Early Learning Child Care Center

“The operation has been cited on two separate occasions for prohibited punishments. Based on the repeated deficiencies, the Director is not meeting Minimum Standard rules.”

“A caregiver used profanity towards a child in care.”

“A caregiver was using a high chair as means for time out.”

“Two bottles were unlabeled in the Infant Room. This was corrected at inspection when the bottles were labeled.”

“Two infants were sleeping in swings during inspection. The infants were removed.”

“The Infant room was out of ratio. There were 14 total children with 2 caregivers. The maximum number of intants to 2 caregivers are 10.”

“While the caregiver stood a child up on the changing table to pull the child's pants up, the child's knees buckled causing the child to loose balance and fall on the floor.”

“One caregiver states she does check/use her phone throughout the day in the event her children call her.”

“Upon arrival, I observed 6 infants with one caregiver. The specified age group of this class was 0-11 mths. One caregiver can have 4 infants. This was corrected when the second caregiver came back from the rest room. One classroom had 12 children with one caregiver. The specified age group was two years of age. One caregiver can have 11 children this age. This was corrected when one child was moved to another classroom.”

“Evidence received during an investigation supports that staff used poor judgement related to a school age child in care who had a toilet accident. The child was not assisted after the accident and remained in soiled clothing until being picked up from care 2 hours later.”

“There are 5 mats torn with the foam filling exposed. This was corrected at inspection when the mats were replaced with the new ones.”

“At least one staff member is not using good judgement when calling the children by a nickname the staff has given the children that do not give a positive image of the child.”

“There is no fire extinguisher on the van which transports children to and from school.”

“There is no first aid kit in the van which transports children to and from school.”