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License #P-170052 · Center · Center-Based Care
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This renewal - full review visit inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
This monitoring visit inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
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This investigation inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
An assistant was alone with two preschoolers, another assistant was alone with a group of Kindergarten children, and one classroom did not have accurate attendance.
Attendance Recording and Group Sizes/Ratios
Medication
An inhaler was expired for one child in the toddler room.
Building Inspection;Fire Inspection;Environment free of pests;Date of IPM-RApr25
The allergy list was missing a child with asthma, and several children were missing emergency or life saving medications, including but not limited to epinephrine auto-injectors and inhalers that specifies to which children they belong.
Allergies, medical info, special diets, emergency medications; privacy protected
The building and fire inspections are expired.
This capacity increase visit inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
Staff monitor environment for hazards-Hazardous items not accessible to children
Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP) - R Apr 2025
During a review of children’s files, it was learned that one of the children’s files was missing a IHCP.
A pocketbook was accessible to children in the toddler room.
This change of space visit inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
Individual Health Care Plan (IHCP) - R Apr 2025
Emergency medications readily available
A child in the CH1 classroom left the room to get something from her cubby. Staff allowed the child to leave alone and close the door with no direct supervision.
The budget was not posted in document library.
Budget; Financial documentation
Staff records checklist
BRC Policies
Staff Records - R Apr 2025
Supervision of children
Equipment is clean, safe, secured, and poses no hazard.
Indoor Space
Staff and children wash hands: before/after water play
Food Storage, Sanitation & Safety
The staff records checklist was not in the document library.
BRC policies are not posted in the document library.
During the file review the following information was missing/ expired: 1.Physicals 2.No staff evaluations 3. Evidence of MMR's in one file.
At the time of the visit Children in CH1 were using a loft in an unsafe manner. They were not being supervised while climbing up a ladder that had no railings and were standing up once at the top of the loft and the barrier was not tall enough to prevent a child from falling over the side.
At the time of the visit there was a cup of coffee accessible to the children and a staff purse was accessible to children in the CH 1 room. Travel mugs were on a counter and within reach of the children. There were sharp objects in a drawer in the toddler room accessible to the children.
At the time of the visit there was missing information from individual health care plans.
At the time of the visit there was expired medication in the CH1 room and the toddler room.
At the time of the visit a child who was playing in the water table did not wash their hands after they were done.
At the time of the visit the CH1 room had cereal that did not include an expiration date. The CH2 room had expired pretzels.