Chris Steeles Home Daycare

Regulation: 3290.102(a)

Description: Clean and good repair

Noncompliance Area: Observed on the outdoor play space two pieces of children's plastic climbing equipment that were cracked with a sharp edge or possible pinch point.

Correction Required: Toys, play equipment and other indoor and outdoor equipment used by the children shall be clean, in good repair and free from rough edges, sharp corners, pinch and crush points, splinters and exposed bolts.

Regulation: 3290.131(a)/3290.131(e)

Description: Within 60 days/Immunization record

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1, older toddler, is lacking an initial health report including immunization record conducted within 60 days of the first day of attendance at the child care home. The file does contain a current health report.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent of an enrolled child to provide an initial health report no later than 60 days following the first day of attendance at the facility. The facility may not accept or retain an infant 2 months of age or older, a toddler or a preschool child at the facility for more than 60 days following the first day of attendance at the facility unless the parent provides written verification from a physician, physician's assistant, CRNP, the Department of Health or a local health department of the dates (month, day and year) the child was administered immunizations in accordance with the recommendations of the ACIP.

Regulation: 3290.182(1)

Description: Initial and subsequent health assessments

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1 is lacking an initial health report within 60 days of the first day of attendance.

Correction Required: A child's record must contain initial and subsequent health reports.

Regulation: 3290.22(a)

Description: Availability of certificate of compliance and applicable regulations

Noncompliance Area: The certificate of compliance that was posted in the family child care home expired 6/29/2025.

Correction Required: The facility's current certificate of compliance shall be posted in a conspicuous location used by parents, with instructions for contacting the appropriate regional child care office posted at the same location.

Regulation: 3290.31(f)/3290.192(4)

Description: Age and training/Required training

Noncompliance Area: The file for staff person #1 is lacking 12 hours of child care training completed during the year 12/2024 to 12/2025.

Correction Required: A staff person shall obtain an annual minimum of 12 clock hours of child care training. A facility person's record shall include records of training required by the Department.

Regulation: 3290.124(d)

Description: Written emergency plan posted

Noncompliance Area: The facility is lacking an emergency medical transportation plan posted in a conspicuous. location.

Correction Required: A written plan shall be conspicuously posted which identifies the means of transporting a child to emergency care and the facility staffing provisions in the event of an emergency. The plan must accompany a staff person who leaves the facility on an excursion with children.

Regulation: 3290.131(b)(2)/3290.182(1)

Description: Updated toddler/preschool health report: every 12 months/Initial and subsequent health assessments

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1, preschool aged, contains a health report that lacks a date and therefore is unable to determine if it was conducted during the previous 12-month period.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent to provide an updated health report at least every 12 months for an older toddler or preschool child. A child's record must contain initial and subsequent health reports.

Regulation: 3290.123(a)(1)

Description: Amount of fee

Noncompliance Area: The files for Child #1 and #3 included agreements which did not specify the amount of the fee to be charged per day or per week.

Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the amount of the fee to be charged per day or per week.

Regulation: 3290.124(b)(6)

Description: Insurance coverage information

Noncompliance Area: The Emergency Contact Form for Child #2 lacked the health insurance coverage policy number for the child.

Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include health insurance coverage and policy number for a child under a family policy or Medical Assistance benefits, if applicable.

Regulation: 3290.31(f)

Description: Age and training

Noncompliance Area: The files for Staff #1 and Staff #4, lacked documentation of the annual 12 clock hours of childcare training.

Correction Required: A staff person shall obtain an annual minimum of 12 clock hours of child care training.

Regulation: 3290.32(a)/3290.192(3)

Description: Comply with CPSL/CPSL information

Noncompliance Area: The files for Staff #3 and Staff #4, employed more than 45 days, contained a State Police clearance request and no completed state police clearance. The file for Staff #2 lacked a disclosure statement.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL. Facility Person #4 may not work in a childcare position at the facility.

Regulation: 3290.94(a)(1)

Description: Every 60 days

Noncompliance Area: Upon review of the facility's Fire Drill log, the following tests were observed to have been conducted more than 60 days apart: 2/21/23-4/24/23 (63 days), 6/20/23-8/24/23 (65 days), and 10/25/23-12/28/23 (64 days).

