Assisted Living

Brookdale Norman

Name: Brookdale Norman
Address: 1701 EAST ALAMEDA, Norman, OK, 73071, US
Price range: $5,585/mo

1701 EAST ALAMEDA, NORMAN, OK 73071

Monthly Cost

Starting at $5,585/mo

Licensed Beds

County

CLEVELAND

Care Type

Assisted Living

Starting price — actual cost depends on care level and room type. Call Paul for a personalized quote at no cost to your family.

What it’s like

Brookdale Norman is an assisted living community in Norman, Oklahoma, where residents "focus on the good stuff, like yoga classes, day trips or relaxing afternoons with friends while we handle the rest." The community pairs private apartments with warm shared spaces including a fireside living room, sunroom, patio, and a courtyard with gardening and greenhouse space. Assistance is available 24/7, and the approach emphasizes independence, genuine community connection, and "purpose, connection and joy each day."

Daily life includes personalized care, daily-living assistance, and medication management, with housekeeping, laundry, and dining included. Meals are prepared using Signature Seasonings to reduce sodium, and the daily activities calendar ranges from relaxation and bingo to walking partners and puzzles. The Personal Solutions program discreetly delivers personal-care items to residents' doors.

Community Care and Amenities

Care levels, room types and features at Brookdale Norman. Not sure which of these your loved one actually needs? That’s where I can help — most families are guessing at this part, and guessing wrong is expensive.

Assisted Living
Private Apartment
Semi-Private Room
Chef-Prepared Meals
Restaurant-Style Dining
Social Activities
Housekeeping & Laundry
Fitness & Wellness
Beauty Salon
Outdoor Courtyard
Transportation
24-Hour Staff
Medication Management
Pet Friendly
Assisted living personalized care
Daily living assistance
Dining (Signature Seasonings)
Housekeeping
Laundry services
Health and wellness programs
Emergency alert system
Parking
Beauty/barber shop
Courtyard and garden
Gardening/greenhouse
Porch
Therapy room
Landscaped grounds
Fireside living room
Computer/internet access
Keypad entry
Piano
Optimum Life program (define meaningful activities around interests)
Personal Solutions (discreet delivery of personal-care items)
Signature Seasonings (custom flavor blends reducing sodium)
Gardening/greenhouse space
Yoga classes and day trips

State Inspection Record

Oklahoma inspects every assisted living and memory care community on a regular schedule, plus any time a complaint comes in. Inspectors are state employees, not part of this site — what follows is what they found, in their own words.

Built by Paul Swales, a senior placement advisor, from Oklahoma State Department of Health inspection records — not from reviews. Assisted living and memory care have no federal star rating.

What state inspectors found

2 inspections in the last two years · 1 with no deficiencies cited · 1 with findings

Brookdale Norman has a mixed recent record, and it is worth knowing both halves. In August 2024 the state did a full inspection plus a complaint investigation and cited nothing, with the surveyor noting staff answering call lights and helping residents with daily care in clean, odor-free halls. The December 2025 relicensure survey was harder on the community: inspectors cited three problems, the most serious being that three of eight sampled residents missed doses of prescribed medications because the medications were not in stock. The community submitted a correction plan the state accepted, and a March 2026 revisit confirmed the problems were fixed.

In the December 2025 visit, inspectors specifically looked into complaint allegations of neglect, coercion, denial of resident choice, weight loss from poor nutrition, fall hazards, and slow call-light response. None of those areas ended up among the three deficiencies the state wrote up. 12-29-2025
The community responded to what was found. The state accepted its correction plan, and a follow-up review in March 2026 confirmed the December 2025 deficiencies had been corrected and the community was back in substantial compliance. 12-29-2025
In August 2024 the state completed a full relicensure inspection and a complaint investigation at the same time, and found nothing at all to cite. 08-13-2024
During that 2024 visit the surveyor watched staff answering call lights and helping residents with everyday tasks such as dressing, bathing and getting around, and walked the halls checking for odors and a clean, home-like feel. 08-13-2024

