DRAPER — Barbara Brown has been widowed for more than a year.

“My husband died last August (2024) – the twelfth,” she said.

Her late husband, Tom, spent his final months at The Peaks at South Jordan nursing home. His stay was paid up front each month.

When he died in the middle of the month, his wife said she was told she is entitled to a refund for his unused days. The contract itself states, “any refund of charges will be issued within 30 days from (the) date the room is fully vacated.”

The nursing home spelled out the amount of the refund Brown is owed: $3,280.65. But she was told it couldn’t just cut her a check.

“They all agreed that I was due a refund, but it had to come from corporate,” Brown said.

Going nowhere

But try as she might to collect, she said the company eventual

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