Correction Required: The operator or designated staff person who is responsible for compliance with this chapter shall conduct fire drills and ensure that fire drills are conducted at least once every 60 days.

Regulation: 3290.95(a)/3290.95(b)

Description: System in compliance/Operator or designated staff responsibility

Noncompliance Area: Upon review of the facility's 30-day fire testing documentation log, the following tests were observed to have been conducted more than 30 days apart: 3/21/23-4/24/23 (34 days), 9/22/23-10/25/23 (33 days), 11/22/23-12/28/23 (36 days), and 1/16/24-2/23/24 (38 days).

Correction Required: Fire detection devices or systems must be in compliance with standards established under section 1016(c) of the act (62 P.S. § 1016(c)). The operator or designated staff person who is responsible for compliance with this chapter shall ensure the requirements in § 3290.95(a) are met.

Regulation: 3290.151(a)

Description: Within 3 months, then 12 months

Noncompliance Area: The file for Staff #4 did not contain a health assessment.

Correction Required: A facility person providing direct care who comes into contact with the children or who works with food preparation shall have a health assessment on file at the facility.

Regulation: 3290.24(c)/3290.192(4)

Description: Training regarding plan/Required training

Noncompliance Area: The files for Staff #2, #3, and #4 did not contain documentation of the completion of emergency plan training in the past 12 months.

Correction Required: The operator shall assure that each facility person receives training regarding the emergency plan at the time of initial employment, on an annual basis and at the time of each plan update. The operator shall document the date of each training and the names of all facility persons who received the training. A facility person's record shall include records of training required by the Department.

Regulation: 3290.31(f)/3290.192(4)

Description: Age and training/Required training

Noncompliance Area: The files for Staff #3 and #4 did not contain documentation of 12 hours of training in the past year.

Correction Required: A staff person shall obtain an annual minimum of 12 clock hours of child care training. A facility person's record shall include records of training required by the Department.

Regulation: 3290.31(g)

Description: Age and training

Noncompliance Area: Staff Persons #3 and #4 have not completed the following required pre-service training within 90 days of their date of hire: Pediatric first aid/CPR from a PQAS approved trainer and a PQAS approved curriculum. Staff person #4 has not completed the following required pre-service training within 90 days of their date of hire: Health and Safety Basics Training.

Correction Required: Staff person shall complete professional development in the topics of 3290.31(g) (1-10) within 90 days of hire. Staff persons #3 and #4 will have until 04/25/2023 to complete the required training. Until such time as the required training has been completed, staff persons #3 and #4 must be supervised, when interacting with children, by a family childcare home staff person who has completed the required training related to this citation. If there are no staff available to supervise staff persons #3 and #4, staff persons #3 and #4 may not work in a child-care position at the facility.

Regulation: 3290.31(g)/3290.192(4)

Description: Age and training/Required training

Noncompliance Area: The files for Staff #1, #2, #3, and #4 did not contain the additional one-hour Health and Safety Basics training addendum required to be completed by 12/31/2023.

Correction Required: Staff persons shall complete professional development within 90 days of hire as listed in subsections (g)1-10. A facility person's record shall include records of training required by the Department.

Regulation: 3290.32(a)/3290.192(3)

Description: Comply with CPSL/CPSL information

Noncompliance Area: The file for Staff #4 contained an FBI Criminal History Clearance that is not accepted by our department. Staff #4 must obtain a completed DHS FBI Criminal History Clearance before she can return to work at the residence. The file for Household Member #6 did not contain a PA State Police, DHS Child Abuse, or FBI Clearance; nor did it contain a National Sex Offender Registry Verification.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL. Facility Person #4 and #6 may not work in a childcare position at the facility.

Regulation: 3290.74(a)

Description: Requirements

Noncompliance Area: In the bathroom used by children in care, two exposed, upwardly facing bolts were observed on each side of the base of the toilet. Contact with said bolts could result in puncture or laceration injuriy.

Correction Required: Floors, walls, ceilings and other surfaces, including the facility's outdoor play area, shall be kept clean, in good repair and free from visible hazards.

Regulation: 3290.95(a)/3290.95(b)

Description: System in compliance/Operator or designated staff responsibility

Noncompliance Area: The operator was unable to provide the proof of purchase for the wireless interconnected fire detection system.

