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GLADE AVENUE ASSISTED LIVING SOUTH
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Glade Avenue Assisted Living South

2480 NORTH GLADE AVENUE, BETHANY, OK 73008

Monthly Cost

$2,495 – $3,495/mo

Licensed Beds

50

County

OKLAHOMA

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.

What it’s like

Glade Avenue Assisted Living is a senior community in Bethany, Oklahoma offering assisted living and memory care in what it describes as a vibrant, welcoming environment built around active living rather than institutional care. The community emphasizes combining quality care with family values, positioning itself as an extended family with skilled, caring staff ready to support residents around the clock. It was intentionally designed to foster togetherness, aiming to be a place that invites people not only in but to come together.

Residents receive supervised assisted daily living, medication supervision and companion services, with an on-call registered nurse and a designated memory care unit; physical, occupational and speech therapy are available, and in-house physicians, podiatrists and psychiatrists visit the community. Daily life is supported by restaurant-style dining, a hair salon and barber, a library, a fireside living/game room, a TV/theater area and a cafe, with daily activities and exercise programs. Property management handles taxes and lawn maintenance so residents no longer have to worry about them.

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Community Care and Amenities

Care levels, room types and features at Glade Avenue Assisted Living South. 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
  • Memory Care
  • Studio (approx. 430 sq ft) with private bath and kitchenette
  • Companion room
  • Private room
  • On-Site Nursing
  • Physical Therapy
  • Restaurant-Style Dining
  • Social Activities
  • Housekeeping & Laundry
  • Beauty Salon
  • 24-Hour Staff
  • Medication Management
  • Pet Friendly
  • Respite / Short-Term Stays
  • Incontinence Care
  • Diabetic Care
  • Transportation
  • Supervised assisted daily living
  • Medication supervision
  • On-call registered nurse
  • Companion services
  • Physical, occupational and speech therapy
  • Memory care unit
  • Hair salon and barber services
  • Library
  • Fireside living room / game room
  • TV / theater area
  • Cafe
  • Daily activities and exercise programs
  • Housekeeping and maintenance included
  • In-house physicians, podiatrists and psychiatrists visit the community
  • Approved Advantage Program provider through the Oklahoma Department of Health
  • Pet-friendly community
  • Designated memory care unit
  • No property taxes or lawn maintenance for residents
  • 4 levels of care ($300/$600/$900/$1,200 per month, added to base rent per nurse assessment before move-in)

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

5 inspections in the last two years · 2 with no deficiencies cited · 3 with findings

Oklahoma inspectors completed five surveys at Glade Avenue Assisted Living South in Bethany over the last two years, and three of the five resulted in citations. The most recent, on January 16, 2026, cited the center under Resident Rights - Abuse/Neglect for failing to ensure adequate supervision to prevent elopement for two of three sampled residents. One resident with dementia and a traumatic brain injury left the building twice in December 2025 - climbing the courtyard fence on 12/11 and walking out a hall exit door on 12/22 - and was found about two miles away the first time and, per the responding police officer, about four miles away on foot the second time. Surveyors tested the exit-door add-on alarms on three separate days and found two of them still not sounding; there was no log of alarm checks, no staff trained to reset them, and the resident's hourly safety checks had been written up at the end of shifts rather than at the times they were scheduled. The same survey cited dirty and frayed hall carpet, a peeling stained ceiling, a missing air vent cover, and a resident room with no baseboards. The second at-risk resident had never been added to the staff ADL reference sheet or their own service plan as an elopement risk. Two October 2025 complaint investigations, both about elopement, closed with no deficiencies - but those clean findings came only weeks before the December elopements, so they should not be read as reassurance on that risk. Earlier surveys cited kitchen storage and sanitation, a missing 2024 annual fire marshal inspection, meals that did not match the dietitian-planned menu, hall-delivered food at 85 to 99 degrees, hot water below 115 degrees at resident sinks, comprehensive assessments completed without interviewing the resident or a representative, missed doses of physician-ordered medication, and inaccurate documentation of medications not given. The center submitted correction plans that OSDH accepted (the 2024 plan only after an initial rejection), and the July 2025 findings were accepted as corrected on an off-site paper review in September 2025. As of the newest document in this packet, OSDH had accepted the January 2026 correction plan but had not yet completed the revisit to verify the fixes. If you are considering this center for someone with dementia, ask to see the daily door-alarm log, ask how hourly safety checks are documented in real time and by whom, ask what happened with the hall and room repairs, and ask how the center decides when a resident's needs exceed what it can safely provide.

