Description: Southern Maryland Christian Academy Infant and Toddler Center is a Licensed Child Care Center in White Plains MD, with a maximum capacity of 6 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 6 weeks through 17 months, 18 months through 23 months, 2 years. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-21 | Full | 13A.16.03.06A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: The OCC was not notified of staff member, HH's departure. The principal completed and submitted a 1203 for HH during the inspection. | |||
| 2023-11-21 | Full | 13A.16.09.01A(7) | Corrected |
| Findings: The Licensing Specialist noted that the written schedule of daily activities did not include outdoor play. Morning (am) outdoor play and afternoon (pm) outdoor play were added to the written schedule of daily activities during the inspection. | |||
| 2023-11-21 | Full | 13A.16.09.02B(3) | Corrected |
| Findings: The Licensing Specialist noted that the written individualized activity plans did not have a staff member assigned to each infant and toddler. The children in the infant and toddler classroom were assigned to a staff member during the inspection. | |||
| 2023-11-21 | Full | 13A.16.10.03A | Corrected |
| Findings: The Licensing Specialist observed a miniature plastic slide in the infant and toddler classroom. The infant and toddler teacher shared that the slide has been utilized indoors. Although the infant and toddler classroom has a carpet, all outdoor equipment shall be utilized in the fenced in area with grass to ensure that there is plenty of resilient surfacing. During the inspection the principal provided the Licensing Specialist with a written statement explaining that the slide will only be used outside. | |||
| 2023-11-21 | Full | 13A.16.10.04A | Corrected |
| Findings: The Licensing Specialist observed a bin of hazardous products which included baby shampoo, baby bubble bath, baby powder, and several tubes of diaper rash ointment on the shelf of the diapering station. The doors of the diapering station had a safety mechanism installed, but it was not being utilized. The bin of hazardous products were relocated and made inaccessible to the children in care during the inspection. | |||
| 2022-11-29 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.06.05C(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: The director, CJ needs to obtain 6 clock hours of continued training to fulfill the 12 clock hour requirement which was due by October 2022. Please have CJ take 6 clock hours of training as soon as possible and forward a copy of her certificate to the Office of Child Care. | |||
| 2022-11-29 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.07.06C | Corrected |
| Findings: The Licensing Specialist received HH's Release of Information on site during the inspection. Please refer to COMAR 13A.16.02.01I which explains that a staff member shall not have access to a child in care until the individual has successfully passed the child abuse and neglect clearance (Release of Information) and a federal or State criminal background check. | |||
| 2022-11-29 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.08.02B | Corrected |
| Findings: Aide, HH and bible teacher, EC are not qualified to care for the infants when the director, CJ is on her break. The director plans to have a qualified teacher (TB) from the before and after care program cover CJ's break. Please send an updated staffing pattern to the Office of Child Care displaying that TB or another qualified infant teacher takes the place of CJ when she is on her break. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Conversion | 13A.16.03.03A(2) | Corrected |
| Findings: Program is utilizing "daily sheets", but they are not being completed as required. Some were missing time out times and others were missing parent signatures. These daily sheets should be completely filled out on a daily basis in order to ensure the whereabouts of each child in attendance at all times and parent verification of attendance. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Conversion | 13A.16.03.04C | Corrected |
| Findings: Upon review of the records, child, AC, was missing her physician information. Since the parent works on site, it was able to be corrected during the inspection. Please ensure that the emergency cards are filled out in their entirety. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Conversion | 13A.16.03.04G | Corrected |
| Findings: Upon review of child records, it is noted that neither female child, EB, or male child, EB, (siblings) have the required amount of immunizations for their respective ages. Female EB is missing four (4) vaccinations while male EB is missing eight (8) vaccinations respective to their age. The male child, EB, has not had at least one dose of DTAP, Polio, Hib or Prevnar. According to G(2) of this regulation, he should have had at least one dose of each of these before being admitted to the Center for care. At the time of the inspection, the Center could not provide any evidence that he is scheduled for any immunizations. Please have the parent rectify the lack of proper immunizations for both children as soon as possible. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Mandatory Review | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found | |||
| 2020-11-13 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.08.02D(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: There is only one infant-qualified staff member in the room. When that qualified staff takes a break, there is no one other than a non-qualified staff member available. The Center has stated that EC covers the teacher's breaks. EC is not infant teacher-qualified. Center must have an infant teacher cover the break. | |||
| 2020-11-13 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.09.04A(4)(a) | Corrected |
| Findings: During the inspection, none of the three cribs had tight fitting sheets. All three appeared to be to be too big for the mattress. Center should ensure that each crib has an appropriately fitting sheet on each crib's mattress. | |||
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