NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: COUNTRY KIDS PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE, LLC Facility ID: 63000464 Consultant: DEBORAH DAVIS Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 4/28/2025 Number Present: 25 Completed Date: 4/28/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 90 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 12:15 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor your program for compliance with applicable child care requirements for an annual compliance visit. Laura Hope, operator, assisted me with the visit. Your program currently operates with a five star license, issued Augusts 9, 2019, earning 7 points in the education component, 7 points in the program standards component (meeting enhanced space) and 1 quality point meeting the programmatic option. The last annual compliance visit was conducted May 8, 2024. The sanitation inspection was completed January 16, 2025 with a “Superior” classification. The last fire inspection was conducted January 24, 2025 and your facility was approved for daytime care only. The center's compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was one hundred percent as of April 27, 2025. Any violations documented today may affect the compliance history score. You visited each indoor and outdoor space with me. Children were observed playing outside, toileting, preparing for and eating lunch and resting. Lunch was observed. Children bring all meals and snacks from home. There was one violation documented and discussed with Mrs. Hope today. Violation Number Comment Rule 808 The child care center premises, including the outdoor learning environment, was not clean, drained to minimize standing water, free of litter and hazards, and/or maintained in a manner which does not create conditions that attract or harbor pests. The limbs of bushes were growing through the playground fence. 15A NCAC 18A .2832(a) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. On or before May 12, 2025, I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is considered legal documentation. If I do not receive the compliance letter by that date a follow up visit is required. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. Mail or email the information to: Debbie Davis, Child Care Consultant 300 Sunset Drive, Robbins, NC 27325 Deborah.w.davis@dhhs.nc.gov If you email the compliance letter, it must be sent from the email address registered with the DCDEE (this serves as your signature) and the following information must be included: name, position, facility name, and facility ID number. An example is: Jane Doe, Administrator AAA Child Care ID # 12345678 The visit summary was discussed with Mrs. Hope and a copy was left at the facility. Contact me at (910) 709-4222 or by e mail at Deborah.w.davis@dhhs.nc.gov if you have questions. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times