  • Two weeks later the state came back on a separate complaint about the center's elopement-prevention policy, reviewed resident charts, physician's orders, center policies, and exit doors, and again cited nothing - six weeks before the first of two December 2025 elopements. 10-29-2025
  • In October 2025 the state investigated a complaint that the center had not supervised a resident well enough to keep them from leaving, and closed the investigation without citing anything. Read this in sequence, though: the same resident risk was cited two surveys later, after two elopements in December 2025. 10-13-2025
  • The state accepted the center's paperwork showing the July 2025 licensure problems had been fixed. This was an off-site paper review of submitted evidence, not an inspector returning to the building. 07-10-2025
  • During the 2024 survey, inspectors checked the controlled-substance (narcotic) count sheets on the medication cart and found the counts correct, and verified staff credentials against the state nurse aide registry. This covered counts and credentials only - the same survey separately cited the center for missed doses and for inaccurate records of medications not given. 10-24-2024
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  • Inspectors watched meals being served in 2024 and saw residents getting the help they needed with eating, with no meal trays left untouched in residents' rooms. 10-24-2024
  • A registered nurse was on site every day of the 2024 survey, and residents were up and out in the common areas rather than left in their rooms. 10-24-2024
  • Inspectors observed personal care being given with enough staff on hand, and no resident they spoke with complained about meals, help with eating, personal care, or the staff. 10-24-2024
  • A 2024 complaint claimed the building was in bad shape - leaking ceilings, a hole in the beauty salon floor, destruction in the activity room, raccoons. Inspectors looked and found none of those things, and cited no physical-environment deficiency. The water-temperature part of that same complaint was a different story: the survey cited the center for hot water below the required temperature. 10-24-2024

