Description: Kids Connection Learning Center, LLC, has created an environment where teachers support the nurturing and learning your child needs. We are hands-on owners who offer a personal interest in your family's childcare decisions, where each child's natural curiosity and creativity are developed. Kids Connection is dedicated to providing the foundation to encourage your child's lifelong love of learning. In order to accomplish these goals, Kids Connection will: Offer a wide range of enriching activities to meet the needs of each child. Focus on building a strong and balanced foundation of emotional, social, cognitive, and physical skills for each child. Offer multi-cultural and developmentally appropriate materials and equipment. Provide a safe and secure environment. Conduct regular Quality Assurance audits and parent surveys. Offer continuing education for on-going development of our teachers and directors. Offer open communication with parents in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.
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.
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.123(a)(4) - Arrival/departure times | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, CHILD 4 AGREEMENT FORM DID NOT STATE THE ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE TIMES ON THE FORM. Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the child's arrival and departure times. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Information was added to agreement form. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.124(b)(2) - Physician name, address, phone | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, CHILD 2 EMERGENCY CONTACT FORM DID NOT STATE THE PHYSICIAN PHONE NUMBER ON THE FORM. Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include the name, address and telephone number of the child's physician or source of medical care. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Information was added to emergency contact form. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.151(a)/3270.192(3) - 12 months prior to service and every 24 months thereafter/Health assessment, TB test | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, STAFF 4 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN A PHYSICAL. STAFF 1 AND 3 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN VERIFICATION TB HAS BEEN CONDUCTED. 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 conducted within 12 months prior to providing initial service in a child care setting and every 24 months thereafter. A health assessment is valid for 24 months following the date of signature, if the person does not contract a communicable disease or develop a medical problem.A facility person's record shall include a written report of initial and subsequent health assessments, including the results of initial and subsequent tuberculin skin tests, x-rays or other medical documentation necessary to confirm freedom from communicable tuberculosis. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Staff 4 is no longer employed as of 10-19-2020. Staff 1 attached vertication was located and added to physical. Staff 3 ... their TB vertication was located and attached to new physical. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.192(2)(i) - Age | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, STAFF 3 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN VERIFICATION OF AGE IN THEIR FILE. Correction Required: A facility person's record shall include verification of age. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Staff 3's license was copied and added to the staff file. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.27(c) - Training regarding plan | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, STAFF 3 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN VERIFICATION OF BEING TRAINED IN THE EMERGENCY PLAN. 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 and kept on file at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Document was located and put in the correct spot in staff file. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4) - Comply with CPSL/CPSL information | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, STAFF 4 FILE CONTAINED A VOLUNTEER DISCLOSURE, AND SHE IS NOT A VOLUNTEER. STAFF 3 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN 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 #--- may not work in a child care position at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Staff 4 is no longer employed at Kids Connection Learning Center as of 10-19-2020. Staff signed a Disclosure statement and it was added to the staff file. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.34(b)/3270.192(2)(iv) - Director qualifications/Transcript, diploma and letters | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/14/20, STAFF 3 FILE DID NOT CONTAIN VERIFICATION FOR THE POSITION THEY HELD AS A DIRECTOR IN THEIR FILE. Correction Required: A director shall have attained one of the following qualification levels specified at 3270.34(b)(1) - (4). A facility person's record shall include acceptable verification of experience, education or training is a transcript or a diploma or a letter signed by a representative of the experiential, educational or training entity. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Awarded associates degree was added to staff file as well as official transcript' s. |
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| 2020-10-14 | Renewal | 3270.66(a) - Locked or inaccessible | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE VIRTUAL INSPECTION ON 10/21/20, THERE WAS TOXIC (DESITIN) IN THE INFANT ROOM ACCESSIBLE TO CHILDREN IN AN UNLOCKED AREA, CAUSING A POTENTIAL HAZARD TO CHILDREN. Correction Required: Cleaning materials and other toxic materials shall be kept in an area or container that is locked or made inaccessible to children. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Desitin was removed from changing table and relocated to the lock box in the storage cabinet. A changing table lock was lock was secured on the doors of the changing table. |
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| 2020-03-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.52 - Mixed Age Level | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION ON 3/9/20, OBSERVED 14 YOUNG TODDLERS AND OLDER TODDLERS CHILDREN WITH TWO TEACHERS WHILE THE THIRD STAFF LEFT THE CLASSROOM. Correction Required: When children are grouped in mixed age levels, the age of the youngest child in the group determines the staff:child ratio and maximum group size in accordance with the requirements in 3270.51 (relating to similar age level). |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The teacher involved with this violation has been reminded of the need to maintain ratio per state required standards on the date the violation occurred. All employees have recently been reminded of the importance of maintaining proper ratio standards. This includes when the need arises to leave their classrooms for any reason. |
