Commissioner, Utah Department of Health and Human Services
Government service
Commissioner, Utah Department of Health and Human Services
Background
Tracy Gruber leads Utah's Department of Health and Human Services. She became the combined department's first executive director on July 1, 2022, after leading the former Department of Human Services. Earlier, she directed the Office of Child Care at the Department of Workforce Services and advised Utah's Intergenerational Poverty Initiative. Her professional background connects child care administration, family services and state health and human-services programs. The governor's cabinet biography says Tracy Gruber was named commissioner of the Department of Human Services in January 2021 and became the first executive director of the combined Department of Health and Human Services on July 1, 2022. The department's leadership page lists her title as commissioner as of May 2026.
An April audit found the three largest participants, Beaver Valley, Gunnison Valley and Kane County hospitals, used 49% of the money at nursing facilities. The hospitals say the program follows its contract and the law. The state health department concurred or partly concurred with the recommendations.
