Description: LITTLE SPROUTS is a Child Care Center in SCHUYLKILL HAVEN PA, with a maximum capacity of 41 children. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.
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| 2019-12-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.123(a)(6) - Admission date | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, children #1, #2, #4 and #5 do not have admission dates on the agreements. When Rep returned on 12/9/19 to verify corrections, child #1 had an admission date on the fee agreement but children #2, #4 and #5 still did not have admission dates on the agreements. Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the date of the child's admission. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Admission dates have been added to the agreement pages. I will make sure each paper is signed to add the start date. |
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| 2019-12-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.124(b)(6) - Insurance coverage information | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, Children #3 & #4 do not have health insurance information on the emergency contact information form. When Rep returned on 12/9/19 to verify corrections, Child #3 had disenrolled and child #4 did not have health insurance information on emergency contact information. Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include health insurance coverage and policy number for a child under a family policy or Medical Assistance benefits, if applicable. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Emergency contact papers have been highlighted with areas that need to be filled out by a parent in order for child to start. The child that needed this information has been completed and filed. |
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| 2019-12-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.124(e) - Written emergency plan posted | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, a written plan for transporting a child for emergency medical care is not posted in the child care spaces or in the excursion bag. When Rep returned on 12/9/19 to verify corrections, a written plan for transporting children for medical care was not posted in the each child care space and excursion bag. Correction Required: A written plan identifying the means of transporting a child to emergency care and staffing provisions in the event of an emergency shall be displayed conspicuously in every child care space and shall accompany a staff person who leaves on an excursion with children. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) The plan will be hung near the information board in the entrance to the center. They will also be posted in the rooms. |
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| 2019-12-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.182(3)/3270.182(5) - Consent for emergency medical care required prior to admission/Consent for administration of minor first-aid required prior to admission | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, children #3 & #5 do not have signed parental consent for emergency medical care or administration of minor first aid. When Rep returned on 12/9/19 to verify corrections, child #3 had disenrolled and child #5 did not have signed parental consent for emergency medical care and administration of minor first aid. Correction Required: A child's record shall contain signed parental consent for emergency medical care for the child. Written consent is required prior to admission.A child's record shall contain signed parental consent for administration of minor first-aid procedures by facility staff. Written consent is required prior to admission. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Parents have signed the consents. I will make sure to double check for parents' signatures in all areas. The papers have highlighted areas to make sure this does not happen. |
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| 2019-12-09 | Unannounced Monitoring | 3270.36(b)(5)/3270.192(2)(ii) - HS/GED + 2 yrs/Exp, educ., training prior to facility | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, Facility person #1 is employed as an AGS and has a HS diploma on file but does not have 2 years of experience with children documented on file. When Rep returned on 12/9/19 to verify corrections, Facility person #2 still did not have proof of 2 years of experience with children on file. Correction Required: An assistant group supervisor shall have a high school diploma or a general educational development certificate and 2 years experience with children.A facility person's record shall include verification of child care experience, education and training prior to service at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility person #1 now has proof of 2 yrs experience on file. I will be sure to make a double check to see if there is 2 years of experience before staff members start working. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.111(b) - Posted in group space | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Written plan odf daily activities are not posted in child care spaces. Correction Required: The written plan of daily activities shall be posted in the group space. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will post plan of daily activities in each child care space. Plans will remain posted. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.113(a)(2) - Supervision on and facility premises | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28, Rep observed 2 staff persons in the toddler classroom with 12 mixed age toddlers. One staff had a group of 6 young toddlers. One young toddler had come from the infant room to work on a project. Correction Required: The requirement for supervision on and off the facility premises includes compliance with the staff:child ratio requirements in 3270.51--3270.55. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) One young toddler was reassigned back to the infant room with one staff and one other infant. In the future, supervision groups will meet required staff:child ratios |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.123(a) - Signed | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Child #1 has an agreement that is signed by the parent but not by the operator. Correction Required: An agreement shall be signed by the operator and the parent. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator signed agreement during inspection. In the future Director will sign all agreements and will check fir completeness before filing. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.123(a)(6) - Admission date | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Children #1, #2, #4 and #5 do not have admission dates on the agreements. Correction Required: An agreement shall specify the date of the child's admission. