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1224 EAST TAMARACK ROAD, ALTUS, OK 73521
Monthly Cost
Starting at $3,110/mo
Licensed Beds
68
County
JACKSON
Care Type
Assisted Living
Starting price — actual cost depends on care level and room type. Call Paul for a personalized quote at no cost to your family.
Tamarack Assisted Living Center in Altus provides supportive living for seniors needing help with daily activities while emphasizing independence through tailored assistance plans, in a setting that feels "just like home" within a "friendly, active community." Care is anchored by 24-hour certified staff who "keep your health and wellness at the forefront of everything we do" and view their work as "more than a job. It's our calling." Each resident is assessed prior to move-in and at regular intervals, with comprehensive care plans developed alongside physicians and home care providers.
Daily life includes three meals a day plus snacks, weekly housekeeping and laundry, transportation to medical and dental appointments, shopping, errands, and social events, and monthly, weekly, and daily activities with scheduled group trips and an active resident council. Private apartments come in multiple floor plans, and all-inclusive monthly rent covers meals, utilities, cable, internet, laundry, housekeeping, and activities. The community features a main living room, dining rooms, sitting areas with internet access, an activity room, covered resident parking, a state-of-the-art wireless call system in every unit, 24-hour security surveillance, and generator backup for power outages.
Care levels, room types and features at Tamarack 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 findings
Tamarack Retirement Center was inspected twice in this period, and both visits ended with a citation - so this is not a spotless record. In July 2025 the finding was in the kitchen: several food items were unlabeled or undated and a dietary worker was not wearing a hair net. In October 2025, after a complaint alleging abuse, injuries of unknown origin and inadequate care, inspectors watched residents at meals, in activities and during personal care and saw staff answering call lights and helping with daily tasks; the only thing they cited was the absence of a written "plan of accommodation" for one resident who needed two staff members for transfers - help staff were observed providing, though the facility had no plan-of-accommodation policy at all and the clinical nurse director did not know what the plan was for. The center corrected both findings, and the state determined it was back in substantial compliance in September 2025 and again in December 2025; both determinations were made by offsite/paper review rather than a return visit to the building.
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
Findings cited, none rising to harm
Findings cited, none rising to harm
Findings cited, none rising to harm
No deficiencies were cited
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 Tamarack Retirement Center — at no cost to your family.
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1224 EAST TAMARACK ROAD, ALTUS, OK 73521