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301 WEST WADE, EL RENO, OK 73036
Monthly Cost
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Licensed Beds
74
County
CANADIAN
Care Type
Assisted Living & Memory Care
Saint Katharine Drexel Retirement Center in El Reno is an assisted living community sponsored by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, with 65 individual rooms, 16 of which are in a specialized care unit. Its faith-based social model emphasizes assistance over dependence: "Our role is not to 'do for,' but to 'assist with' each resident's identified needs," prioritizing "individualized care of needs as well as activities and programs for groups." Personalized care plans are developed through team collaboration involving residents, families, and staff, with 24-hour trained staff access. The community promotes "maintenance free living" with no buy-in fees or endowments, month-to-month leasing, and a flexible 30-day notice so residents maintain financial control.
Care includes bathing, dressing, and grooming assistance, medication management, and health-status reviews, with three daily restaurant-style meals plus snacks, weekly laundry and housekeeping, and on-site beauty and barber services. Residents enjoy social, educational, spiritual, recreational, and exercise programs, planned monthly outings, and free local transportation to medical appointments plus scheduled group outings for shopping, dining, and recreation. Common spaces include a library with a fireplace, a family kitchen and dining area, billiards, a piano, an exercise area, and enclosed landscaped courtyards. Private apartments come in four floor plans (Faith, Hope, Love, Wisdom) with kitchenettes, private bathrooms with grab bars, and individually controlled HVAC.
Care levels, room types and features at St Katharine Drexel Retirement Center. 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 no deficiencies cited
Both Oklahoma State Department of Health inspections of St Katharine Drexel in the last two years ended with no deficiencies cited — including the full relicensure survey in November 2025, which also folded in two complaint investigations. During an earlier unannounced visit prompted by a complaint about residents being isolated, the surveyor toured the building and found residents clean, appropriately dressed and free of odors, watched staff helping residents with daily care, and specifically noted staff treating residents with dignity and respect. That complaint did not result in a single citation. Nothing in the state's records from this period shows a cited problem.
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
No deficiencies were cited
No deficiencies were cited
No deficiencies were cited
No deficiencies were cited
No deficiencies were cited
Findings cited, none rising to harm
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 St Katharine Drexel Retirement Center — at no cost to your family.
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301 WEST WADE, EL RENO, OK 73036