Description: KinderAcademy Learning Centers of Pittsburgh have quickly become leading examples of extraordinary child care offerings in the local West Pittsburgh areas. Our reputable child care centers are focused on nurturing and teaching children to care, share, and love. The best part is that while your child is under our care, we will use that time to teach basic fundamental strategies to set him/her up for future success.
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| 2020-10-19 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.151(a) - 12 months prior to service and every 24 months thereafter | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #1 had a previous health assessment dated 6-9-18 and a current health assessment dated 10-1-20. 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. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The employee was unable to schedule a physical prior to the due date due to Covid. Ongoing we will require staff to obtain physicals at Urgent Care or walk in clinics if their PCP cannot make appts timely. |
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| 2020-10-19 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.32(a) - Comply with CPSL | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #1 had a previous child abuse clearance dated 9-26-14 and a current child abuse clearance dated 10-1-20. Staff person #1 had a current FBI clearance dated 9-4-14. Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). Facility Person # 1 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.) Employee had applied for a new clearance and had receipt and proof of applying but the actual clearance was not in her file. We removed her from the schedule and had the state send a new copy of it. We also had her reapply for a new one. She has since received her new one and it is in her file. We will ensure all clearances are applied for and received and in file. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.133(5) - Original label | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: There was a child's epinephrine medication in Classroom 2 C that was expired. Correction Required: Medication shall be stored in accordance with the manufacturer's or health professional's instructions on the original label. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Because of our mandated closure due to Covid 19, a medication had expired for a child. We contacted the parent for permission to discard the expired medication and the parent replaced it will a non expired one. We have set up a system to track all expiration dates for any medication in the facility. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.133(6) - Written consent | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: There was no written consent from the parent for a child's gas drop medication in the infant room. There was no written consent from the parent for a child's epinephrine medication in Classroom 2-C. Correction Required: A parent shall provide written consent for administration of medication or a special diet. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) In both instances, we had a doctor's note for the child to receive the medication and an email from the parent requesting it, but did not have an actual signature. We will continue to require doctor's notes for medication administration and dosage, but will ensure the parent signature is on every page of each medication log used for recording that medication. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.151(a) - 12 months prior to service and every 24 months thereafter | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #1 had a most recent health assessment dated 8-22-18. 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. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Due to Covid 19 restrictions, the staff member was not able to get an appt at her PCP prior to her physical needing renewed. Her appt was was scheduled for after. We will now notify staff of health assessment expiration dated 3 months prior to ensure adequate time to schedule an appt. If a staff member is unable to get an appt with their regular PCP, we will require that they obtain a physical at an urgent care type of facility to ensure there is no lapse because of scheduling. The employee is no longer working for the company. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.31(e)(4)(ii) - Fire safety - 1 yr. | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #2 had a previous fire safety training dated 9-10-18 and a current fire safety training dated 10-21-19. Correction Required: Staff persons shall participate, at least annually, in firesafety training conducted by a fire protection professional. Staff persons and volunteers shall receive training in maintenance of smoke detectors, the duties of facility persons during a fire drill and during a fire and the use of the facility's fire extinguishers, not including discharge of the fire suppressant agent. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The staff member was out on medical leave during the time her training expired. Because she was on leave, she missed the training class our center does annually. We will now offer an online training for anyone unable to attend an in person training. We will also ensure any staff member who was on leave will complete any required trainings prior to returning to a classroom. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.32(a)/3270.192(2)(iii) - Comply with CPSL/Exp, educ., training at facility | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #2 had a previous mandated reporter training dated 12-29-14 and a current mandated reporter training dated 1-16-20. Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services).A facility person's record shall include verification of child care experience, education and training following the outset of service at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The staff member was out on medical leave during the time her training expired. Because she was on leave, she missed the training class our center does annually. We will now offer an online training for anyone unable to attend an in person training. We will also ensure any staff member who was on leave will complete any required trainings prior to returning to a classroom. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.75(c) - Has all items | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: A first aid kit in the Pre-K room lacked gauze pads. Correction Required: A first-aid kit must contain the following: soap, an assortment of adhesive bandages, sterile gauze pads, tweezers, tape, scissors and disposable, nonporous gloves. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Regulations require a first aid kit in each classroom. We keep two in each room, one that permanently stays in the room and one that is transported with children to the playground. When the kits were restocked, all of the gauze pads were placed in one kit in error, leaving one without. The gauze pads were immediately placed in the first aid kit. We have since created a checklist for each kit for checking and restocking to ensure all kits have the necessary item at all times. