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Home › MI › Hillsdale › Little Acres Daycare II
131 Fayette Street West, Hillsdale MI 49242 · License #DC304016146 · Center · Center
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Early childhood center, small capacity child care center, and outdoor nature-based child care center program administrator qualifications; responsibilities. (3) A program administrator can oversee multiple sites if all of the following are met: (a) Is immediately available for not less than 5 sessions during 30 consecutive open days within the center. Consecutive open days do not include days that are closed for holidays, planned closed days, or emergency closures.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers and review of work attendance, the program administrator has been present at the center as required.
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Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
Medication; administrative procedures (4) Prescription medication must have the pharmacy label indicating the physician's name, child's first and last name, instructions, name and strength of the medication, and must be given according to those instructions.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee and teachers, prescription medication is accessible and given according to those instructions.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8201(2)(e) · R 400.8201(2)(e) Comprehensive background check; fingerprinting. (2) An applicant or licensee shall do all of the following: (e) Complete and maintain the connection, disconnection, or withdrawn status of each individual associated with the license within the department's child care background check system.
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Data synced from Michigan MiLEAP, Child Care Licensing Bureau on Jul 9, 2026 · Source records · Report an error
Based on a review of the child care background check system, teachers are connected to the licensee that are no longer affiliated with the facility.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: background checks. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8207(1) · R 400.8207(1) Early childhood center, small capacity child care center, and outdoor nature-based child care center site administrator qualifications; responsibilities. (1) A site administrator shall be present at the center during all hours of operation when the program administrator, who is overseeing multiple sites, is not on the premises.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers and review of work attendance, the site administrator has not been present at the center as required.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8280(2)(d) · R 400.8280(2)(d) Discipline (2) All of the following means of punishment are prohibited: (d) Inflicting mental or emotional punishment, s uch as humiliating, shaming, or threatening a child.
Based on interviews with the licensee, teachers, and parents of children in care, Teacher 2 has used prohibited discipline with children by calling them names and using vulgar language.
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R 400.8219(3) · R 400.8219(3) Sleeping, resting, and supervision (3) Infants shall rest or sleep alone in cribs or p ortable cribs. Bureau
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Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8213(1)(a) · R 400.8213(1)(a) Staff; volunteer (1) All staff and volunteers present at the center shall: (a) Provide appropriate care and supervision o f children at all times.
Based on interviews with the parents of children in care, the child care failed to provide appropriate care and supervision and undocumented biting incidents occurred.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8161(1) · 4 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP R 400.8161(1) Maintenance of premises. (1) The premises must be maintained in a clean and safe condition and must not pose a threat to health or safety.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers, and parents of children in care, the child care center has a ppropriately maintained the premises.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
722.120(1)(c) Investigation, inspection, and examination of conditions, books, records, and reports; access by department, bureau of fire services, or local authorities; records; report; forms; confidentiality; disclosure of information; Providing accurate and truthful information to the department, and encouraging witnesses, such as staff and household members, to provide accurate and truthful information to the department.
Based on interviews with teachers and interactions occurring with licensee designee Dana Lipinski during onsite inspections, she has failed to provide accurate and truthful information to the department at all times and has encouraged staff to not provide accurate or truthful information to the department.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: recordkeeping. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8330(10) · PR19-R 400.8330(10) Food services and nutrition generally. 5 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP Menus must be planned in advance, dated, and posted in a place visible to parents. Food substitutions must be noted on the menus the day t he substitution occurs.
Based on interviews with teachers, and parents of children in care, food was provided to child care children that was not noted on the menu or noted as a substitution.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: nutrition. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8121(3) · R 400.8121(3) Indoor space. (3) A center shall provide a floor plan of all child use areas to the department at initial licensure and before making structural changes or adding any child use space. Only space that has received prior approval for child use by the department may be u sed for child care.
Based on the onsite inspections and interviews with the licensee designees the child care failed to obtain approval from the department before making structural changes or adding any child use space.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: physical safety. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8134(2) · R 400.8134(2) Sleeping equipment. (2) Heavy objects that could fall on a child, such as shelving and televisions, must not be above sleeping e quipment.
