, 2024-08-29).
- The California Department of Education school directory lists it as 'Heritage Schools, Inc. - Homestead' (CDE school directory).
- Added 2026-09-23 from the research network map (seeds/new-facilities.json).
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