Tulsa Senior AdvisorWhere can I look up an Oklahoma facility's inspections?
Every OSDH-licensed assisted living center, residential care home, adult day care center and nursing home has a public file on the state's Long Term Care survey site, surveys.health.ok.gov, searchable by name, county, city or ZIP code.
The file lists documents by type and date: survey documents (routine inspections and complaint investigations), license documents, Alzheimer's/dementia special care disclosures, correspondence and any court or administrative orders. Most documents open as scanned PDFs. The Oklahoma Attorney General's ombudsman page also points families to this public file.
What should I read first in a facility's public file?
Read the newest survey document first, then the two before it, looking for repeat findings in the same area of care, such as medication errors, falls or staffing.
A single citation that was corrected quickly tells you less than the same problem cited on three visits in a row. Check the exit date on each survey against the 15-month maximum that OAC 310:663-25-1 sets for unannounced assisted living inspections; across the Tulsa-area roster the median gap between the newest survey document and today is 12 months.
How do I read a nursing home's record in Oklahoma?
For certified nursing homes, read CMS Care Compare alongside the OSDH file: Care Compare gives star ratings, the latest standard inspection date, deficiency counts, staffing hours, turnover and fines, while the OSDH file holds the underlying survey documents.
OSDH lists 55 open nursing homes in Tulsa, Wagoner, Rogers, Creek, Osage and Okmulgee counties with 6,081 licensed beds; CMS rates 53 of them, 16 with four or five stars overall (Care Compare data as of October 1, 2026). Our nursing home pages reproduce CMS's figures exactly, with the data date, and compare each home's staffing and deficiencies with the Tulsa-area median.
What does a survey document count tell me?
It tells you how often OSDH closed out a visit, but not why: survey documents cover routine inspections, follow-up visits and complaint investigations alike, so a higher count can reflect more complaints, more follow-ups, or simply a larger building.
Use it as a prompt. If a 40-bed center has twice as many survey documents in three years as similar centers nearby, open them and see whether they are complaint investigations. Across Tulsa-area assisted living centers the median is 2 survey documents dated in the last three years.
What if a facility's file is missing something?
Ask the facility directly; centers should be able to produce their latest statement of deficiencies, plan of correction and, for dementia units, the current ODH Form 613 disclosure, and OSDH's Long Term Care Service can be reached at (405) 426-8200.
Scanning lags the actual paperwork, and new centers have no survey documents until their first full inspection. A gap is a question, not an accusation.
At a glance
| The OSDH public file shows | The OSDH public file does not show | |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Survey documents by exit date | A star rating for assisted living |
| Dementia care | Filed special care disclosures | Whether a unit is full |
| Enforcement | Court and administrative orders | Prices or staffing schedules |
Sources include the Oklahoma Administrative Code (chapters 310:663, 310:680, 310:673, 310:675 and 310:605), OSDH, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Oklahoma Human Services, the Oklahoma Attorney General, CareScout, CMS and the VA, as cited above; see our editorial standards.
