New in Utah: documented orientation + core competencies now required for every direct-care employee

Be ready for your state survey. And keep the caregivers you can't afford to lose.

Guiding Growth delivers Utah's required assisted living orientation and core competencies — for every direct-care and support role — engaging, turn-key, and fully documented for your survey. Plus a live Care Center that helps your team through the hard days and stay. Built only for assisted living.

Built for Utah assisted living Every direct-care & support role Trusted by Utah care teams

Why now

The rule changed. The record is what gets checked.

Utah dropped the CNA requirement and replaced it with a documented 16-hour orientation plus demonstrated core competencies for every direct-care employee. Every facility now owes a record a surveyor checks — and binders and DIY orientation don't reliably produce it.

The training was rarely the gap. The signed competency record is.

CNA requirement

A documented 16-hour orientation + demonstrated core competencies for every direct-care employee.

What you get

Everything Utah asks for — produced, not promised.

Orientation and core competencies built specifically for assisted living, with the documentation surveyors look for generated automatically as your team completes it.

Meets Utah's requirement

Orientation and core competencies mapped line-by-line to the rule.

  • 16-hour orientation before working independently
  • Resident rights, abuse & neglect reporting
  • Dementia care, facility policies, safety
  • Medication self-administration assistance

Documented for survey

The record a surveyor checks, generated as staff complete training.

  • Signed, dual-signature competency records
  • Dated, named employee tied to named competency
  • Any record retrievable in under 5 minutes
  • New-hire workbooks for the printed trail

Keeps your caregivers

Compliance is the floor. A live Care Center is what keeps people.

  • Live human support on the hard days
  • 30-second daily wellness check-ins
  • Trend reporting that flags strain early
  • Every departure resets the documentation clock

5-minute readiness check

Is your assisted living team survey-ready?

Tick every box you can document today — the empty ones are what a state licensing surveyor looks for first. Nothing is saved or sent; it's just for you.

1 Coverage — Utah's required training

2 Documented competency

Utah replaced the CNA requirement with documented orientation and core competency — documented competency is the new bar.

3 Retrieval — the step that trips most facilities

4 The gaps that get cited

5 Beyond the inspection

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boxes you can document today

Start ticking the boxes you can prove right now.

Close the gaps — book a review

Pricing

Flat, per facility. No committee required.

Start with a 90-day launch that credits in full toward your annual plan. Large or multi-site groups are quoted individually.

Compliance
$400 /mo

Utah's required orientation and core competencies, documented for survey.

  • Orientation mapped to the rule
  • Dual-signature competency records
  • Completion tracking & retrieval
Culture
$900 /mo

The full program — leadership development and post-survey support.

  • Everything in Connection
  • Leadership & clinical development
  • Post-survey corrective support
90-day launch — $2,000 per facility, one-time. Credits in full toward your annual plan. New-hire workbooks $35 each.

Some for-profit Utah facilities may recover part of the cost through Custom Fit — worth verifying. Flat pricing per facility; large or multi-site groups quoted individually.

Straight answers

The questions Utah administrators actually ask.

What about our nurses?

We train and document your whole direct-care team to Utah's standard. Licensed nurses get clinical CE through their boards, as always — and they still use the orientation and wellness training alongside everyone else.

We train it ourselves — we have a binder.

The training usually isn't the gap; the signed competency record is. We produce that record automatically, and staff actually finish — so the documentation a surveyor asks for exists before they ask.

Is this like Relias?

Relias is generic and built for skilled nursing. Guiding Growth is assisted-living-native, concise, and includes live human support that no content library offers.

Does completion guarantee compliance?

No. We provide the training and the documentation; the facility verifies competency and remains responsible for compliance. We make the record clean, complete, and easy to hand over.

Schedule a meeting

Book a 15-minute review.

We'll demo the documentation surveyors look for and the retention layer that keeps your team — on a quick call, on your terms.

A single facilitySee the orientation, competency records, and Care Center in 15 minutes.
A group or associationRoll Guiding Growth out across facilities — partnership inquiry.
Not ready to talk yet?Run the readiness check above — the empty boxes are the agenda.

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