Taylor Stevens

1 week ago | fox13now.com | Taylor Stevens

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah patients and health care advocates are celebrating after Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill last week banning surprise billing for ground ambulances — making Utah the 19th state to implement such protections. The new law — which received support from both ambulance companies and insurance providers during this year’s legislative session — will also include a slight increase in the statewide base rate for ambulance services to cover supply costs.

2 weeks ago | fox13now.com | Taylor Stevens

LOA, Utah — Young families in Wayne County have had to make some hard choices about how to work and take care of their kids. Some residents in the southeastern Utah community — which is one of four counties with no access to licensed child care in the state — have extended family who can step up to help during the workday. Others are able to bring their kids to work with them or work from home. And still other parents have decided to go part time or quit jobs they’d rather keep.

2 weeks ago | fox13now.com | Taylor Stevens

LOA, Utah — Loryn Morgan, the office manager at Blackburn Propane in Loa, sometimes jokes that she works at a “full-time daycare with a part-time job.”On a recent workday, the TV in her office plays cartoons. Nearby, a crib sits ready in the corner. And in the hallway, a baby gate guards the stairwell and a toybox is filled to the brim. Morgan lives in southeastern Utah’s Wayne County, which is one of four counties in the state that has absolutely no licensed child care options.

3 weeks ago | fox13now.com | Taylor Stevens

A Utah cosmetic surgeon accused of performing “numerous” breast lifts and augmentations that resulted in “infections, necrosis, misconfiguration and/or significant scarring” entered into a disciplinary agreement with the Utah Division of Professional Licensing this week. As part of the agreement, Dr. Christopher Kelly’s licenses – both to practice as a surgeon and to administer and prescribe controlled substances – will be put on probation for five years.

1 month ago | fox13now.com | Taylor Stevens

SALT LAKE CITY — Before they were identified by their own department as encouraging a rookie to cut into a homeless man’s body, two Salt Lake City police officers were sued in other cases involving people experiencing homelessness. In a complaint filed last summer, former Officer Mark Keep is accused alongside three of his colleagues of using bodyweight to hold a handcuffed man down on his stomach until he stopped breathing and died.