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.82(g) - Clean and good repair | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: The toilet seat on one of the toilets in the older toddler bathroom had broken off causing a plastic bolt to protrude outward from the base of the toilet into the seating area of the toilet. The base of the faucet on one of the sinks in Classroom C-1 was broken and cracked causing sharp edges to be accessible to the children. Correction Required: Toilet areas and fixtures shall be cleaned daily and be in good repair. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Our center's toddler restroom has 2 child sized toilets. When one became cracked, we removed the seat to prevent any injury. When we went to purchase a replacement, it had to be special ordered and took a week to receive. During this time, we closed off this toilet for use by children. We have ordered an additional toilet seat to have on hand should another break. This will prevent any wait time for repairs due to special orders. We replaced the cracked faucet with a new one. We added to our site safety review to check toilet areas and faucets. |
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| 2020-06-24 | Renewal | 3270.91(c) - Door opens in at landing | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: The exit door in the rear of the older toddler room near the kitchenette area was obstructed with a filled garbage bag, a step stool and a plastic basket. The exit door to the outside in the infant room was obstructed partially by a toy bin positioned on the floor in front of the door. Correction Required: If a door or doorway opens or exits directly into a stairwell and if there is no landing beyond the door or doorway, the door shall be restricted from opening or shall be removed and a secure barrier to prevent access to the stairwell shall be erected. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) During the time of the inspection, a staff member was cleaning/reorganizing an area in our kitchen causing the partial obstruction of the exit door (this room does have two emergency exits). In our infant room, on the same wall as the emergency exit, we have a soft padded play space with padded toy bin. The padded play area shifted and was partially blocking the emergency exit. We have since secured the padding to the floor so it does not move. In both instances, the exits were immediately cleared and we have also added signage to the doors to remind staff to keep the doors free of obstructions. |
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| 2019-10-22 | Complaints- Legal Location | 3270.183(b) - No information disclosed | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Staff person #1 disclosed information regarding Child #1 and Child #2 to another individual without permission of the children's parent. Correction Required: A facility person may not disclose information concerning a child or family, except in the course of inspections and investigations by agents of the Department. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) Now and in the future, staff persons will attain written permission to disclose information about children and/or their family versus verbal permission if and only if requested by family. |
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| 2019-06-12 | Renewal | 3270.102(a) - Clean and good repair | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: There was a soft block in Room 2A that had a torn plastic cover. 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. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The soft block has been removed from room 2A. Now and in the future all classroom materials and environment will be corrected to align with DHS regulations. |
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| 2019-06-12 | Renewal | 3270.123(a)(4) - Arrival/departure times | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: The agreements on file for Child #1, #2, #3,#4, #5, #6,#7,#8, #9 and #10 do not include the child's arrival and departure times. 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.) The agreements for Child 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 have been corrected, adding arrival and departure times. In the future, all items will be entirely completed at time of completion. |
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| 2019-06-12 | Renewal | 3270.123(a)(6)/3270.182(2) - Admission date/Application, admission, withdrawal dates | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: The agreement on file for Child #1 and #7 did not include the child's date of enrollment. Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the date of the child's admission.A child's record shall contain the dates of application, admission and withdrawal of the child. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) The agreements for Child 1 and Child 7 have been corrected, adding dates of enrollment. In the future, all items will be entirely completed at time of completion. |
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| 2019-06-12 | Renewal | 3270.123(b)/3270.182(8) - Parent receives original/Copy of initial and subsequent agreements. Parent receives original. | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: The agreements on file for Child #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10 are the original agreement. The parent is to receive the original. Correction Required: A parent shall receive the original agreement. The facility shall retain a copy of the agreement.A child's record shall contain a copy of the initial agreement and subsequent written agreements between the parent and the operator. The parent receives the original agreement. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more
information.) All agreements will be sent home and copies will remain in files. Moving forward, at enrollment, copies will be filed and originals will be given to the parents. |
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If it were possible to give negative stars I would! This place is awful! Unless you want the director of the facility trying to sleep w your husband/partner I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone!! The place is run by nothing but trashy two faced people that don’t care one bit about you or your child or family. The money is all they care about. My child has come home with SEVERAL injuries from this daycare center and it’s negligent staff. They were shut down for a period of time due to them employing workers that have CHILD ABUSE CHARGES , this person was working with AND abusing the children. There was a big lawsuit, Google it. Do your research!! Any place is better than kinder academy !
