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Home › MA › Brookline › Friends Childcare, Inc.
Brookline MA 02445 · License #P-177376 · Center · Center-Based Care
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Staff Records
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Children's records and checklist
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Record of injuries, behavior incidents, accidents, emergencies
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Feeding schedule for each infant/toddler; Infants held while fed from bottle
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Staff:child ratios and groupings
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Staff monitor environment for hazards-Hazardous items not accessible to children
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1. One staff file did not have documentation of a current physical. 2. One staff file did not have documentation of their MMR's. 3. One staff file did not have a current PQ Registry.
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1. One child's developmental history form was not completed. 2. One child's file did not have documentation of a lead screening.
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Injury reports were not documented on an injury log.
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An infant was not held while drinking their bottle. They were laying on the boppy pillow.
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The staff/child ratio was not consistently maintained in the Infant/Toddler Classroom while in the Gross Motor room as a teacher kept leaving the room to get children's water bottles.
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The cabinet under the sink in the pre-school bathroom, which contained cleaning materials, was not locked.
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Children's Records
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Staff Records
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Staff BRC - R Sep 2025
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BRCs on all potential employees - R Sep 2025
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Attendance Recording and Group Sizes/Ratios
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One child's file did not have a current physical.
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1. Two staff files did not have an application/resume. 2. Two staff files did not have a date of interview. 3. Two staff files did not have verification of references documented. 4. One staff file did not have a current physical. 5. Two staff files did not have documentation of their MMR's. 6. One staff file did not have a program orientation. 7. Two staff files did not have a current PQ Registry. 8. One staff file did not have an EEC Essentials training certificate.
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Violation
The program allowed a staff member to begin working in the program prior to being found with a provisionally approved BRC.
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1. The attendance in the Toddler Yellow Classroom was not accurate. 2. Children from the Infant/Toddler were freely going between their classroom and the Infant Classroom and staff members did not move the children.
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Attendance Recording and Group Sizes/Ratios
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The attendance was not accurate in the Infant Classroom.
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1.There was sunscreen within reach of the children in the pre-school classroom. 2. The hole puncher, adult scissors and stapler were within reach of the children in the pre-school classroom.
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1. A teacher helped wash a child's hands after diapering. They were wearing the same gloves they had on when changing them. 2. The staff member did not change gloves between each child and did not wash their hands.
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Individual health care plans did not have all required information documented.
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Staff Records - R Apr 2025
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Children's Records - R Apr 2025
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Safe Sleep
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Medication
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Infection Control/Hand Washing - R Apr 2025
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Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP) - R Apr 2025
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Toxic Substances
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1. Two staff files did not have an application/resume. 2. One staff file did not have their EEC Essentials training.
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1. One child's file was missing a face sheet. 2. One child's file was missing documentation of a current physical.
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A Safe Sleep Non-Compliance was found as an infant child was sleeping in a weighted sleep sack.
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One child's life saving medication box did not contain the original label with the child's name.
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Accurate attendance; arrival/departure times
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No pillows comforters stuffed animals soft/padded materials
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Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP) - R Apr 2025
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Staff and children wash hands: after toileting or diapering
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Staff Records - R Apr 2025
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Violation
1. One staff file did not have documentation of an application/resume. 2. Two staff files did not have documentation of reference verifications. 3. One staff file did not have the date of interview documented. 4. Two staff files did not have documentation of a current physical. 5. Two staff files did not have documentation of their MMR's. 6. Two staff files did not have the required EEC Essentials Certificates.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
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1. The attendance was not accurate in the Young Toddler Classroom. 2. The attendance was not brought with the Older Toddler Classroom when they went to the Gross Motor Room.
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1. A child was sleeping with a bib on. 2. A child was sleeping with a pacifier that has an animal attached to it.
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An individual health care plan was not completed with all required documentation.
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1. A teacher did not wash a child's hands after diaper changing. 2. A teacher did not wash their hands after changing a diaper. 3. A teacher did not clean the changing table after a diaper change.
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Attendance Recording and Group Sizes/Ratios
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Emergency Evacuation - R Apr 2025
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Toxic Substances
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A child was picked up by a parent when the classroom was returning from the playground and they did not sign the child out on the attendance.
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The fire drill log did not document the exit doors that were used.
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1. A staff purse was hanging in the Older Toddler Classroom. 2. The cabinet under the sink in the Infant Classroom was not locked and it had staff purses in it.
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Indoor Space - safe, clean, in good repair
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Evacuation procedures posted at each exit
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Refrigerator temp. between 32-40 degrees; working thermometer in refrigerator
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Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP) - R Apr 2025
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An electrical outlet was not covered in the Preschool Classroom.
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Evacuation procedures were not posted by all exits.
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There was not a thermometer in the Infant refridgerator.
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One child's individual health care plan did not have all the required infromation.
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