Lawton Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Location & what’s nearby

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

69.7% of the Medicare patients who left this home got back to the community and stayed there for at least 31 days — CMS rates that better than the national rate. This is CMS’s risk-adjusted rate over 311 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 54.7% of this home’s Medicare short-stay residents left it at or above the ability to care for themselves and move around that CMS predicted for them, across 117 stays in Oct 2024–Sep 2025. The median of the 11,061 homes CMS publishes this for is 56.6%. Read it beside the getting-home figure, not instead of it: unlike the two measures above, CMS makes no better-or-worse call on this one and publishes no confidence interval for it, so this is a comparison and not a verdict — but it is the short-stay measure that separates homes most, and the one to ask about.

Therapy staffing: this home’s payroll records show 0.59 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 87% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 7% of this home’s weekday level — it runs some therapy at the weekend, at a lower level than on weekdays. The median home that reports therapy runs 13% — weekday-focused therapy is the industry norm, not a shortfall. But recovery does not pause on a Saturday: ask what the weekend actually looks like here.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 68 beds and averages 55.6 residents a day — about 82% occupied, or roughly 12 beds typically open. It usually has some room. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 4.36 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 1.37 is at or above the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.20 is below the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 3.68 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 4.63 on weekdays — 20% thinner on weekends — a notable drop. RN hours go from 1.38 to 1.34 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 40% is about the same as the national median of 45%.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are fewer than at the previous inspection — improving. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

19 citations, most serious first. The 10 most serious are shown; the remaining 9 are one tap away and print in full.