Based on the onsite inspections and interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, and teachers, the child care had a shelving cabinet unit installed over a crib used by child care children.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: physical safety. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8201(2)(e) · R 400.8201(2)(e) Comprehensive background check; fingerprinting. (2) An applicant or licensee shall do all of the following: (e) Complete and maintain the connection, disconnection, or withdrawn status of each individual associated with the license within the department's c hild care background check system.
Based on a review of the staff records and the child care background check system, the onsite inspections, and interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, and teachers, teachers working at the child care facility were not accurately connected to the child care facility in the comprehensive background check system.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: background checks. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8213a(2) · R 400.8213a(2) MiRegistry (2) Within 30 calendar days after employment, all program staff, unsupervised volunteers, and substitute teachers shall have a verified program o rganization employment entry in MiRegistry.
Based on a review of the staff records, the onsite inspections, and interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, and teachers, teachers working at the child care facility are not connected to the child care organization.
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Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8222(4)(a) · R 400.8222(4)(a) Capacity; ratio and group size requirements (4) In each room or well-defined space, the maximum group size and ratio of child care staff members to children, including children related to a staff member or the licensee, must be as shown in Table 1: (a) Infants and toddlers, birth until 30 months of age, child care staff member to child ratio of 1 to 4 , maximum group size of 12.
Based on the 10/16/2025 onsite inspection, and interviews with teachers, and parents of children in care, the center has failed to maintain required ratios and group size in the infant classroom.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8263(1)(b) · R 400.8263(1)(b) Child accidents and incidents; child and staff illness (1) A center shall develop and implement a written plan for how and when a parent is notified if program staff or volunteers observe any of the following: (b) A child experiences an accident, injury, or i ncident.
Based on interviews with the teachers, and parents of children in care, the child care failed to follow their written notification plan for when a child experiences a biting injury.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8263(4)(a) · R 400.8263(4)(a) Child accidents and incidents; child and staff illness (4) If a center becomes aware that a staff member, volunteer, or child in care has contracted a communicable disease, the center shall notify parents and provide all of the following information: (a) The name of the communicable disease t he children were exposed to.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers, and parents of children in care, the center failed to properly provide a detailed communication that an enrolled child contracted a communicable disease including the name of the communicable disease the children were exposed to.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8263(4)(b) · R 400.8263(4)(b) Child accidents and incidents; child and staff illness (4) If a center becomes aware that a staff member, volunteer, or child in care has contracted a communicable disease, the center shall notify parents and provide all of the following information: (b) The symptoms of the disease.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers, and parents of children in care, the center failed to properly provide a detailed communication that an enrolled child contracted a communicable disease including the symptoms for the communicable disease the children were exposed to.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8263(4)(c) · R 400.8263(4)(c) Child accidents and incidents; child and staff illness (4) If a center becomes aware that a staff member, volunteer, or child in care has contracted a communicable disease, the center shall notify parents and provide all of the following information: (c) Prevention measures as recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the following website: h ttps://www.cdc.gov.
Based on interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, teachers, and parents of children in care, the center failed to properly provide a detailed communication that an enrolled child contracted a communicable disease including the prevention measures for the communicable disease the children were exposed to.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: health medication. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8280(2)(g) · R 400.8280(2)(g) Discipline 11 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP (2) All of the following means of punishment are prohibited: (g) Excluding a child from daily learning e xperiences.
Based on observations during the onsite inspection, and interviews with the licensee designee and teachers, a child was excluded from daily learning experiences by being confined in a crib.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: physical safety. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8510(1) · R 400.8510(1) Plans and specifications; submission; approval; inspections (1) A complete set of plans and specifications of any proposed center or proposed addition, alteration, or remodeling to an existing center must be submitted to the department for review and approval. If the total cost of the project is $25,000.00 or more, including labor and materials, the plans must bear t he seal of a registered architect or engineer.
Based on the onsite inspections and interviews with the licensee designee, program administrator, and teachers, the child care failed to obtain approval from bureau of fire safety before making structural changes or adding any child use space.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8510(2) · R 400.8510(2) Plans and specifications; submission; approval; inspections (2) Written approval must be obtained from the d epartment before initiating any construction.
