Utah Revokes Provo Canyon School License After Health And Safety Noncompliance

Utah revoked the license of Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville, saying the boarding school had “failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients.”

The state action took effect on Monday and cited multiple noncompliance issues against the Provo Canyon School campus in Springville, with citations that go back to 2025.

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The school has 15 days to request a hearing before Utah’s health and human services department, and state health officials imposed temporary restrictions on the school in May after staff did not seek immediate medical care for a student with serious injuries.

In its letter, Utah ordered that all services at the campus must be terminated by Aug. 6, and the school did not immediately respond to an Associated Press email seeking comment.

Paris Hilton said in a statement provided Tuesday that “Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care,” and she added, “I was one of those children.”

Hilton alleged that staff members beat her, watched her shower, fed her unknown pills and locked her in solitary confinement without clothing, and she called on Utah licensors to shut down the school.

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The Guardian reported that Hilton spent almost a year at the school in the late 1990s, and NBC News similarly said she spent almost a year there in the late 1990s.

The Guardian also reported that the school is under new ownership and that the administration has said it cannot comment on anything that came before the change, including Hilton’s time there.

Utah’s action threatens the continued operation of the Provo Canyon School campus in Springville because the state said the school has 15 days to request a hearing before the Department of Health & Human Services.

“In a lengthy interview with Glamour UK on February 23, 2023, the Hilton empire’s wealthy heiress spoke openly about significant and difficult trials in her life, far from the image of a superficial bimbo that helped make her famous”

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The state’s wide-ranging citations include failing to increase staff-to-client ratios, engaging in an unnecessary restraint and aggressive physical contact with a client, neglecting care, and not verifying employee information or submitting background checks for applicants in a timely manner.

NBC News said state health officials imposed temporary restrictions on the school in May after staff did not seek immediate medical care for a student with serious injuries, and the measure now requires all services to end by Aug. 6.

In June, Hilton returned to the school to speak in support of two families who filed lawsuits alleging their children were mistreated there, while the school’s administration said it can’t comment on anything that came before the change in management.