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Home › MA › Ashland › Pincushion Hill Montessori School
Ashland MA 01721 · License #P-271034 · Center · Center-Based Care
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Children's records and checklist
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Playground Safety - Fallzones
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Evacuation procedures posted at each exit; Exit signs and diagrams as required
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Documentation of medication administration; Current consent for medications
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Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP)
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Medication Storage; Medication Container/Label
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Current consent for administered medications
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Licensors reviewed 3 of the children's records. All of these had out of date physicals, including out of date lead testing, and 2 of these records also had release forms that were all expired. Please review all of the children's records and ensure all paperwork is complete and up to date.
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Violation
There are 2 pieces of outdoor play equipment that do not have an adequate fallzone. These are the log cabin in the toddler playground, and the climbing tunnel in the preschool playground. Both of these structures are too close to the fencing at the edge of the playgrounds, as they are less than 6 ft away. These structures will need to either be moved away from the fences so that they are at least 6 ft away, or access to the climbing areas of the structures that are closest to the fences will need to be made inaccessible.
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Violation
Please ensure all exits from the classrooms have the evacuation procedures and an exit map posted together. In the downstairs preschool room, the exit map is posted on one of the inner doors and needs to be moved to the door that exits to the outside. In the 1st floor preschool room, neither exit has the evacuation information posted, and the exit map is only posted at 1 of the exits. In the toddler room, there is no exit map at 1 of the exits.
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Violation
There was 1 child who is prescribed an [REDSCTED]. The medication consent form for the [REDACTED] was expired and the program did not have a form to administer the [REDACTED] Please review all children's records who have medications and ensure these forms are all up to date.
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There is 1 child who has allergies and is prescribed an [REDACTED]and their IHCP is expired. Please review all children's records and ensure all IHCP's are up to date.
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Violation
In the 1st floor preschool room, there was an [REDACTED] that was expired, along with a bottle of [REDACTED].
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Violation
There are multiple children in the program who are prescribed emergency medications. There was 1 child who had an expired medication consent form for their [REDACTED] and no medication consent form for their [REDACTED]
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Children's Records
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Current consent for administered medications
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Four children's records were randomly selected for review and the following was learned: 1) Child B did not have evidence of a current transportation form or a current physical exam on record as required.
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Violation
1) Child A had an [REDACTED] that expired October 2025 and the prescription label on the box expired 8/21/2025. 2) Child C had an allergy action plan that listed [REDACTED]" as one of their life saving medications, however the program did not have evidence of "Benadryl" on site for that child as required.
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