Description: CYNTHIA'S GARDEN OF KNOWLEDGE is a Three Star Center License in WILSON NC, with a maximum capacity of 75 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 0 through 12. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.
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Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
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2023-08-24 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
2023-08-17 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
2023-08-17 | Violation | 115 | G.S. 110-102 |
A summary of the NC Child Care Law was not posted in a prominent place in the center. Documentation was not on file acknowledging the summary of law was reviewed and given to the parent of one child enrolled. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 201 | GS 110-91(6); .1401(f) |
A room was occupied by more children than the space allowed at 25-sq. ft. of floor space per child. Upon arrival twenty-three children were observed being cared for in Space #4 with a capacity of fourteen. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 301 | GS 110-91(7);.0713(a-e) |
Minimum staff/child ratios and group sizes for the number and ages of children in care were not met. Minimum staff/child ratio requirements were not met when one caregiver was observed providing care to twenty-three children ranging from ages three to five years old in Space #4. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 316 | 10A NCAC 09 .0713(a)(5) |
Children under one year of age were not kept separate from children two years and older. Two infants ages four and six months were grouped with a two-year-old child in Space 1A. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 609 | 15A NCAC 18A .2803(a) |
Staff did not wash their hands thoroughly before beginning work, before/after handling food, before bottle feeding or serving to other children, after toileting or handling body fluids, after diaper changing and after handling soiled items. One child’s hands was not washed upon arrival in Space #1B. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 807 | 10A NCAC 09 .0601(a) |
A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Staff purses/bags were observed in an unlocked closet in Space #2 and on a cubby in Space #3, a plastic cubed play structure on the playground was cracked exposing sharp edges, a metal rake was on the playground in space accessible to children and roots were protruding above ground posing tripping hazards. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 1232 | 10A NCAC 09 .0514(f) |
Each employee's personnel file did not contain an annual staff evaluation and a staff development plan. An annual evaluation was not on file for one employee with a hire date of 11/16/2021. | |||
2023-08-17 | Violation | 1323 | 10A NCAC 09 .0302(d)(2) |
Each child was not immunized as per Article 6 of Chapter 130A and an immunization record was not on file before or within 30 days after admission. An immunization record was not on file for one preschool child enrolled on August 10, 2022. | |||
2023-03-02 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
2023-03-02 | Violation | 618 | 15A NCAC 18A .2819(b) |
Diaper changing surfaces were not kept free of storage. Toys and clothes were observed on the diaper changing table in Space #3. | |||
2023-03-02 | Violation | 807 | 10A NCAC 09 .0601(a) |
A safe indoor and outdoor environment was not provided for the children. Two buckets red and blue in color were cracked exposing sharp edges on the playground and sanitizer/disinfectant spray bottles were sitting in a basket on top of a cubby below 5ft. from the floor in Space #2. | |||
2023-03-02 | Violation | 812 | 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) |
Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Electrical outlets not in use in Spaces #1b and Space #1 in Building 2 were not covered with safety plugs. | |||
2023-03-02 | Violation | 840 | .2820(b) |
All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. A bottle of liquid whiteout was observed on a cubby below 5ft. in Space #2. |
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