Universal Health Services: Provo Canyon School Cited Again for Harming Teen Patients

February 14, 2025

The Utah state healthcare facility licensing agency will be keeping a close watch on Provo Canyon School’s Springville campus after inspectors recently viewed video footage from December which showed that a staffer “struck” a teenager who was being physically restrained.

This was the seventh time in a two-year period that Utah’s Office of Licensing has found that the teen treatment program did not keep young people free from harm or acts of violence, according to a Notice Of Agency Action issued last week. That includes an instance last November of a staffer restraining a young person unnecessarily, according to state inspection reports, and another incident in September when a staffer “acted in a way where clients were harmed.”

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