• Potential for harm · D2026-04-17 · tag F0645 — isolated
  PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on interview, and record review, the facility failed to obtain required screening documents to determine whether one of two sampled residents (Resident 47) required active treatment or other care services appropriate for mental health condition when Resident 47 had no Level II Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR - a federal requirement that aims to confirm presence of mental illness and/or intellectual disabilities, to assess applicant's need for nursing facility service, and to assess whether the applicant requires specialized services or specialized rehabilitative services) evaluation in the presence of schizophrenia (a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves) diagnosis.This failure had the potential for facility admitting Resident 47 to incorrect care setting and implementing incorrect care services that did not meet the resident's needs.Resident 47 was admitted on [DATE] with diagnoses that included Type 2 diabetes (a chronic disease…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Fcited before2024-11-01 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — widespread
  Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview and record review, the facility failed to store foods and maintain kitchen utensils in a sanitary manner. When: 1. An opened Thousand Island dressing container was found undated, and 2. A drawer with kitchen utensils was found to have bread crumbs on the floor of the drawer. These deficient practices will potentially have negative ill effect to the residents' health outcome, and a continous practice of cross contamination of kitchen utensils to food served to all residents in the facility. FINDINGS: 1. During an initial tour of the kitchen on 10/28/24 at 10:15 a.m., with the Dietary Manager (DM), and the Registered Dietitian (RD), an opened original plastic container of Thousand Island dressing with no open date was found on the top shelf of the produce refrigerator. It is about 1/3 full with spilled, dried and sticky yellowish/orangey dressing spill on the lid to the neck and shoulder of the container. Observed the DM removed the Thousand Island dresssing container from the refrigerator and looked for the label when the container was opened. The DM…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2024-11-01 · tag F0755 — failed to provide safe pharmacy services — pattern
  Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure controlled medications (medications that can be easily abused and are under strict government control) were fully accounted for when they were signed out of the Controlled Drug Record (CDR, an inventory or count sheet) but not documented on the medication administration record (MAR) for three out of five residents (Residents 12, 19, and 202); and a controlled medication for a resident (Resident 204) was destroyed without a witness' signature as per facility policy and procedure. The failures had the potential for medication errors and controlled drug abuse or diversion (when healthcare providers obtain or use prescription medicines illegally). Findings: 1. During an interview on 10/29/24 at 2:27 p.m., with the ADON (Assistant Director of Nursing) about as needed medications, she explained that when the resident requested a medication, the nurse assesses the resident, reviews the physician's order, obtains the medication from the med cart, administers it to the resident, documents it on the MAR & the…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2024-11-01 · tag F0912 — pattern
  Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to provide the required square footage per resident in multiple bedrooms for 17 out of 28 rooms (Rooms 101, 102,103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 115, 126, 127, 131, 132, 134, 136 and 139). This failure had the potential for inadequate usable space for the provision of residents' care and may impact their quality of life. Findings: Review of the facility's request for a waiver dated 3/2/24, indicated the following bedrooms failed to meet the requirement of 80 square feet per resident. Room Number Number of Beds in Room Square Feet Per Resident Square Feet Total 101 2 78.75 157.5 102 3 75 225 103 3 75 225 104 2 78.75 157.5 105 2 78.75 157.5 106 3 75 225 107 3 75 225 108 2 78.75 157.5 111 3 75 225 115 3 75 225 126 2 78.75 157.5 127 2 78.75 157.5 131 2 78.75 157.5 132 3 75 225 134 2 78.75 157.5 136 3 75 225 139 2 78.75 157.5 During random observations and interviews of residents that occupied the above-mentioned rooms, during the survey, the residents expressed no concerns about quality of life, quality of care…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Environmental Deficiencies · Waiver has been granted
• Potential for harm · D2024-11-01 · tag F0759 — failed to keep medication error rate low — isolated
  Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility had a medication error rate of 7.69% when two medication errors occurred out of 26 opportunities during the medication administration for one out of six residents (Resident 18). The failures resulted in the nursing staff not following the facility's policy and procedures (P&P) and had the potential for the resident not receiving full therapeutic effects or causing side effects for the residents. Findings: 1. During the medication administration observation on 10/28/24 at 4:35 p.m., Registered Nurse 1 (RN1) was observed preparing and administering 3 medications to Resident 18: metformin (medication for diabetes) 500 milligrams (mg, unit of measurement) 1 tablet, calcium (a supplement) 500 mg 1 tablet, and brimonidine ophthalmic solution (medication for glaucoma) 0.15%. Resident was sitting up in her wheelchair. RN1 did not have the resident tilt her head back. With the resident's head/face looking straight ahead, RN1 instilled 1 drop of brimonidine…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2024-11-01 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — isolated
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview and record review, the facility failed to provide a safe and sanitary environment when an unlabeled basin containing exposed personal care items were kept on an overbed table in between the beds of Resident 6 and Resident 15. This failure had the potential to result in cross contamination and spread of infection in the facility. Findings: During an observation on 10/28/24 at 9:56 AM, an emesis basin (a shallow container used to catch fluids or debris from a patient) containing a tube of toothpaste, an exposed toothbrush, a packaged toothbrush, and a deodorant was found on an overbed table in between the beds of Resident 6 and Resident 15. During further observation on 10/28/24 at 10:48 AM, the kidney basin containing the aforementioned items was still on the overbed table in between the beds of Resident 6 and Resident 15. During a concurrent observation and interview on 10/28/24 at 10:52 AM, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 1 stated, Not sure, when asked who the personal care items belong to. CNA 1 added, Not supposed to be there. I was going to…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Infection Control Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2023-08-18 · tag F0689 — failed to keep residents free of avoidable accidents; supervise adequately — isolated
  Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview and record review the facility failed to ensure residents received adequate supervision to prevent unauthorized departure from the facility of one sampled resident (Resident 1) when, there was no front desk staff to closely monitor individuals coming in and out of the front door on 7/10/23, evening shift. This deficient practice resulted in Resident 1's unauthorized departure from the facility on 7/10/23. Resident 1 showed up in the emergency room of a nearby Acute Care hospital on 7/10/23 and was returned to the facility the following day, 7/11/23. Elopement as defined in the facility policy is the occurrence of a resident leaving the premises or a safe area without authorization (i.e. an order for discharge or leave of absence) and/or any necessary supervision to do so. Findings: Review of the admission Record dated 8/1/23 indicated Resident 1 was originally admitted to the facility on [DATE]. Review of the History & Physical dated 4/24/23 indicated, Resident was admitted to the…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2023-03-24 · tag F0755 — failed to provide safe pharmacy services — pattern
  Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview, and record review, on March 20, 2023, the facility failed to ensure that the residents in both the South side and the North side receive their prescribed medications in a timely manner, and the wasted medication (refused med) was disposed of safely according to professional standards when . 1. RN1 observed administering the scheduled 9:00 AM medication on the South side on 3/20/23 between 10:20 AM to 12:20 PM to three of his 27 residents. 2. RN2 observed administering the scheduled 9:00 AM medication on the North side on 3/20/23 at 11:30 AM to two of her 29 residents. 3. RN1 observed discarding (disposing) the resident's refused medication in a regular uncovered garbage bin on the side of the medication cart instead of discarding the pill in the incinerator. The facility's failure to administer medications to 2 of 2 units timely, and disposing of refused medication according to the standard of practices' policy and procedure had the potential to affect the residents negatively.…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2023-03-24 · tag F0761 — failed to label and store drugs safely — pattern
  Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review on 3/22/23 in the medication room, the facility failed to ensure that the biologicals were labeled and stored according to acceptable professional standards when . 1. Two quality control solutions (high and low) were found on the shelf opened but not dated. 2. A refrigerator storing laboratory (stool) specimen was found in the clean medication storage room. Note: Cross referenced in F880, Infection Control. 3. An opened package of unused, Lidocaine Patch was found in Resident 17's room on 3/20/23. This deficient practices have the potential to: 1. Result in inaccuracies in blood sugar monitoring, 2. Contaminate drugs, biologicals and nutritional supplements, 3. Result in overdosage to the resident or diversion of this drug (illegal use of drugs). Findings: 1. During medication storage observation on 3/22/23 at 9:35 AM the two bottles of quality control solutions for glucometer were found taped together with an ivory paper tape, on one of the shelves. One bottle with yellow cap/cover (Low control solution), one bottle with blue…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2023-03-24 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — pattern
  Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with professional standards for food service safety when: 1. There was no hands-free trash bin for disposal of used paper towels after handwashing in the kitchen. 2. Unlabeled, undated, and expired food items stored in the kitchen were available for resident consumption. 3. A cart holding two opened jugs of cooking oil was lined with parchment paper soaked in oil. The base and legs of the cart was covered with grimy, gray-colored, fuzzy substance. 4. An exposed and uncovered metal scoop with yellow-colored powdery substance was placed on top of a container of food seasoning. 5. A plastic bottle containing vinegar had a broken plastic cap with an irregular sized hole with jagged, sharp edges. This deficient practice may put the residents who receive food from the facility kitchen at risk for food borne illnesses, for injury, and may affect the appetite of the residents due to loss of potency and flavor of expired food seasonings/flavoring. Findings: 1.…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

