Description: Welcome to The Children’s Center at Gracelyn. The Children’s Center is a certified “Green” five star child enrichment facility. Our cleaning supplies are certified “green” and all of our foods are organic, whole wheat and whole grain. We provide morning and afternoon snacks and serve organic milk with the children’s lunches that are packed and brought from home.
Our educated and experienced teacher teams work hard to provide our children with exciting daily experiences where they can learn, grow and develop socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically through developmentally appropriate practices. Our learning curriculums are focused on play and creatively planned learning experiences (NC Foundations and The Creative Curriculum). These experiences are carefully designed to encourage children to learn colors, shapes, counting and numbering, to enhance fine motor skills (strengthening hands and fingers for writing), offer simple problem solving activities, daily storytelling and to follow multi-step directions with a special focus on social-emotional development. All of which are developmentally appropriate and necessary components for successful future educational experiences for our little ones.
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-22 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2023-11-14 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 541 | .0902(a) |
| The written feeding plan did not include the child's name, parent signature, and/or was not dated when received by the center. The infant feeding plan for one (1) child in classroom space 6 was not signed by the parent. | |||
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 1035 | .0701(a) |
| Child care providers, including the director, uncompensated providers, substitute providers, and volunteers did not have the required Emergency Information Form on file on or before the first day of work, which included all the required information and/or the information on the form was not updated as changes occur and at least annually. One (1) staff, hire date 2/14/23, completed the Emergency Information form on 3/27/23. | |||
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 1048 | .1102(c) |
| All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. One (1) staff, hire date 2/14/23, completed Basic Life Support (BLS) training on 4/1/22. The BLS training did not include First Aid Training. | |||
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 1325 | .1804(b) |
| Parent’s statement includes the child’s name and date of enrollment and the date the parent signed the statement. The statement acknowledging receipt of the discipline policy was missing the date of enrollment for three (3) children's files. | |||
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 1874 | .0608(d)(1-4) |
| The Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy was not reviewed with new staff prior to providing care with children and/or a signed acknowledgement with all the required information was not maintained in the staff person's file. One (1) staff, hire date 2/14/23, signed the Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy acknowledgement on 3/27/23. | |||
| 2023-11-14 | Violation | 1882 | .0803(6)(a-i); .0803(7)(a-g); .0803(8)(a-d) |
| Medication authorization, giving the caregiver standing authorization did not meet the specifications in rule. Permission to administer Children's Allegra for one (1) children in classroom space 6 was valid from 4/6/23-10/6/23. | |||
| 2023-06-27 | Announced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-11-22 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 541 | .0902(a) |
| The written feeding plan did not include the child's name, parent signature, and/or was not dated when received by the center. The infant feeding plan for child CW was not signed by the parents. | |||
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 841 | 15A NCAC 18A .2820(d) |
| Medications including prescription and non-prescription items were not stored in a locked cabinet or other locked container. Benadryl in classroom space 4 was not kept in locked storage. Prescription diaper cream, Nyastatin, in classroom space 6 was not kept in locked storage. | |||
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 844 | .0803(2)(a) |
| Prescribed medicine was not in original labeled container or accompanied by signed and dated written instructions from prescribing physician or health care professional. Nyastatin in classroom space 6 was not kept in original prescription label. | |||
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 852 | .0802 (e) |
| Incident reports were not completed each time a child was injured, it did not include all the information required in rule, it was not signed by the parent and/or it was not maintained in the child's file. Incident reports were not maintained in the children's files. | |||
| 2022-11-22 | Violation | 1048 | .1102(c) |
| All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. Staff member BP with a hire date of 8/9/2022 did not complete First Aid training within 90 days of hire. | |||
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The Children's Center at Gracelyn provided my son outstanding care. The high teacher to child ratio in the toddler room in combination with the fact all the teachers (in all rooms) have been there a very long time is wonderful. I very highly recommend them!