Lifespring Home Care of Mcalester

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2024. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

Each deficiency, as cited

Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.

• Medicare-certified home health agency since Jun 13, 2012.
• Ownership: proprietary (for profit).
• No condition-level: what this means deficiency on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
• 0 deficiencies cited in the last three years came from inspections that included a complaint investigation.

• Offers nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social services and home health aide services.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for home health agencies.

• Lifespring Home Care and Hospice, LLC owns 100% directly since Nov 12, 2021.
• 4 owners or officers are people: Karen E Vahlberg (corporate officer); Karen E Vahlberg (managing employee (on the payroll)); Betty Ohara (managing employee (on the payroll)); Douglas Clyde Harrison (managing employee (on the payroll)).
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• CMS rates its quality of patient care 4.5 of 5.
• CMS gives no patient survey rating: what this means: “Fewer than 70 patients completed the survey.”
• CMS compares it with the national rate: discharged to the community, the same; potentially preventable hospital stays, worse; potentially preventable readmissions after discharge, the same.

• Of the 32 agencies CMS’s data show serving patients in ZIP code 74501, where this agency’s office is, 31 have a quality of patient care rating; the middle one is 3 of 5, and this one is rated 4.5 of 5.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for home health agencies, so none are shown.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• QCOR says some of its home health reports are accurate or available only through May 19, 2021, because of a systems migration.
• Many home health agencies are inspected by a private accrediting organisation instead of the state, and QCOR’s home health file doesn’t appear to include those inspections: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Care Agencies (6jpm-sxkc).

  Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Patient Survey (ccn4-8vby).

  Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR home health inspection reports (HHA_2567s_2018_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency All Owners (fc009b2d-7846-44b1-b4a1-692f0c143879).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health Agency Enrollments (15f64ab4-3172-4a27-b589-ebd67a6d28aa).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Home Health ZIP Codes (m5eg-upu5).

  Released Oct 21, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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