Autumn Park Assisted Living

Autumn Park is a 16-bed family-run senior care home north of St George, at 548 N 1100 E. in Washington City. Washington County's senior-living market is dominated by larger 50-to-100-bed properties, so the 16-bed scale here is the local outlier, closer in feel to a private residential home than to a senior-living building. Medicaid acceptance is what makes this combination especially rare; small family-operated homes in southern Utah usually run as private-pay only.

Staffing covers all 24 hours, 365 days a year, with trained caregivers and CNAs on every shift. Each resident's day starts from an individual care assessment, and the schedule is built around the help that resident actually needs, personal hygiene, medication, meal support, and mobility assistance. Because the resident count is so low, every staff member knows each person individually across shifts the way larger buildings do.

The personal scale is what families come back to: the owner is on-site, the activity director and individual CNAs become known to families by first name, and the in-house kitchen puts out plated meals that anchor the day's social rhythm. Special events and seasonal celebrations pull the small group together, and the activity director runs a calendar that's tuned to who actually lives there in any given month.

What the 16-bed scale shapes is the daily experience: a single shared activity calendar calibrated to who actually lives there in any given month, and a tighter staff-to-resident ratio than larger 50-plus-bed buildings can run. The strength of this property is the personal familiarity at small scale, with the owner on-site and the team known by name across the resident roster. Washington City sits along I-15 just north of St George.

The location on 1100 E. puts Dixie Regional Medical Center about 10 minutes south for clinical care, and the St George downtown corridor with Tuacahn shows, the Outlets at Zion, and Snow Canyon State Park is reachable in 15 to 20 minutes. Zion National Park is roughly 40 minutes east through the canyon, which is a meaningful detail for visiting family who want to combine a stay at home with southern-Utah scenery.

The community runs as a family-operated home. The owner is on-site, families know who to call, and the team stays steady because the model isn't built around department specialists. The combination of the 16-bed family-run scale, Medicaid acceptance, and the proximity to St George makes this a distinctive Washington County option to put on a tour list.