Utah program asks employers to serve as confidential liaisons for health professionals in recovery

The Utah Professionals Health Program (UPHP), run through the Division of Professional Licensing, provides confidential coordination and monitoring for licensed health-care professionals facing substance use or other health conditions that could impair safe practice. Presenter emphasized that “confidential monitoring is the cornerstone of the program,” and that when participants are in monitoring, “neither licensing boards nor the public will know about their monitoring, medical diagnosis, or treatment details.”

UPHP does not provide treatment directly but coordinates assessment, treatment placement, and long-term aftercare monitoring. The presenter said monitoring is “usually a five-year process” governed by an individualized monitoring agreement that may require abstinence, attendance at recommended treatment and aftercare, random toxicology tests, daily app check-ins, participation…