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License #121000210 · Center · Child Care Center
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Update the center's staff records checklist to reflect current staff.
Ensure that staff wash their hands with soap and running water as required before preparing or serving food.
Provide a current life/hazard use registration certificate applicable to the center's licensed capacity and ages served.
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Provide screens on all doors and windows used for ventilation, in crawl spaces and in attic spaces. At the time of the inspection, the entrance door and a classroom door were propped open and closed upon request.
Ensure that all staff complete orientation training within two weeks of hire and annually and maintain on file staff signatures attesting to the training.
Provide CHRI background clearances for 5 named staff.
Ensure tables are washed and disinfected before each meal.
Ensure that all fire extinguishers are serviced and tagged annually and recharged if necessary.
Clean child-sized chairs throughout the building.
Complete and maintain on file, a current Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL.
Ensure Epi-pens are stored in their original boxes with the child's name and prescription, accompanied by a special care plan that includes procedures for contacting parents and emergency medical services, and both epi-pens are present when two are required.
Provide a current fire certificate as required.
Provide a current life/hazard use registration certificate applicable to the center's licensed capacity and ages served.
Ensure that adequate staff/child ratios are maintained at all times throughout the center.
Provide documentation that the director meets the required qualifications as specified in the manual.
Remove electric space heaters.
Ensure that all staff complete orientation training within two weeks of hire and annually. Provide documentation of completion for 3 staff members.
Ensure that all staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required. Provide results for 9 staff members.
Ensure that all walls are floorboards are maintained clean throughout the center.
Repair or replace cracked materials on the outdoor playground equipment.
Repair and/or paint the wall in Room 2.
Ensure that children's books are maintained in good condition in Room 1.
Maintain and distribute to all families and staff a copy of the current Information to Parents document and maintain on file signatures of all staff and families attesting to the receipt of the policy.
Complete a Child Abuse Record Information (CARI) background check for the center’s license renewal as required for 4 staff members.
Submit education/training experience for the director.
Submit a Staff Records Checklist indicating that the center has obtained the required documentation for the sponsor/sponsor representative and each individual staff member.
Ensure that toxins are inaccessible to children at all time. At the time of the inspection sanitizer was on the shelf and was relocated upon request.
Ensure that children's high chair trays are washed and disinfected immediately before each meal.
Ensure that children wash their hands with soap and water before and after each meal.
Based on complaint #18753, ensure that staff use methods of positive guidance and discipline developmentally appropriate to the child's age when disciplining children.
Provide documentation of the center's current comprehensive general liability insurance coverage.
Provide annual orientation training to 3 staff.
Based on information, ensure that staff utilize positive methods of guidance and discipline at all times throughout the center. A named staff grabbed a named child by the arm in a forceful manner.
Based on information, retrain all staff on the center's discipline policy.
Ensure the doorframe to the bathroom in room is clean.
Replace the torn diapering pad in room 1.
Discontinue strapping children into the small chairs during circle time in room 1.
Provide documentation that designated staff are trained on how to administer medications.
Replenish surfacing around playground equipment.
Repair cracks in the stucco on the exterior of the building.
Repair and/or paint surfaces in room 4.
Complete and submit a DCF Drinking Water Testing Checklist and Statement of Assurance and a copy of the center's water testing completed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. Water testing report submitted to the OOL on 8/25/2025.
Complete and maintain on file, a current Children's Records Checklist designated by OOL.
Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff for the center's license renewal. On 8/27/2025, 1 result outstanding.
Ensure that staff wash their hands with soap and running water as required after contact with nasal secretions in room 3.
Ensure that all staff have completed training pertaining to the center's policies and procedures for tracking children and are aware of the number of children in their care at all times.
Provide a current fire certificate as required.
Ensure that CHRI background checks are completed as required for 4 staff members.
Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for all staff within two weeks of hire. Provide results for 3 staff members.
Complete and maintain on file a current Staff Records Checklist.
Repair/replace inoperable emergency lighting in room 4.
Submit a copy of the center’s current Life Hazard Use Certificate of Registration applicable to the center’s licensed capacity of 57 and ages 0-13 years served, AB01.
Submit documentation of each staff member's completion of orientation within the last 12 months. Om 10/15/2019, 2 outstanding.
Submit documentation indicating that at least 2 staff members present at the center have current basic knowledge of first aid principles and CPR.
Complete a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) background check as required and submit results for 5 staff members. On 10/5/2021, 1 result provided. On 10/15/2021, 1 outstanding.
Submit a copy of the center’s radon testing report conducted within 5 years in every room on the lowest floor used by children.
Designate someone to be on the premises at all times when the center is operating that does not have full-time classroom responsibilities when the director is not present at the center.
Ensure that equipment used for children is used in accordance with the manufactures instructions to include age usage. At the time of the investigation, children over 2 years of age and up to 4 years of age were observed in seats with straps meant for children under 24 months of age.
Provide age appropriate seating for all children. At the time of the investigation, children ages 2-4 were observed sitting in seats with straps to keep them from getting up and out of their seats while eating.
Ensure that computer equipment and cords are secure and that they do no provide a tripping hazards to children and staff.
Ensure that incident reports are completed as required and that parents are notified immediately of head and facial injuries as required by OOL.
Based on complaint #18751, retrain all staff on methods of positive guidance and discipline developmentally appropriate for the child's age.
Based on complaint #18766, ensure that the center reports all children and staff positive cases of COVID-19 to the Department of Health and OOL and that all families are notified of possible exposure as per Executive Order #149 for reopening centers.
Ensure child/staff ratios are maintained at all times. At the time of the inspection, a staff was alone in room 3 with 6 children, 5 ages 0-18 months and 1 age 18-30 months when 2 were required.
Ensure that staff wash their hands with soap and water before preparing or serving meals. The use of gloves doe not replace OOL's requirements to wash hands.
Ensure the mechanical ventilation in room 3 is dust free.