Show all 5 findings

The 2024 complaint alleged the community did not supervise residents well enough to prevent falls, did not have enough staff, and did not answer call lights in a timely way. Inspectors came in unannounced, sampled eight residents, reviewed staffing records and grievance records, and interviewed residents and staff. No deficiency came out of it. 08-13-2024

What the state also noted

— The December 2025 survey cited three deficiencies: food temperatures not checked before meal service, a menu substitution made without notifying the dietitian, and medications not administered per physician orders for 3 of 8 sampled residents because the medications were unavailable.
— The state's letter described the December 2025 deficiencies as representing 'the potential for more than minimal harm.'
— This facility's site rating is Fair, and the positives above should be read alongside the December 2025 citations, not instead of them.
— Missed medications included a Parkinson's medication, a mood stabilizer for a resident with bipolar disorder and epilepsy, and several ongoing daily medications over multiple days.
— OSDH reports do not formally label complaints 'substantiated' or 'unsubstantiated'; the count here reflects that the medication allegation in complaint #OK00088033 corresponds to a citation, while the other allegations do not.

Summarized from Oklahoma State Department of Health survey documents. Inspections are a snapshot of specific days and sample a small number of residents.

Full inspection history

Every inspection Oklahoma has on record for this community. The rating is based on the last 2 years, so a community is not scored on something it corrected long ago — but the older record is here to read either way.

Counts toward the rating

2025-12-29Complaint investigation
Findings cited, none rising to harm
- The community failed to ensure the dietician was notified and approved meal substitutions for 1 of 2 meal observations.
- The community failed to ensure residents received theirmedication according to physician's orders for 3(#2, 4, and #5) of 8 sampled residents reviewedfor medications.
- The community failed to ensure that residents received their those residents found to have been affected by the medication as per doctor's orders.
- The community failed to ensure food temperatures from the steam table were obtained to ensure temperature was maintained above 135 degrees prior to meal service for 1of 1 meal service observed.

Earlier inspections on record (3) — not counted toward the rating

2024-08-13Complaint investigationhistory
No deficiencies were cited
2023-05-25Routine inspectionhistory
No deficiencies were cited
2020-03-10Complaint investigationhistory
Actual harm cited
- The community failed to administer Lasix (a diuretic) medication as ordered by the physician for 1 (#3) of 1 resident who depended on the center's staff to administer their medication.
- The community failed to transcribe physician orders correctly to the electronic medication administration record (eMAR) for 1 (#3) of 1 resident who received the wrong dose of medication.

These are the state’s own inspection reports, which anyone can request from the Oklahoma State Department of Health. We read them; we don’t write them.

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The price above is not the price you’ll pay. Care-level charges, community fees, medication management and second-person fees all stack on top of that base rate. I’ll walk you through what this community really charges for someone in your loved one’s situation — and push to get the move-in fee and deposit reduced.
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Call me before you contact a single community.One conversation usually saves a family weeks, and costs you nothing — here’s why, and how I get paid.

I’m Paul Swales, and this is what I do all day. A senior placement advisor is the person who finds the right community for your family and does the hard part for you. I’ve read the state health department’s inspection record on every community in this metro. I know which ones will genuinely take your loved one’s level of care, and I make the calls — so you’re not doing this alone at eleven at night on your phone.

It works like a buyer’s agent in real estate. Your family never pays me. The community pays my fee, and only if someone I introduce actually moves in. There’s no cost to your family and no obligation to keep using me.

The one catch is the order. They only pay my fee if I introduce you before you contact them yourself. Call them first and you’re a walk-in — I can’t step in as your advocate after that. It costs your family nothing either way. It only decides whether you have someone on your side.

Your next step

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Location

1701 EAST ALAMEDA, NORMAN, OK 73071