What does Nursing Home Care
Cost in Utah?

In our experience, this is one of the first questions almost every family asks. We found average costs for Utah in the data from the MetLife 2012 Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs.

The survey says that the average cost in 2012 of Nursing Home care in Utah was $203 per day for private care, and $166 per day for semi-private care.

The daily cost varies, depending on your locality. In Salt Lake City for instance, the average cost of private care per day was $225. The rest of the state has a lower daily cost, as an average, of $192.

The United States average cost for a semi-private room was $222.00.

For comparison, the average monthly cost for Assisted Living in Utah was $2,948. The average cost of a home health aide in the state was $25.00 per hour.