Description: Smarty Gems Inc. is a Group Family Day Care in New Hyde Park NY, with a maximum capacity of 16 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of Total Capacity: 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children �(there must be one caregiver for every two children under the age of two years in attendance). The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-13 | 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. | |||
| 2019-08-13 | Violation | 416.11(i)(2) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Caregivers and volunteers must ensure that children thoroughly wash their hands or assist children with thoroughly washing their hands with soap and running water when they are dirty, after toileting, 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. | |||
| 2019-04-26 | 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 | |||
| 2019-04-26 | Violation | 416.11(h)(5)(i) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: For emergency medication to be administered to a child by provider not authorized to administer medication, there must be a written Individual Health Care Plan for the child. | |||
| 2019-04-26 | Violation | 416.11(h)(5)(ii) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: For emergency medication to be administered to a child by provider not authorized to administer medication, the child's health care provider must issue a standing order and prescription for the medication | |||
| 2019-01-07 | Violation | 416.11(c)(1) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The Licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all caregivers and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program's health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are those specified in 416.11(c) | |||
| 2019-01-07 | Violation | 416.14(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All assistants hired after the initial licensure of the home must complete a minimum of fifteen (15) hours of training during the first six months after becoming an assistant. In either case, this initial fifteen (15) hours applies toward the total thirty (30) hour minimum requirement for each two-year period. | |||
| 2019-01-07 | Violation | 416.15(c)(5) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Maintain on file the daily attendance records that are filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times | |||
| 2018-07-06 | 416.11(a)(1) | Corrected | |
| Brief Description: Other than children who are enrolled in kindergarten or a higher grade, no child may be accepted for care in a child care program unless the program has been furnished with a written statement signed by a health care provider verifying that the child is able to participate in child day care and currently appears to be free from contagious or communicable diseases. A child's medical statement must have been completed within the 12 months preceding the date of enrollment. | |||
| 2018-07-06 | 416.15(b)(11)(i) | Corrected | |
| Brief Description: A licensed program must notify the Office immediately in writing when there is any change of caregivers | |||
| 2018-07-06 | 416.7(v) | Corrected | |
| Brief Description: Television and other electronic visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity. | |||
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