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8555 SOUTH LEWIS AVENUE, TULSA, OK 74137
Monthly Cost
Starting at $4,195/mo
Licensed Beds
150
County
TULSA
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.
University Village Retirement Community has been a premier Tulsa senior living option since 1974, offering a full continuum that spans independent-living cottages and apartments, 55+ apartments, assisted living, and skilled nursing and rehabilitation. The community's guiding philosophy is "Live well. Be well.," encouraging residents to maintain a high quality of life through healthy activities, fitness programs, and nutritious dining even as their needs evolve.
Daily life is organized around a multidimensional wellness lifestyle that addresses social, occupational, emotional, physical, intellectual, environmental, and spiritual well-being, with diverse programming that includes games, exercise classes, dining outings, and volunteer opportunities. The community's Health Center supports residents who need assisted living or rehabilitation, with a stated goal of helping residents remain independent longer.
Care levels, room types and features at University Village Retirement Community. 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 · 1 with no deficiencies cited · 1 with findings
State inspectors visited University Village twice in this period. In February 2025 they investigated two complaints alleging verbal, physical, psychosocial and sexual abuse; they observed residents with staff throughout the visit, interviewed residents and staff, reviewed records and resident council minutes, and cited no deficiencies. The April 2025 licensing survey cited one item: six opened food containers in one of four kitchen refrigerators and the warming cabinet had no open/use-by date. The kitchen team was retrained and a May 2025 revisit confirmed the community was back in substantial compliance.
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
No deficiencies were cited
No deficiencies were cited
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.
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 University Village Retirement Community — at no cost to your family.
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8555 SOUTH LEWIS AVENUE, TULSA, OK 74137