Glad my kid is out of there. After I saw, first hand, what these people are, I wouldn't send my pet there. What a bunch of incompetent, two-faced, disingenuous people. Just because it's clean, doesn't mean it's the best place for your kid. Do your research.
Lack of integrity by owner and manager. Place took a turn for the worse when new "manager" came in. Understaffed and lack of common sense here. It's clean, but not worth it. Only care about your money. Period. Go anywhere else.
About as UNPROFESSIONAL a business as I have ever seen. The only good thing about this daycare is that it's open at 6:00. "Manager" is extremely rude and unprofessional and has poor judgement. This place cares about your money and their star rating-PERIOD. Well, my star rating for this place is a one. Understaffed, dangerous parking lot, overcrowding and unprofessionalism is what you get here. Do your research and look elsewhere. I regret giving these people any of my money.
as of late like in the past 6 months no learning projects no more abc's, numbers,ect... so many employees go thru there. no professional help. mothers of kids working there. kid can't get along with a teacher! comes home crying. even when u confront her just a bad attitude. owner is trying but just seams to me she is just overwhelmed with the incompetents of the people she hired. they need to learn and now i'm not seeing it.
I enrolled my child in this center over a year ago and have had nothing but great experiences with the staff and ownership! Due to circumstances out of the owners control, two centers merged into one and I haven't noticed a change in care at all. It actually allowed my child to be placed with more children on the same level. They have had some turnover with teachers, but it is not more than any other center I have seen. I love the fact that my child is engaged in different activities every day that has helped to prepare for upcoming kindergarten. I would highly recommend this center to anyone looking for quality care for their child!
My child was at this center for a few years before we decided to pull out after the merger of both centers. Initially this was a center i felt secure with I loved the staff but after the merger everything changed. Behaviors in my child, lack of communication, and overall dissatisfaction from the classroom staff. What i felt was once a center based on my child's individual needs turned into what was most profitable to the business. Children should be the number one concern, not how many kids can be squeezed into one room.
TERRIBLE OWNERSHIP!!!!... My experience at Kinder Academy started off decent but quickly went downhill. The number one priority of this place is NOT your children, instead it is money. Ever since the two locations have "merged" the place has been a chaotic environment, especially for the kids. There are WAY too many children in each room and not enough staff. The children DO NOT get the attention they need/deserve. I have felt uncomfortable dropping my kid off here multiple times because they are consistently out of ratio. I have also noticed that they cannot keep their staff... For the most part the girls here are nice but for some reason it seems as though they are quitting left and right. Now for me, I want my child around familiar/consistent faces, not strangers. I am so happy that I left this center and I would NOT recommend it to anyone!! I'm sure this center will slowly be shut down anyway just like their other location. Save your money, save the headache and definitely look elsewhere.
At first the place was above and beyond our expectations. Still happy with most of the staff, but ownership is horrible. They care about 1 thing and as a parent you would hope it would be your child; its not, its money. This ownership already had to "merge" or "lost" their other center... I don't believe this center will last much longer as well. We had enough after over 20% tuition increase since first enrollment due to whatever reason they seen fit; says so in the contract. And boy did they exercise it more than once. Never believe what comes out of their mouths because they can and will change whatever agreement you thought you had with them. Stay away is my advice, never again even if it was the last place available. I'd quite my excellent job before sending my kids back.
I have been sending my children to kinder academy since they opened the Robinson center. After an okay experience with other childcares I decided to shop around while pregnant with my second child. I couldn't be happier with my decision. The center is always clean, the staff is over qualified and highly educated but most importantly caring . They never seem to be short staffed as the previous poster had suggested. Everything has always seemed clean and organized when I've been there. Most importantly my children are noticeably loved and cared for. As far as the staff turn over ... They have quiet a few staff members that have been with the center since it opened and my kids started there. And based on childcare experiences no amount of turnover that isn't what seems to be normal in the business.
My grandson goes there and they take good care of him. Some issues nothing that wasn't worked out. The place is clean. I have been in some local places and wow the filth. The employee turn over rate seams high but don't think it's different other places. Hard job that probably does not pay that well.