The Chateau

What state inspectors found

1 inspection in the last two years · 1 with findings

This 42-bed community in Lawton (25 residents at the time) was inspected once in the last two years — a combined relicensure and complaint survey in October 2025 — and the state cited five deficiencies, three of which go to controls a family cannot check for itself. The facility did not report a resident's March 2025 abuse allegation to the state, as both state rule and its own policy require; a patient care assistant hired on 05/01/25 was working with residents with no criminal background check and no offender registry check in her file, and the HR staff member confirmed neither had been done and did not know why; and one cook had no documented abuse training within 90 days of hire. The other two citations were food crumbs, plastic utensils and a whole onion under the kitchen dry-storage shelving, conditions that could attract pests (the broadest scope cited, reaching across the community as a whole), and missing or unsigned plans of accommodation (a pattern, affecting several residents) for a resident receiving insulin injections and a resident with a stage 2 pressure ulcer receiving wound care from an outside home health agency. The facility submitted a correction plan the state accepted, with a new kitchen cleaning policy and a new-hire screening checklist, and alleged compliance by December 10, 2025 — but the file contains no revisit letter confirming the fixes were verified. What surveyors saw firsthand was better: staff were observed answering call lights, passing medications, serving meals and helping residents with dressing, bathing and other daily tasks; the resident whose abuse complaint prompted the visit told the surveyor they had no complaints about abuse from staff and got help when they needed it; and no citation was issued for abuse itself, for failing to help residents with daily care, or for retaliation. Ask the administrator to show the completed background-check and abuse-training audits and the revisit results.

• During the two-day inspection, surveyors watched staff answering call lights, giving medications, serving meals, and helping residents with everyday tasks like dressing and bathing. 10-28-2025
• The resident at the center of the abuse complaint told the surveyor directly that they had no complaints about abuse from staff, and that staff helped them with daily activities whenever they needed it. 10-28-2025
• None of the five deficiencies cited in this survey was for abuse of a resident, for failing to help residents with daily care, or for retaliation against residents who spoke up. 10-28-2025
• Surveyors reviewed a wide range of records during the visit, including physician orders, care plans, assessments, incident reports, resident council minutes, and grievances, and also interviewed residents about whether they felt safe and knew how to file a grievance. 10-28-2025

Summarized from Oklahoma State Department of Health survey documents. Inspections are a snapshot of specific days and sample a small number of residents.