Description: Hercules Blessing Day Care Inc. is a Group Family Day Care in Central Islip NY, with a maximum capacity of 16 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: This facility is authorized to administer medications;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 | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2026-I-LIRO-034313 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2026-04-20 | Violation | 413.3(g)(3)(i) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The Office shall require the child day care program to immediately post upon receipt, in a prominent place at the program that is visible to parents, a copy of the most recent compliance history report issued to the program by the Office. | |||
| 2026-04-20 | Violation | 416.5(j) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All matches, lighters, medicines, drugs, detergents, aerosol cans and other poisonous or toxic materials must be stored in their original containers, and must be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a place inaccessible to children. | |||
| 2026-02-02 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2026-I-LIRO-015429 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2026-02-02 | Violation | 416.11(a)(2) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The written medical statement from the health care provider must also state whether the child is a child with special health care needs and, if so, what special provisions, if any, will be necessary in order for the child to participate in child day care. When the written statement from the health care provider advises the day care program that the child being enrolled is a child with special health care needs, the day care program must work together with the parent and the child's health care provider to develop a reasonable health care plan for the child while the child is in the child care program. The health care plan for the child must also address how the day care program will obtain or develop any additional competencies that the caregivers will need to have in order to carry out the health care plan for the child. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Complaint (Substantiated) | Complaint (Substantiated) | 2025-I-LIRO-120407 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.3(o) | Not Corrected |
| Brief Description: All residences used for group family day care homes must remain in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State, or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire and Building Code of New York State is not applicable. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.5(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.7(u) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: If television or other electronic visual media is used, it must be part of a planned developmentally appropriate program with an educational, social, physical or other learning objective that includes identified goals and objectives. Television and other electronic visual media must not be used solely to occupy time. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.8(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a caregiver's range of vision except as provided in section 416.8(b) of this Part and that the caregiver be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age, emotional, physical and cognitive development. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.11(i)(1) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Caregivers and volunteers must thoroughly wash their hands with soap and running water at the beginning of each day, before and after the administration of medications, when they are dirty, after toileting or assisting children with toileting, after changing a diaper, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.11(i)(23) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The premises must be kept free of vermin. | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.15(c)(5) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection daily attendance records that are filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; | |||
| 2025-12-15 | Violation | 416.15(c)(6) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection children's individual health care plans; parental consents for emergency medical treatment; child's medical statement, immunizations, and any available results of lead screening for children not yet enrolled in kindergarten or a higher grade only; the name and dosage of any medications used by a child, the frequency of administration of such medications, and a record of their administration by caregivers; daily health check documentation; a record of illnesses and injuries occurring while in care; and any indicators of child abuse or maltreatment; | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2025-I-LIRO-117701 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited for this Inspection | |||
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