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1500 EAST VAN BUREN, MCALESTER, OK 74501
Monthly Cost
Starting at $3,610/mo
Licensed Beds
60
County
PITTSBURG
Care Type
Assisted Living & 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.
Van Buren House is an assisted living community in McAlester operated by McAlester Regional Health Center, offering one- and two-bedroom unfurnished apartments with individualized care. Levels of service are determined and customized for each resident, with staff monitoring progress and adjusting services as needs change, and clinical staff available around the clock backed by a regional health system.
Daily life includes three meals a day with specialized diets available, weekly housekeeping and laundry, and apartment maintenance, all within a pet-friendly community. Residents enjoy recreational and social activities, an on-site beauty and barber shop, a computer lab with internet access, concierge services, scheduled local transportation, and an emergency call system, with four levels of assistance available to match each resident's needs.
Care levels, room types and features at Van Buren House Assisted Living. 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.
1 inspection in the last two years · 1 with no deficiencies cited
Oklahoma State Department of Health inspectors surveyed Van Buren House Assisted Living on October 22, 2025 and cited no deficiencies. A clean relicensure survey at a community of this size, with 46 residents in the building at the time of the visit, means the state found nothing out of compliance. This is the only inspection in the records for the past two years and the report is brief, so it confirms compliance without describing daily care.
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
On record; the state has not made this document viewable
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 Van Buren House Assisted Living — at no cost to your family.
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1500 EAST VAN BUREN, MCALESTER, OK 74501