Busy Bee's Daycare Center - Kokomo IN Licensed Center

4008 South Dixon Road , Kokomo IN 46902
(765) 459-4288

About the Provider

Description: Busy Bee's Daycare Center is a Licensed Center in Kokomo IN, with a maximum capacity of 91 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infant-Toddler; Two-Twelve. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: PTQ Level 1;

Program and Licensing Details

  • Capacity: 91
  • Age Range: Infant-Toddler; Two-Twelve
  • PTQ Level: 3
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Current License Issue Date: 2023-10-01
  • District Office: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration - Bureau of Child Care
  • District Office Phone: 1-877-511-1144 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Inspection Type/Date Action needed to correct issue Date Resolved
Licensing
2024-04-05
There shall be a soft sanitizable pad on the table with a clean strip of waterproof, disposable paper to cover the entire pad. Caregivers shall place a new, waterproof, paper strip on the pad after each diaper change
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-94(n)
diaper pad in the twos classroom is ripped, needs replaced so it is sanitizable.
Licensing
2023-09-05
There shall be a soft sanitizable pad on the table with a clean strip of waterproof, disposable paper to cover the entire pad. Caregivers shall place a new, waterproof, paper strip on the pad after each diaper change 2023-09-05
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-94(n)
In the 2's room, the diaper pad is wrapped in packing tape which is pealing up making it unsanitizable.
Licensing
2023-09-05
Child/staff ratios and supervision 2023-09-05
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-48
One staff (HS) in the 2's, does not have a completed consent form on file with the division; therefore can not count in ratio. This makes the ratio in the 2's room 8:1 instead of 8:2. When the consultant walked into the preschool restroom (in hallway), there was a child in the stall. There was not a teacher in or right outside the restroom with the child. The teacher was in the classroom with other students. This child was in a 1:0 ratio.
Licensing
2023-09-05
Electric fans, if used, shall be securely mounted high on the wall or ceiling or shall be guarded to limit the size of the opening in the blade guard with properly installed sixteen (16) gauge mesh screen. The Underwriters Laboratory must approve all fans 2023-09-06
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-101(c)
Throughout the classrooms, fans are being used and do not have properly installed 16 guage mesh screens on them and/or are not mounted high on the wall/ceiling.
Licensing
2023-09-05
During the first two (2) weeks of employment, all staff shall receive documented training in recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect. The director shall update this training annually 2023-09-05
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-13(b)
One staff (T.W.) does not have evidence of current child abuse and neglect training in her file.
Licensing
2023-06-12
The following minimums shall be provided to each group to children two (2) years of age and older: A set of wooden unit blocks 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-63(c)(5)
Two year old room does not have wooden unit blocks
Licensing
2023-06-12
Each room shall have, at a minimum, the following: A sand/water/sensory table or container with equipment for measuring and pouring 2023-06-13
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-133(b)(2)
Two's room does not have a sand/sensory table.
Licensing
2023-06-12
Staff shall cover, date, and refrigerate open containers of food. Caregivers shall use or discard the contents of opened jars within twenty-four (24) hours 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-139(b)
Baby food in the infant refrigerator is opened.
Licensing
2023-06-12
Caregivers shall: provide an art easel with paint and paper in each toddler room 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-133(a)(2)
Toddler room is missing art easel with paper
Licensing
2023-06-12
The following minimums shall be provided to each group to children two (2) years of age and older: A water/sand/alternative type of activity 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-63(c)(3)
Two year old classroom does not have a water/sand table.
Licensing
2023-06-12
All items in the restroom must be sanitizable 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-113(n)
In the toddler restroom, there is a tunnel being stored and cots being stored. All items in the restroom must relate to toileting and be sanitizable.
Licensing
2023-06-12
Records, kept at the child care center, shall document the following for all current staff, substitutes, and volunteers: A statewide limited criminal history check completed by the Indiana state police 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-41(a)(3)
Two staff do not have consent froms on file with the division and therefore, fingerprints can not be checked for a NCHC: AS and AM
Licensing
2023-06-12
Subject to section 3.3 of this chapter, the applicant must, at no expense to the state, do the following: Require an employee or volunteer of the applicant who may be present on the premises of the child care center during operating hours of the child care center to submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: IC 12-17.2-4-3(e)(1)
Two staff do not have current consent form on file allowing for background check to be done.
Licensing
2023-06-12
Food shall be covered during transport from kitchen 2023-06-13
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-79(f)
Food plated in the kitchen and brought to classrooms on cart was not covered.
Licensing
2023-06-12
Children two (2) years of age shall have small climbing equipment that they can go in and out of, over, and around in their area 2023-06-12
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-4.7-63(f)
Two year old room does not have climing equipement in the classroom

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