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IRIS MEMORY CARE OF NW OKLAHOMA CITY
Memory Care

Iris Memory Care Of Nw Oklahoma City

12000 NORTH MACARTHUR BLVD, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73162

Monthly Cost

$5,575 – $7,500/mo

Licensed Beds

60

County

OKLAHOMA

Care Type

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

Iris Memory Care of NW Oklahoma City is a memory care community at 12000 N MacArthur Blvd in Oklahoma City, providing Alzheimer's and dementia care in a home-like assisted living setting. The community is built as three separate buildings, each accommodating a maximum of 18 residents, emphasizing small, intimate environments where individuals with memory loss can thrive; from the moment you walk through the front door it is meant to feel like a single-family home complete with familiar sights, soothing sounds, and homey aromas. Respite, short-term, and long-term stays are offered.

Certified care staff are on-site 24 hours a day with an on-site nurse, and the community keeps higher staff-to-resident ratios than typical assisted living. Care includes medication management, personal assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming, incontinence care, mobility and transfer assistance, and three chef-prepared, dietitian-approved meals daily, with kitchen and dining areas designed to encourage community engagement and family participation at meals. Amenities include a full-service salon, game and activity room, comfortable living rooms, covered porches, courtyards, and a secured walking path, all supported by life-safety systems, an emergency generator, and access control.

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Community Care and Amenities

Care levels, room types and features at Iris Memory Care Of Nw Oklahoma City. 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.

  • Memory Care
  • Respite/Short-Term
  • Private Suite
  • On-Site Nursing
  • Social Activities
  • Housekeeping & Laundry
  • Beauty Salon
  • Outdoor Courtyard
  • Transportation
  • 24-Hour Staff
  • Medication Management
  • Chef-Prepared Meals
  • Respite / Short-Term Stays
  • Incontinence Care
  • Diabetic Care
  • 24-hour certified care staff
  • On-site nurse
  • Personal assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming
  • Mobility and transfer assistance
  • Three chef-prepared, dietitian-approved meals daily
  • Personalized daily activity programming
  • Housekeeping and laundry
  • Scheduled transportation (case-by-case)
  • Emotional and behavioral management
  • Full-service salon
  • Game and activity room
  • Covered porches and courtyards
  • Secured walking path
  • Memory Care by Design with three separate buildings, max 18 residents each
  • Higher-than-typical staff-to-resident ratios
  • Pet therapy
  • Family-style communal dining
  • Emergency generator and access control
  • Respite, short- and long-term stays

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 no deficiencies cited

Iris Memory Care of NW Oklahoma City had one state inspection in the past two years — a full relicensure survey in March 2025 that also investigated two complaints — and it ended with no deficiencies cited. Surveyors specifically looked into allegations of chemical restraint, an unsanitary building, and residents not receiving help with personal care, and none of the three held up: they found behavior medications were prescribed and monitored by specialists and used sparingly, described the community as clean and homelike, and observed residents groomed, dressed appropriately and in clean clothing. Because only one survey falls in this window, this is a smaller record than some communities have.

  • The state's full relicensure survey in March 2025, which also included two complaint investigations, ended with no deficiencies cited. 03-06-2025
  • An allegation that residents were being chemically restrained was investigated and not borne out; the surveyor found medications for aggression were prescribed and monitored by specialists and given only infrequently as a last resort. 03-06-2025
  • An allegation about an unsanitary building was not supported — the surveyor described the community as clean and homelike on a routine basis. 03-06-2025
  • A complaint that dependent residents were not getting help with personal care was not supported; the surveyor found residents groomed, appropriately dressed and free of soiled garments. 03-06-2025

What the state also noted

  • No deficiencies were cited, but this reflects a single survey; there is less inspection history here than at communities surveyed more often.
  • One investigative-report page in this facility's packet is headed with a different facility's name and license number (Morada Midwest City, AL5505) and appears to have been mis-filed by the state's scanning; its findings about staffing were not credited to Iris in this summary.
  • The second investigative report page has blank facility identification fields, so its allegations are matched to this facility by date and by the state form rather than by an explicit facility name.

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

  • 2025-03-06Complaint investigation

    No deficiencies were cited

Earlier inspections on record (2) — not counted toward the rating
  • 2023-06-13Routine inspectionhistory

    No deficiencies were cited

  • 2019-11-26Complaint investigationhistory

    Findings cited, none rising to harm

    • The community failed to ensure hot water temperatures did not exceed 115 degrees Farenheit for 3(#1, #4, and #6) of 6 sampled residents who had access to hot water in their bathrooms.
    • The community failed to ensure the medications were reviewed monthly by a registered nurse for 7 (#1 through #3 and #5 through #8) of sampled residents who were administered physician ordered medications.
    • The community failed to ensure hot water temperatures did not exceed 115°F (degrees Fahrenheit) for 3 (#1, 4, and #6) of 6 sampled , residents who had access to hot water in their bathrooms.

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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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.

  • 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.
  • Whether they have a room, and would take your loved one. I’ll find out what’s actually open right now and whether they’d genuinely accept this level of care, before you spend a morning touring.
  • How it compares to the others nearby. I hold the same state record for every community in the metro. Their sales office will never tell you the place four miles away has a cleaner history.
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.
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.

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.

Your next step

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12000 NORTH MACARTHUR BLVD, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73162