“Cited before” means this same F-tag appears on at least one other survey date in the record we hold — counting complaint investigations as well as standard surveys, with no time limit. It is our own read of the data, not CMS’s: CMS uses repeat deficiency as a formal term tied to consecutive standard surveys, and that is a narrower test than this one. A tag marked here may or may not meet it.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Part of a chain

This home belongs to GENERATIONS HEALTHCARE — 27 facilities. Here is how its ratings compare with the chain’s average across all its homes: See the whole chain — ratings, flags, fines and finances →

A home rated well below its chain’s average can signal local problems; a chain with a low average across the board is a bigger pattern worth researching. CMS chain data under-reports private-equity and REIT ownership, so treat this as a floor, not the full picture.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 35 rows in the source record cover these 16 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted. The source lists no ownership percentage for any of them — PECOS records a share only for equity interests, not for board or management roles.

5 organizational owners listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

Follow the money — this home’s finances

Where a nursing home’s revenue comes from and where it goes — including money paid to companies under the same ownership. Most consumer sites never show this; we reproduce it straight from the Medicare cost report.

This home reported $2.9M paid to related parties — landlords or management companies under common ownership — equal to about 23% of its total expenses. Money routed to affiliated companies can leave a home’s own books looking lean while owners still profit; it is the mechanism regulators watch most closely in private-equity and REIT deals.

Source: CMS Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS), Medicare cost report Form CMS-2540 · fiscal year 2023. Facilities self-file these reports; figures are unaudited and a year or two behind. A home with no Medicare cost report on file shows no figures here.

Cost & finances

Straight from this home’s Medicare cost report (CMS, FY2023). These are its operating economics — what it costs to run per resident-day and what it collects on average across Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay — not a private-pay quote. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on payer and room type, so ask the facility directly; a higher operating cost can reflect richer staffing or a sicker population. The cost-of-care planner shows regional benchmarks by care type.

What families pay in CA