Countryside Assisted Living Of Tahlequah

What state inspectors found

2 inspections in the last two years · 2 with findings

Both Oklahoma State Department of Health inspections of this center in the past two years cited deficiencies, and one of them documents serious harm. In July 2025 a staff member did not secure a resident's wheelchair shoulder strap during facility transport; the resident fell, suffered a scalp laceration, and was admitted to the hospital the same day with a subdural hematoma (a bleed on the brain). The center then failed to file the required follow-up and final incident reports with the state, and the executive director told surveyors they were not sure what the reporting policy was. The August 2025 complaint survey cited five deficiencies in total, including unsigned resident assessments and a quality assurance committee that had not met since April 2025; the February 2025 licensure survey cited a kitchen hair-net violation. On the other side, inspectors arriving unannounced found the building clean and free of odor, saw staff interacting with residents, were met by the administrator and introduced to the director of nursing, and cited nothing after investigating complaints about elopement supervision and about missing nursing and administrative staff. The state confirmed after each survey - by offsite paper review rather than a return visit - that the cited deficiencies had been corrected. Families should ask the center directly about the July 2025 transport injury, what has changed in transport and incident-reporting practice since, and how the recent turnover in the executive director and nursing director roles is being managed.

• On the August 2025 unannounced visit, the inspector recorded that the building was clean with no foul odor on entering and during the initial tour. 08-27-2025
• Residents were sitting at tables in the lobby area and staff were interacting with some of them when the inspector arrived unannounced. 08-27-2025
• A complaint claimed the center had no nurse and no administrator on duty. The inspector was met at the front desk by the administrator and introduced to the director of nursing during the tour, and no staffing violation was cited from that complaint. 08-27-2025
• A February 2025 complaint alleged the center did not supervise residents well enough to prevent someone wandering off. Inspectors watched residents for wandering behavior, checked the exterior doors and reviewed elopement policies and incident records, and cited no violation related to supervision or elopement. 02-13-2025

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