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| 2019-12-24 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.113(a) - Supervised at all times | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE UNANNOUNCED MONITORING ON 12/24/19, OBSERVED CHILD ONE LEAVE THE PLAY YARD AND GO INSIDE ALONE WITHOUT SUPERVISION. 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. TIERED LIS: Children must be supervised at all times. The legal entity must arrange for all facility staff to receive a minimum of two hours of training regarding supervision of children. The legal entity must receive DHS approval of the training content prior to scheduling the training. The legal entity must submit documentation in a format approved by DHS proving that the facility procedure for counting children is followed at all times e.g., a checklist. The legal entity will confirm continuing compliance by sending copies of the documentation to the Regional Office of Child Development and Early Learning on a weekly basis for a period of three months after DHS approves the documentation format. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The employee in question was counselled by management immediately after this occurred. The employee was reminded of the need to have constant supervision of all children and not allow any child to leave her group without a teacher. Further disciplinary action will be given if this regulation is not adhered to. |
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| 2019-12-24 | Complaints- Legal Location | 3270.136(b) - Parent info communicable diseases | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the complaint investigation on 12/24/19, the facility has not been informing all of the parents of the facility of outbreaks that have occurred. Correction Required: The operator shall inform parents of enrolled children when there is a suspected outbreak of a communicable disease or an outbreak of an unusual illness that represents a public health emergency in the opinion of the Department of Health. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) We will now inform all parents within our school enrollment when there is a suspected outbreak of a communicable disease or unusual illness. Our communication system has been changed to a modern system that will allow for such contact with relative ease. |
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| 2019-12-24 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.25(b) - Post the inspection summary | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION ON 12/24/19, THE LATEST INSPECTION SUMMARY DATED 10/30/19 WAS NOT POSTED IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION. Correction Required: The operator shall post a copy of each inspection summary issued by the Department in a conspicuous location used by parents. The inspection summary shall remain posted until an agent of the Department verifies that each regulatory noncompliance item cited on the inspection summary has been corrected. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The original copy of inspection summary dated 30 Oct 2019 that was placed in our facility vestibule was found to be missing upon inspection. This copy was printed again and hung back where it was originally placed. |
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| 2019-12-24 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4) - Comply with CPSL/CPSL information | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: CRIMINAL HISTORY/FBI CLEARANCE FOR STAFF #1 CONTAINS A CHARGE WITH AN UNREPORTED DISPOSITION. A DISPOSITION FOR EACH CRIME IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ASSESS COMPLIANCE WITH THE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES (CPS) LAW AND 55 PA CODE CHAPTER 20. STAFF 1 WAS STILL EMPLOYED AND WORKING AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION. CONTINUE NON COMPLIANCE FROM SIN 00165482. Correction Required: STAFF1 DID NOT OBTAIN DISPOSITION OF CHARGES WITHIN 30 DAYS. STAFF 1 MUST BE REMOVED FROM CHILDCARE POSITION AT FACILITY. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Ownership contacted the out of state court clerk telephonically in order to ascertain a court disposition for the employee's original arrest for driving without a valid license. The court clerk explained that there was no disposition as the employee failed to show for court and a warrant had been issued for her arrest. The court was not going to extradite the employee from the state of PA, however, would use the warrant to make an arrest if the employee was stopped by law enforcement in said state. Consequently, the warrant, and court disposition, remain in an "inactive" status. Based on the guidance of our OCDEL representative, the employee was immediately terminated until she resolves her court disposition. |
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| 2019-12-24 | Complaints- Legal Location | 3270.34(a) - Director responsibilities | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE COMPLAINT INVESTIGATION ON 12/24/19, INFORMED DIRECTOR DOES NOT PERFORM DUTIES. Correction Required: A director is responsible for the general management of the facility, including the minimum duties described at 3270.34(a)(1) - (6). |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) A new full-time director has been put in place. This director, who has previous director experience, was provided with a copy of PA Code 3270.34(a)(1) - (6). |
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| 2019-10-30 | Renewal | 3270.106(a) - Clean, age appropriate | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: DURING THE RENEWAL INSPECTION ON 10/30/19, OBSERVED A CHILD SLEEPING ON A LABEDED COT THAT DID NOT BELONG TO THAT CHILD. OBSERVED COTS IN THE TODDLER TWO ROOM NOT LABELED. OBSERVED AN INFANT ON A COT THAT WAS NOT AGE APPROPRIATE FOR INFANTS. Correction Required: Individual, clean, age-appropriate rest equipment shall be provided for preschool, toddler and infant children as agreed between the child's parent and the operator. The rest equipment shall be labeled for the use of a specific child and used only by the specified child. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) All cots that are being used for children have been labeled and will be checked daily to insure labeling was not removed. Children will only sleep on their assigned cots. |
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