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License #03GOD0004 · Center · Child Care Center
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Complete and maintain on file, a current Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL.
Maintain an illness log on file at the center that includes: the return date.
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Ensure that staff wash their hands with soap and running water as required including after a diaper change.
Ensure that children wash their hands with soap and running water as required including after a diaper change.
Clean microwave in room 5.
Ensure that all illuminated exit signs and emergency lighting are operable at all times throughout the center. room 8 and 11.
Ensure that CHRI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. 1 staff.
Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. 6 staff.
Develop a policy for parental notification of injuries since the center is using a method other than a telephone call; maintain on file a record of staff and parental receipt of receipt of the policy.
Ensure diapering surfaces are washed and disinfected after each use.
Ensure epi-pen is accompanied by a special care plan. 1 child.
Ensure fence door swings.
Complete and maintain on file, a current Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL.
Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. 1 staff.
This center inspection inspection recorded no violations or advisories.
Ensure that CHRI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. Pertaining to 1 staff.
Ensure that the information on the Staff Records Checklist is current and that it is maintained on file at the center.
Ensure that CHRI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. 3 staff.
Ensure that parents are notified immediately when a child falls from a height greater than the height of the child.
Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a children's records checklist, including the child's name, address, birth date and date of enrollment.
Ensure that parents are notified immediately when a child sustains a head or facial injury, including when a child bumps his or her head.
Ensure that all staff complete 12 hours of staff development annually.
Ensure that all credentialed staff complete 20 hours of staff development annually.
Ensure that 1 named staff member have a cleared CHRI form.
Ensure that pacifiers are removed when children are crawling or walking in Room 1.
Ensure that the center washes and disinfects toys mouthed by infants and toddlers before being given to another child in Room 1.
Current First Aid and CPR for the staff.
Ensure that the blankets do not cover the children faces in Room 1.
Cease the use of blankets for children under the age of 12 months in Room 1.
Clean the bathroom vents as needed throughout the center.
Repair the toilet in the boys bathroom in Room 9.
Ensure that 5 named staff members have a cleared CHRI form.
Return or discard the expired epi-pen in Room 11.
Wash and disinfect the table immediately before meals in Room 8.
Clean the mechanical ventilation in the bathrooms as needed throughout the center. abated 8/23/19 Repair the mechanical ventilation in Room 6.
A named child in Room 2 was walking around with a pacifier in his mouth. abated 8/23/19 A named child was walking around with a pacifier in her mouth in Room 1.
Ensure Epi-pens are accompanied by a special care plan or other equivalent documentation from a healthcare provider. 3 children. as of 6.24.24 1 child.
Provide a current fire certificate as required.
Ensure that the center washes and disinfects toys mouthed by infants and toddlers before they are given to another child.
Ensure that parents are notified immediately when a child sustains a head or facial injury, including when a child bumps his or her head.
Maintain an illness log on file at the center and ensure that it contains all of the required components, including: the child's name; symptoms of illness; actions taken by the center; and dates of exclusion and return.
Ensure that all illuminated exit signs and emergency lighting are operable at all times throughout the center in room 9.
Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for the sponsor/sponsor representative and all regularly scheduled staff. 2 staff.
Provide a current fire certificate as required.
Post a diagram showing how the center is to be evacuated from the outdoor play area.
Ensure that all staff working with children under 2.5 years of age have training specific to this age group initiated within 90 days of hire and completed within one year.
Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL.
Ensure that all staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal.
Complete and submit a DCF Renewal Attestation and all required documents.
Ensure that the center maintains and distributes to all families and staff a copy of the Information to Parents document and maintains on file signatures of all staff and families attesting to the receipt of the policy.
Maintain an illness log on file at the center and ensure that it contains all of the required components.
Develop and maintain on file an expulsion policy and maintain on file signatures from all families attesting to the receipt of the policy.
Ensure that the center maintains and distributes to all families the center's communicable disease policy and that it includes the list of symptoms for which a child will be excluded from the center.
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.
Ensure that all staff submit a CARI background check upon renewal.
Ensure that a Universal Health Record is completed upon enrollment and updated annually, including the immunization records and special care plans as required.
Ensure that 5 named staff complete orientation training.
Ensure that materials are accessible to the children at all times, except during lunch and nap time in Rooms 2 and 3.
Ensure that children wash their hands immediately after using the toilet or having their diaper changed in Room 1.
Cease the use of pacifier straps in Room 1.
The director designee shall be on the premises at all times when the center's director is not at the center.
Repair the emergency light in Room 1.
Clean or replace the stained ceiling tile in Room 1.
Submit the center's current water testing.
Ensure that the staff knows the number of children in their care at all times wherein a staff in Room 1 stated that they were caring for 10 children when 9 children were present.
Wash and disinfect the toys mouthed by infants and toddlers in Room 2.
Provide sleeping children with a crib when they fall asleep in rockers or bouncy seats in Room 1.
Ensure that 1 named staff member have a cleared CARI form.
Update the staff records checklist.
Children over the age of 2 shall be encouraged to wear mask when appropriate and safe in room 4.
Wash and disinfect the tables before meals in Room 9.
Ensure that the children wash their hands when coming into contact with nasal secretions in Room 7.
Repair the emergency light in Room 7.
Ensure that the children are directly supervised at all times wherein a named child between 6-10 years old was in the hallway on the computer unsupervised.
Repair the light in Room 4 bathroom.
Ensure orientation training is done annually for all the staff.
Remove the pacifier attachment in Room 1.