Correction Required: Fire detection devices or systems must be in compliance with standards established under section 1016(c) of the act (62 P.S. § 1016(c))The operator or designated staff person who is responsible for compliance with this chapter shall ensure the requirements in § 3290.95(a) are met.

Noncompliance Area: In the playroom observed a cracked plastic food item that could result in a child being pinched.

Correction Required: Toys, play equipment and other indoor and outdoor equipment used by the children shall be clean, in good repair and free from rough edges, sharp corners, pinch and crush points, splinters and exposed bolts.

Noncompliance Area: The files for child #1 and child #2 did not contain documentation of a flu shot received during the previous 12 month period as recommended by the ACIP immunization schedule and did not contain an exemption.

Correction Required: The facility shall require the parent to provide updated written verification from a physician, physician's assistant, CRNP, the Department of Health or a local health department of ongoing vaccines administered to an infant, toddler or preschool child in accordance with the schedule recommended by the ACIP.

Noncompliance Area: Observed in the playroom a rusted heating vent that was accessible to the children in care.

Correction Required: Floors, walls, ceilings and other surfaces, including the facility's outdoor play area, shall be kept clean, in good repair and free from visible hazards.

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #3, a young toddler, does not contain an initial health report received within 60 days following the first day of enrollment. The file does contain a current health report.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent of an enrolled child, including a child, a foster child and a relative of an operator or a facility person, to provide an initial health report no later than 60 days following the first day of attendance at the facility.

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1, a preschool aged child, contains a current health report that was conducted more than 12 months after the previous health report. The file does contain a current health report.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent to provide an updated health report at least every 12 months for an older toddler or preschool child.

Noncompliance Area: The files for child #1 and child #2, both preschool aged, do not contain documentation of an influenza vaccination received in the previous 12 month period as required by the ACIP recommended schedule.

Correction Required: The facility shall require the parent to provide updated written verification from a physician, physician's assistant, CRNP, the Department of Health or a local health department of ongoing vaccines administered to an infant, toddler or preschool child in accordance with the schedule recommended by the ACIP.

Noncompliance Area: There is peeling and chipping paint on the fence around the swimming pool deck. The children walk beside this fence when entering and exiting the family child care home.

Correction Required: Peeled or damaged paint or damaged plaster is not permitted on indoor or outdoor surfaces in the child care facility.

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #2 contained an agreement that was not signed by the operator.

Correction Required: An agreement shall be signed by the operator and the parent.

Noncompliance Area: The agreement for child #2 did not include a fee amount.

Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the amount of the fee to be charged per day or per week.

Noncompliance Area: The files for child #1, #2 and #3 contained the original agreements.

Correction Required: A parent shall receive the original agreement. The facility shall retain a copy of the agreement.A child's record must contain a copy of the initial agreement and subsequent written agreements between the parent and the operator. The parent receives the original agreement.

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1 contains emergency contact information that does not include the addresses and phone numbers for the designated release persons.

Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include the name, address and telephone number of the individual designated by the parent to whom the child may be released.

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #3 contains an initial health report that was completed more than 60 days following the first day of attendance.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent of an enrolled child, including a child, a foster child and a relative of an operator or a facility person, to provide an initial health report no later than 60 days following the first day of attendance at the facility.

Noncompliance Area: It was observed that the diaper genie used to dispose of soiled diapers requires being opened by hand and requires the diaper to be pushed through the opening.

Correction Required: If disposable diapers are provided by a parent or by a facility, a soiled diaper shall be discarded by immediately placing the diaper into a plastic-lined, hands-free covered can.

Noncompliance Area: The file for staff person #1 does not contain a signed disclosure statement as required under CPSL.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL.

Noncompliance Area: Based on statements by the operator, during third shift care staff are sleeping on and off leaving the children unsupervised.

Correction Required: Children on the facility premises and on facility excursions off the premises shall be supervised by a staff person at all times. Outdoor play space used by the facility is considered part of the facility premises. The requirement for supervision on and off the facility premises includes compliance with the staff:child ratio requirements in 3290.51-3290.52 (relating to maximum number of children; and staff:child ratio).

Noncompliance Area: The file for child #1, preschool age, contained a most recent health report that was not updated within the previous 12 months.

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent to provide an updated health report at least every 12 months for an older toddler or preschool child.A child's record must contain initial and subsequent health reports.