

3230 EAST SHAWNEE AVENUE, MUSKOGEE, OK 74403
About
Dogwood Creek is an assisted living center at 3230 East Shawnee in Muskogee, Oklahoma, set in a beautiful, quiet, wooded residential area. It has served the Muskogee community for roughly 20 years, is an approved Oklahoma Advantage assisted living provider, and was named Muskogee's Best Assisted Living Center (Best of Muskogee, 2018 and 2020). One monthly check covers a one- or two-bedroom suite with a kitchenette and no entrance or endowment fees.
Residents enjoy a full calendar of recreational, cultural, and social activities, including planned trips, crafts, movies, and religious programs, with 24-hour staffing and a nurse on staff to advise on health concerns at no cost. The community provides three meals a day, weekly maid and linen service, special diets when needed, paid utilities, daily mail service, transportation as needed, and medication assistance, and residents may bring their own furniture to personalize their suite.
Monthly Cost
Starting at $3,250/mo
Licensed Beds
80
County
MUSKOGEE
Care Type
ALF & Memory Care
Starting price — actual cost depends on care level and room type. Call Paul for a personalized quote at no cost.
Fair — a solid, generally acceptable record, with a few state findings worth a quick question.
📞Often nothing to worry about. The state’s findings are summarized below — call Paul if you want help judging whether any of them would matter for your loved one.
Based on Oklahoma state (OSDH) survey history — assisted living and memory care have no federal star rating.
4 inspections in the last two years · 1 with no deficiencies cited · 3 with findings
Four OSDH survey records exist for Dogwood Creek in the past two years, and the record is mixed — read it in full before you decide. One record is clean: an October 2024 investigation of two complaints, including one alleging residents were not free from sexual abuse, closed with no deficiencies cited. In June 2026 the state investigated ten complaints at once — heat, food, bugs, mold, building repair, medications, retaliation and smoking — measured temperatures in all four hallways plus the dining room, library and lobby, checked the food against the menu, toured for pests and mold, and observed a medication pass, and issued a single citation: the facility failed to ensure complete controlled-medication counts by on-coming and off-going staff on all 4 of 4 medication carts. Those heat complaints coincided with the center's air conditioning being out of service — window units, fans and portable coolers were in use and repair crews were in the building during the visit, and staff were questioned about the timeline to replace the system. The serious concern is June 2025, when the state cited an Immediate Jeopardy deficiency — the most serious level — for failure to protect residents from sexual abuse, covering 2 of 3 sampled residents. Records showed a resident with a documented December 2024 incident (forcibly kissing another resident) was later involved in a May 2025 incident with a cognitively impaired resident who was found undressed in his bathroom; the Director of Nursing said the two were separated but not placed on supervised watch and there was no documentation of safety rounds. The facility's removal plan was accepted 06/16/25, that resident was discharged, and the state cleared all deficiencies on an on-site 08/25/25 revisit. A separate October 2025 licensure survey cited two more problems — no documentation the quality assurance committee met quarterly over a full year, and an expired medication bag dated 04/12/24 in the medication refrigerator — both accepted as corrected on an offsite paper revisit dated 11/21/25.
Summarized from Oklahoma State Department of Health survey documents. Inspections are a snapshot of specific days and sample a small number of residents.

Call me before you call them. Once you contact the community directly, they treat you as a walk-in — and I usually can't step in as your advocate anymore. Reach me first and you keep someone on your side for the whole search, free. There are a couple of things about this community I'd tell you on the phone that aren't on this page.
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3230 EAST SHAWNEE AVENUE, MUSKOGEE, OK 74403