Magnolia Ridge Child Development Center

22.1-289.035-B-4 · The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years.

Staff #1, employed for three months, did not have documentation of requesting a central registry check or criminal history check from one state.

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8VAC20-790-600-F · Staff who work directly with children shall annually attend at least 16 hours of training and staff development activities, to include the department's health and safety update course.

Staff #3 did not have a completed annual health and safety update course for 2025 and was overdue by seven months.

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22.1-289.035-B-2 · Providers must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee's first day of employment.

Staff #1 had a completed national criminal background check two days after first day of employment.

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8VAC20-780-260-B · After the first license, annual approval from the health department shall be provided, or approvals of a plan of correction, for meeting requirements for water, sewage and food service.

The last environmental sanitation inspection was dated 01/08/2024.

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8VAC20-780-340-A · Repeat Violation:

When staff are supervising children, they shall always ensure their care, protection, and guidance. Child #1, age 11 years, and child #2, age 11 years, engaged in inappropriate touching while on an afternoon bus route from the children?s school to the center. Staff #2 was the driver of the five minute bus route and unaware of the occurrence.

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8VAC20-780-270-A · Areas and equipment of the center, inside and outside, shall be maintained in a clean, safe and operable condition.

In classroom 2, there was a cabinet with a broken lock exposing a protruding component that could snag skin. In classroom 2, a cabinet had chipped and peeling paint on the edges.

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8VAC20-780-40-E · The operational responsibilities of the licensee shall include ensuring that the center's activities and services are maintained in compliance with the center's own policies and procedures that are required by the standards.

The center?s discipline policy in the parent handbook states: ?Magnolia Ridge permits NO PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT OF ANY KIND or withholding of food, drink, or bathroom privileges. Our teachers practice cause and effect discipline methods and under no circumstance yell, threaten, or belittle children in any manner.? The center?s discipline policy in the staff handbook states: ?Inappropriate forms of discipline are to never verbally or physically abuse a child. Always encourage positive self-esteem. Communicate with children on their level. Never yell at children.? On 12/03/2024, staff #1 was supervising a room of preschool children. Staff #1 carried child #1 (age three years) into the classroom sideways by the waist, placed the child down on the floor to speak with the child, and then grabbed child #1?s cheeks.

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8VAC20-780-550-A · The center shall have a written emergency preparedness plan that addresses staff responsibility and facility readiness with respect to emergency evacuation and relocation, shelter-in-place, and lockdown. The plan, which shall be developed in consultation with local or state authorities, shall include the most likely to occur emergency scenario or scenarios, including fire, severe storms, loss of utilities, natural disaster, chemical spills, intruder, violence at or near the center, terrorism specific to the locality, and other situations, including facility damage that requires evacuation, lockdown, or shelter-in-place.

The emergency preparedness plan did not include the following items; proof that plan was developed in consultation with local or state authorities, plan that addresses loss of utilities, identifies a center emergency officer and back-up officer, accommodations for infants, toddler and children with special needs to ensure safety during evacuation or relocation, procedures to reunite children with a parent or authorized person, lockdown procedures, continuity of operations to ensure that essential functions are maintained during an emergency.

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