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IRIS MEMORY CARE OF TULSA
Memory Care

Iris Memory Care Of Tulsa

9494 EAST 101ST STREET SOUTH, TULSA, OK 74133

Monthly Cost

$2,900 – $5,748/mo

Licensed Beds

57

County

TULSA

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 Tulsa is a memory care community at 9494 E 101st St in Tulsa, specializing in Alzheimer's and dementia care within a home-like assisted living environment. The community is built as three separate buildings, each designed for a maximum of 18 residents, emphasizing small, intimate settings with an open floor plan for easy navigation. Resident spaces feature hardwood-like flooring and calming wall colors, with comfortable living rooms, covered porches, and courtyard spaces.

Certified care staff are available around the clock with an on-site nurse, and the community maintains higher staff-to-resident ratios than typical assisted living. Services include medication management, personal assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming, incontinence care, mobility and transfer assistance, three chef-prepared and dietitian-approved meals served family-style, plus housekeeping and laundry. Enrichment activities span art, music, gardening, field trips, and spiritual support, and amenities include a full-service salon, a game and activity room, a secured walking path, and a pet therapy program, all within a life-safety-equipped, access-controlled environment.

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Community Care and Amenities

Care levels, room types and features at Iris Memory Care Of Tulsa. 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 (family-style)
  • Personalized daily activity programming
  • Housekeeping and laundry
  • Scheduled transportation (case-by-case)
  • Emotional and behavioral management
  • Full-service salon
  • Game and activity room
  • Courtyards and covered porches
  • Secured walking path
  • Memory Care by Design with three separate buildings, max 18 residents each
  • Open floor plan for easy navigation
  • Pet therapy program
  • Family-style communal dining
  • Enrichment: art, music, gardening, field trips, spiritual support
  • Higher-than-typical staff-to-resident ratios

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 Tulsa's most recent state inspection, in April 2025, was a full relicensure survey combined with a complaint investigation, and it ended with no deficiencies cited. The complaint alleged there were not enough staff to meet residents' needs; inspectors arrived unannounced, watched staff with residents at meals, during activities, and during personal care, reviewed schedules and time sheets, and interviewed residents, staff, and family representatives before concluding staff could meet residents' needs. That is a meaningful result, because the state looked directly at the concern a family had raised and did not sustain it. Only one survey falls within the last 24 months, so this is a single point in time rather than a long track record.

  • The state's April 2025 inspection, which combined a full licensing review with a complaint investigation, ended with no deficiencies cited. 04-02-2025
  • Someone had complained that there were not enough staff to meet residents' needs. The state investigated that specific concern and did not sustain it. 04-02-2025
  • During an unannounced visit, the surveyor watched staff with residents at meals, during activities, and during personal care, and found residents' needs were being met. 04-02-2025
  • Inspectors went beyond watching — they checked work schedules and time sheets and talked with residents, employees, and family representatives, and concluded staff could meet residents' needs. 04-02-2025
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  • The investigation began without warning to the community, so what the surveyor saw was an ordinary day, not a prepared one. 04-02-2025

What the state also noted

  • Only one survey falls within the 24-month review window, so this reflects a single inspection rather than a pattern over time.
  • The documents describe staffing and daily care but do not address other areas such as medication administration, infection control, or the physical environment, so nothing can be said about those.
  • Some sentences in the report are garbled by scanning, though the conclusion that no deficiencies were cited is stated clearly in two separate places.

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

  • 2025-04-02Complaint investigation

    No deficiencies were cited

Earlier inspections on record (2) — not counted toward the rating
  • 2023-10-13Complaint investigationhistory

    No deficiencies were cited

  • 2019-12-08Complaint 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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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

Oklahoma Senior Placement can get you current availability, the real monthly price, and a tour at Iris Memory Care Of Tulsa — at no cost to your family.

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9494 EAST 101ST STREET SOUTH, TULSA, OK 74133