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1380 N HERITAGE LANE, TAHLEQUAH, OK 74464
Monthly Cost
Starting at $3,100/mo
Licensed Beds
55
County
CHEROKEE
Care Type
Assisted Living & Memory Care
Starting price — actual cost depends on care level and room type. Call Paul for a personalized quote at no cost to your family.
Countryside Assisted Living of Tahlequah (also known as Heritage Grove at Tahlequah, part of 12 Oaks Senior Living) is a stone community in Tahlequah, Oklahoma featuring high ceilings, wide corridors and scenic walking paths across 39 apartments. It takes a 'comforts of home' approach with a caring team available 24 hours a day, and apartments range from studios to two-bedroom floor plans with kitchenettes, private bathrooms with wheelchair-accessible showers and 24-hour emergency call systems.
The professional team provides specialized care plans, assistance with activities of daily living such as dressing, and medication management, with physical, occupational and speech therapy available on-site. Daily life includes three restaurant-style meals a day, weekly housekeeping and laundry, a beauty and barber shop, a fireside living room and activity spaces, a landscaped courtyard, and chauffeured transportation via a handicap-accessible bus for medical appointments and outings, plus activities seven days a week.
Care levels, room types and features at Countryside Assisted Living Of Tahlequah. 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.
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.
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.
Summarized from Oklahoma State Department of Health survey documents. Inspections are a snapshot of specific days and sample a small number of residents.
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
Findings cited, none rising to harm
Findings cited, none rising to harm
Findings cited, none rising to harm
Findings cited, none rising to harm
No deficiencies were cited
Findings cited, none rising to harm
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.
My help finding the right community costs your family nothing.
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.
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.
Oklahoma Senior Placement can get you current availability, the real monthly price, and a tour at Countryside Assisted Living Of Tahlequah — at no cost to your family.
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1380 N HERITAGE LANE, TAHLEQUAH, OK 74464