Assisted Living

Brookdale Stillwater

Name: Brookdale Stillwater
Address: 1616 EAST MCELROY ROAD, Stillwater, OK, 74075, US
Price range: $3,390/mo

1616 EAST MCELROY ROAD, STILLWATER, OK 74075

Monthly Cost

Starting at $3,390/mo

Licensed Beds

County

PAYNE

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 Stillwater is an assisted living community in Stillwater, Oklahoma, built around personalized independence with "a little help available when you need it." Private apartments are paired with warm shared spaces including a fireside living room, library, theater, TV lounge, recreation room, private dining room, front porch, and a landscaped courtyard and garden. A compassionate care team is available 24/7 for emergencies, and daily life might mean coffee on the porch, reading, or a courtyard walk.

Care includes support with bathing, dressing, and medication management, plus health and wellness programs, transportation, housekeeping, laundry, and meal preparation. Dining follows the Optimum Life cuisine approach—whole grains, lean proteins, fruits and vegetables—enhanced by Signature Seasonings for reduced-sodium flavor. The Personal Solutions program delivers personal-care items directly to residents' doors.

Community Care and Amenities

Care levels, room types and features at Brookdale Stillwater. 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
Restaurant-Style Dining
Social Activities
Housekeeping & Laundry
Fitness & Wellness
Beauty Salon
Outdoor Courtyard
Transportation
24-Hour Staff
Medication Management
Diabetic Care
Pet Friendly
Chef-Prepared Meals
Respite / Short-Term Stays
Incontinence Care
Veterans / VA Benefits
Assistance with bathing and dressing
Meal preparation and dining (Optimum Life cuisine)
Housekeeping
Laundry
Health and wellness programs
Transportation services
Beauty/barber shop
Library
Theater
Courtyard and garden
Porch
Private dining room
Landscaped grounds
Whirlpool
Fireside living room
Postal services
Keypad entry
Piano
Optimum Life program (services, programs and meaningful moments)
Signature Seasonings (custom flavor blends for reduced-sodium meals)
Personal Solutions (home delivery of personal-care items)
Optimum Life cuisine (whole grains, lean proteins, fruits & vegetables)
Theater and recreation room

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

1 inspection in the last two years · 1 with findings

Brookdale Stillwater's March 2025 inspection was unusually thorough: the state combined its regular relicensure survey with four separate complaint investigations covering care delivered per physicians' orders, staffing and call light response, food quality, family notification, cleanliness and pest control, missing personal property, and the accuracy of medication and controlled-substance records. Surveyors toured the building, watched staff with residents, and reviewed health records, grievances, police reports and cleaning and pest control logs. Most of those allegations led to no citation — but one did not clear. The state cited the community, recording the problem as a pattern affecting several residents, after finding that a dose of alprazolam, a controlled anti-anxiety medication, was administered to a resident on 03/13/25 but was never signed out on that resident's individual narcotic log — the same failure one of the complaints had alleged. The facility's health and wellness director described it as a documentation error; the facility re-in-serviced medication staff and added weekly narcotic count audits, and a state revisit in May 2025 confirmed it was back in substantial compliance effective May 8, 2025.

One of the four complaints investigated in March 2025 raised four separate concerns — that care was not provided according to physicians' orders or the care plan, that there were not enough staff and call lights were not answered in a timely manner, that the food served was not palatable, and that residents' representatives were not notified of a change in condition — and none of those four allegations resulted in a citation. 03-19-2025
A complaint alleging the building was not clean, comfortable and homelike and lacked effective pest control was investigated, including a review of the facility's cleaning and pest control records, and no environmental deficiency was cited. 03-19-2025
A complaint that residents' personal property had been taken was investigated — surveyors reviewed police reports and asked residents and staff about personal items and funds — and it did not result in a citation. 03-19-2025
The surveyor toured the building and observed residents specifically for staffing, dietary, and abuse and neglect concerns, and watched staff interacting with residents. 03-19-2025

Show all 5 findings

The single deficiency the state cited was corrected, and a state revisit in May 2025 found the community back in substantial compliance. 03-19-2025

What the state also noted

— One deficiency was cited under the medication record rule, at a level indicating a pattern affecting several residents, for failing to maintain an accurate individual inventory record for a schedule IV controlled medication — the dose was administered but not signed out on the individual narcotic log.
— That citation matches allegation 2 of complaint #OK00079245, which alleged the center failed to maintain an accurate written record for medications and scheduled controlled medications — so one of the four complaint allegations was borne out by the survey, not dismissed.
— The medication review sampled only 5 of the 22 residents receiving medications, so the survey does not establish whether other narcotic log entries were accurate.
— Only one survey falls within the last 24 months, so there is limited recent history to judge consistency by.
— The survey contains no explicit surveyor statements that residents were clean, well-groomed, or free of odors; the positives above rest on allegations investigated without citation, not on affirmative findings of good care.

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

2025-03-19Complaint investigation
Findings cited, none rising to harm
- The community failed to ensure an accurate medication inventory for a schedule IV medication prescribed for a resident for 1 (#4) of 5 residents sampled for medication administration.

Earlier inspections on record (5) — not counted toward the rating

2024-02-15Complaint investigationhistory
No deficiencies were cited
2023-10-10Complaint investigationhistory
Findings cited, none rising to harm
- The community failed to notify the nurse aide registry of an allegation of neglect involving CNA #4 for one of one allegation of neglect involving Resident #2.
- The community failed to turn a an a) report into the nurse aide registry.
- The community failed to ensure night checks were completed for one (#2) of three sampled residents who were reviewed for falls.
- The community failed to follow the night check policy and check on Resident #2.
2022-05-10Complaint investigationhistory
Findings cited, none rising to harm
- The community failed to ensure medication was administered according to physician orders for one (#1) of three sampled residents who were reviewed for the administration of medications.
- The community failed to click on Saturday for administration of Warfarin 3 mg dose.
2022-03-15Complaint investigationhistory
No deficiencies were cited
2019-12-18Complaint investigationhistory
No deficiencies were cited

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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You never pay me — the community pays my fee, and only if someone I introduce moves in. And one person calls you back: me, not a call center.

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 Paul · (405) 655-5309

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.

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Location

1616 EAST MCELROY ROAD, STILLWATER, OK 74075