Description: Carmen Taylor is a Licensed Home in ELKHART IN, with a maximum capacity of 12 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of Infant-Twelve. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Inspection Type/Date | Action needed to correct issue | Date Resolved |
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| Licensing 2022-07-07 |
The caregiver shall maintain and make available verification of the following: Annual Mantoux tuberculin test or chest x-ray for direct child care providers and all family members over eighteen (18) years of age | 2023-07-12 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-28.5(c)(1) At the time of the inspection the provider and 2 household members did not have current TB. |
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| Licensing 2022-07-07 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of criminal history checks on employees, volunteers, and all household members who are at least eighteen (18) years of age | 2023-07-12 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3) At the time of the inspection household member D did not have a current consent. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of certification of a current first aid course, training in Universal Precautions, and annual CPR certification by direct child care providers | 2021-07-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(5) At the time of the initial inspection the provider did not have documentation showing completion of CPR or First Aid |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
Child care providers shall see that childrens hands are washed at a sink with soap and warm running water before meals and snacks and after toilet use. Direct child care providers shall not permit children to use a common washcloth or towel | 2021-08-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-44(c) At the time of the initial inspection the water was tested at 130 degrees. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
A child care home shall maintain a written policy specifying the following: That the: use of: tobacco | 2021-07-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-5-3.5(b)(1)(a)(1) At the time of the initial inspection the provider did not have the needed posting for no tobacco and drug usuage within the home. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
When a fireplace serves as the primary source of heat, licensee shall provide glass doors, noncombustible hearth, grates, and proper fireplace tools for each fireplace in use while children are present. Child care providers shall ensure proper positioning of glass doors. If a fireplace is used at any time, it shall have a noncombustible hearth, screening, and grate. Licensee shall have the chimney flue inspected annually and cleaned if recommended. Licensee shall retain a written record of the inspections and cleanings for each fireplace used while children are present | 2021-08-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(j) At the time of the initial inspection the provider has a wood burning fireplace that is used and has not had an inspection. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
The licensee shall provide a protected outdoor play area that is safely enclosed by either a fence or natural boundaries for children in care | 2021-07-31 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-45(d) At the time of the intial inspection the provider has a play area that is not compeltely fenced in. There was a small standing trampoline located on the playground. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
Caregiver shall keep poisonous or hazardous materials that would harm children, including, but not limited to: cleaning supplies | 2021-07-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-48(c)(1) At the time of the intial inspection the provider had a bedroom that was accessible to children with vicks rub on the nightstand, soaps in the bathroom. In the area of the children's playroom there was a filled humidifier on a dresser, laundry room had soaps in a cabinet that was accessible to children and not locked, the bathroom for the children had soaps in the tub area that were in the reach of the children, the kitchen had cleaners under the sink that were in access to the children. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
A child care home shall, at no expense to the state, maintain and make available to the division upon request a copy of drug testing results for: the provider | 2021-08-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-5-3.5(a)(1) At the time of the initial inspection the provider did not have a result documentation for a drug screen on a household member. |
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| Licensing 2021-07-30 |
Direct child care providers who work in the home more than three (3) times a month and all members of the household having direct contact with children receiving care shall have an initial physical examination by a physician or certified nurse practitioner indicating that they are free from communicable disease, have no physical or other condition which would endanger the health or welfare of children in care, and have an annual Mantoux tuberculin test or chest x-ray | 2021-08-03 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-34(a) At the time of the initial inspection the provider did not have signed documentation as to a completed physical for a household member. |
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