What the state also noted

  • In that same January 2026 survey, the add-on alarms on the Northeast (hall 600) and Northwest (hall 500) exit doors failed to sound when tested on 01/13, again on 01/14, and again on 01/15 when the executive director tried and failed to recode one. The maintenance director said no one had been trained to reset the alarms and kept no log of checks; on 01/16 a maintenance staffer answered 'No' when asked whether the alarms had been checked. Resident #1's hourly safety checks for 12/22/25 recorded the 3:00 p.m. through 10:00 p.m. checks as all performed at 9:29-9:30 p.m.; staff confirmed they documented at the end of shift, and one CNA said they had never been told to document the checks at all.
  • The same January 2026 survey also cited the center over the condition of the building, because 'the walls, ceilings, and carpets' on both resident halls were not clean and in good repair - dark stained and frayed carpet, a peeling brown-stained ceiling from a burst sprinkler, and a missing air vent cover with exposed duct - and because one resident's room had no baseboards, reportedly for at least two months.
  • The center's own accepted plan of correction for the January 2026 citation states Resident #1 'was discharged to higher level of care 1/31/26.'
  • As of the newest document in this packet (OSDH letter dated 02/20/2026), the state had accepted the center's correction plan for the January 2026 findings, with alleged substantial compliance by April 3, 2026, but had not yet completed the revisit ('We will conduct a revisit to verify that all violations have been corrected').
  • The most recent survey (01-16-2026, Event ID ISLY11) cited the center under the resident rights rule covering abuse and neglect, for failing 'to ensure adequate supervision to prevent elopement for 2 (#1 and #4) of 3 sampled residents.' Resident #1 left the building on 12/11/25 (over the courtyard fence, found about two miles away) and again on 12/22/25 (out a hall exit door, found by police about four miles away on foot). Resident #4 did not leave, but their 10/13/25 elopement risk score of 10 was never added to the staff ADL Quick Reference sheet or to their 10/27/25 service plan.
  • Three of the five surveys resulted in citations. Only the two October 2025 complaint investigations were entirely clean.
  • The July 2025 relicensure survey cited three items: food storage and sanitation (undated open food, dirty microwave, dirty mop water stored beside clean dishes, breakfast meat at 106-107 degrees), a missing 2024 annual fire marshal inspection (the most recent on file was dated 12/04/23), and meals not matching the dietitian-planned menu. These were accepted as corrected on 09/09/25 via an off-site paper revisit, not an on-site inspection.
  • The October 2024 relicensure survey cited five items: a broken steam-table burner with hall-tray food measured at 85.1, 96.6, and 99.5 degrees against a 135-degree hot-hold requirement; comprehensive assessments for five of five sampled residents completed without a resident or representative interview; hot water at 103.7 and 106.3 degrees, below the required 115, for three of four sampled resident sinks; medications not administered as ordered for two residents, including 6 missed doses of the blood thinner Eliquis and 30 missed doses each of Namenda, Remeron, and Ambien in September 2024; and inaccurate documentation of medications not given for two more residents, including missed insulin and blood-sugar checks. Several of the positives above come from complaint investigations conducted during that same survey.
  • The center's first plan of correction for the October 2024 survey was rejected by OSDH on 12/11/2024 because the completion dates fell outside 60 days; a resubmitted plan was accepted 12/12/2024. This packet contains no document verifying by revisit that the October 2024 deficiencies were actually corrected.
  • Four complaints (#OK00077353, #OK00088546, #OK00088786, #OK00088509) were investigated together in January 2026 and deficiencies were cited; OSDH did not state which individual complaints were substantiated, so all four are counted as substantiated here. The four complaints investigated alongside the October 2024 survey were each explicitly closed with no deficient practice.

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

  • 2026-01-16Complaint investigation

    Findings cited, none rising to harm

    • The community failed to ensure adequate supervision to prevent elopement for 2 (#1 and #4) of 3 sampled residents reviewed for elopement.
    • The community failed to ensure adequate Resident Rights - supervision to prevent elopement for 2 (#1 and #4) of 3 sampled residents reviewed for Abuse/Neglect elopement.
  • 2025-10-29Complaint investigation

    No deficiencies were cited

  • 2025-10-13Complaint investigation

    No deficiencies were cited

  • 2025-07-10Routine inspection

    Findings cited, none rising to harm

    • The community failed to prepare foods Consultant consistent with written planned menu prepared by a dietary consultant.
    • The community failed to ensure a fire marshal inspection was conducted annually.
    • The community failed to prepare foods consistent with written planned menu prepared by a dietary consultant.
  • 2024-10-24Complaint investigation

    Findings cited, none rising to harm

    • The community failed to maintain a steam table in good repair and hold temperature for hot hold food at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above for hall trays.
    • The community failed to maintain hot water temperatures of at least 115 degrees Fahrenheit for three (#6, 7, and #9) of four sampled residents whose sink temperatures were checked.
    • The community failed to accurately document medication not given for two (#10 and #11) of eight sampled residents whose medication administration records were reviewed.
    • The community failed to maintain a steam Storage, Preparation AND table in good repair and hold temperature for hot hold food at 135 degrees Fahrenheit Service or above for hall trays.
Earlier inspections on record (2) — not counted toward the rating
  • 2023-06-08Routine inspectionhistory

    Findings cited, none rising to harm

    • The community failed to accommodate a resident with communication deficits related to aphasia.
  • 2022-07-26Complaint 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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Paul Swales, Senior Placement Advisor at Oklahoma Senior Placement

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.

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2480 NORTH GLADE AVENUE, BETHANY, OK 73008