Based on the onsite inspections and interviews with the licensee designee the child care failed to obtain approval from the department before initiating construction to the facility.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8182(3)(a) · R 400.8182(3)(a) Ratio and group size requirements. Infants and toddlers, birth until 30 months of age, child care staff member to child ratio of 1 to 4, maximum group size of 12.
Based on interviews with the program director, child care staff members, and parents of children in care, there is not enough information to support that the child care has been recently allowing the infant room to be out of the required child to staff ratio.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8330(22) · R 400.8330(22) Food services and nutrition generally. Infants or toddlers shall not have bottles, beverage containers, or food in sleeping equipment. 2 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP
During the onsite inspection, I observed a partially finished bottle in a crib with a sleeping infant.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: nutrition. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8122(5) · R 400.8122(5) Lead caregiver; qualifications; responsibilities. Lead caregivers shall meet 1 of the following qualifications shown in Table 3:
Lead caregivers working in the infant and toddler rooms do not meet the education requirements.
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R 400.8520(14) · R 400.8520(14) Interior finishes. Combustible materials and decorations may be displayed on walls, not to exceed 20% of each wall in each room. Combustible materials and decorations suspended from or n ear the ceiling are prohibited.
CONCLUSION: REQUIREMENT NOT MET CORRECTIVE Combustible materials have been taken down from the ACTION PLAN: ceiling. DATE COMPLIANCE 5/22/25 WILL BE ACHIEVED BY: Bureau
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8125(1) · R 400.8125(1) Staff; volunteer; requirements. All staff and volunteers shall provide appropriate care and supervision of children at all times.
Appropriate care and supervision are not being provided when children are being left alone in their well defined spaces without a child care staff member.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8182(3)(a) · R 400.8182(3)(a) Ratio and group size requirements. Infants and toddlers, birth until 30 months of age, child care staff member to child ratio of 1 to 4, maximum group size of 12.
Infant ratios are not being maintained when more than four infants are present with only one child care staff member.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: ratio. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8188(11) · R 400.8188(11) Sleeping, resting, and supervision. Infants and toddlers who fall asleep in a space that is not approved for sleeping shall be moved to approved sleep equipment appropriate for their age and size.
Infants are falling asleep in spaces that are not approved for sleeping, such as bouncers, swings, and high chairs, and they are not being moved to cribs.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8176(6) · R 400.8176(6) Sleeping equipment. Car seats, infant seats, swings, bassinets, and play yards are not approved sleeping equipment.
Infants are sleeping un unapproved sleep equipment such as bouncers, swings, and high chairs.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: physical safety. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8143(11) · R 400.8143(11) Children's records. A center shall maintain an accurate record of daily attendance at the center that includes each child's first and last name and each child's arrival and departure time. Electronic records may be used. If electronic attendance 5 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP records are used, then they must be available to the department at the time of an inspection. If the electronic attendance records are not available during an on-site inspection, then the center is in violation of this rule.
It could not be confirmed that the center is maintaining an accurate daily record of children’s attendance, as requested records were never provided.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: recordkeeping. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8110(6) · R 400.8110(6) Applicant; licensee; licensee designee; requirements. The licensee or licensee designee shall maintain accurate records detailing daily arrival and departure times for each child care staff member, child care aide, and volunteer.
It could not be confirmed that the center is maintaining an accurate daily record of child care staff members’ attendance, as requested documents were never provided.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: recordkeeping. Open / not marked corrected.
R 400.8143(1) · R 400.8143(1) Children's records. At the time of a child's initial attendance, a center shall obtain a child information card, using a form provided by the department or a comparable substitute, that is completed and signed by the child's parent. The center shall keep it on file and accessible in the center.
Child information cards are not being fully completed for children. I viewed eight child information records and all of 6 LANDMARK BUILDING • 105 W. ALLEGAN STREET • LANSING, MICHIGAN 48933 Michigan.gov/MiLEAP them were missing date of admission. Two cards had more than one child on a card.
Open Not marked corrected in the state record
Category: recordkeeping. Open / not marked corrected.