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will complete admission dates for these children and make sure this is completed when the child begins |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.124(b)(6) - Insurance coverage information | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Children #3 & #4 do not have health insurance information on the emergency contact information form. Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include health insurance coverage and policy number for a child under a family policy or Medical Assistance benefits, if applicable. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will have parent supply insurance information. Director will highlight these areas and check for completeness before filing. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.124(e) - Written emergency plan posted | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: A written plan for transporting a child for emergency medical care is not posted in the child care spaces or in the excursion bag. Correction Required: A written plan identifying the means of transporting a child to emergency care and staffing provisions in the event of an emergency shall be displayed conspicuously in every child care space and shall accompany a staff person who leaves on an excursion with children. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will post the plan in all child care spaces and place in the excursion bag. This will remain posted. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.131(a) - Within 60 days | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Children ## & #4 do not have initial health reports on file and have been attending for more that 60 days. Both children do have immunization records on file. Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent of an enrolled child, including a child, a foster child and a relative of an operator or a facility person, to provide an initial health report no later than 60 days following the first day of attendance at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will obtain current health reports for children #3 & #4. In the future initial health reports will be on file within 60 days of initial attendance. Director will have a list and check it monthly. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.131(a)(2) - Initial health report for young toddler no more than 6 months | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Child #2 is 15 months old. His initial health report is dated 11/27/18 and his start date was 7/7/19. The initial health report was more than 6 months old. Correction Required: The initial health report for a young toddler must be dated no more than 6 months prior to the first day of attendance at the facility. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will have parent provide an updated health report and immunization record. In the future, all initial health reports for young toddlers will be not more than 6 months old at admission. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.131(e)(1) - Exemption documentation from parent/guardian | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: Child #2 is 15 months old and has only 2 doses of DTAP, HIB and Polio vaccines documented on the immunization record. Correction Required: The facility shall require the parent to provide updated written verification from a physician, physician's assistant, CRNP, the Department of Health or a local health department of ongoing vaccines administered to an infant, toddler or preschool child in accordance with the schedule recommended by the ACIP. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director will get updated record from parent. Director will review shot records and request updated records or exemptions as required. |
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| 2019-10-28 | Renewal | 3270.134(a)/3270.152 - Child's hands washed/Adult Hygiene | Non Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: On 10/28/19, Rep observed children in the toddler room eat snack without washing their hands first. Staff person in the infant room reported that she uses hand sanitizer after changing children's diapers. Correction Required: A staff person shall ensure that a child's hands are washed before meals and snacks, after toileting and after being diapered. A facility person shall wash his hands before meals and snacks, and after toileting and after diapering a child. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Director reminded staff that to wash children's hands before eating. Staff and children will wash hands after diapering. |
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The director never shows up on time and she was the one opening the center. They say hours are 6-5:30 but they don’t open until 6:30 now but by the time she shows up it’s almost 7. No apology 90% of the time. They also close at 5.
They don’t follow ratios, my child had been sent numerous times to the baby room (my child is 9) when they didn’t want to participate in something.
The price went up but then you had to send your child a lunch during all day care.
They leave kids unattended in the room, they walk out of room for pick up and drop off and leave the other kids in the room without supervision. They don’t have in room bathrooms.
They yell at the children and talk down to them.
There is no adult dress code and they are not required to wear shoes.
Overall a horrible place but unfortunately every where else was full.
This child care facility is the worst in schuylkill country. They miss treat children. Its dirty. Short staffed and refuse to wear their masks. State really needs to shut this down before anyone gets hurt.
That review was for Bumblebee. Kiddie Campus was not open there since 2014.
DO NOT send your child here!!! They change policies at the drop of a hat and expect you to agree with them such as payment timing policy and lateness. Their clocks all read a different time and are all wrong... we can be penalized if we were late according to their clock but early on the rest of the world's? They have been investigated by the State for complaints of taking in more children and having fewer workers for an unsafe ratio. In the winter of 2017, the State showed up at the daycare, and the teachers rallied up the extra children in the preschool room without coats and hid them OUTSIDE "on a walk" until the State inspector would leave, however they were caught by a police office thank goodness due to the freezing temperatures. (Just found that out from a parent who's child was then sent home with a note that day that the child could no longer return). All of those children were sent home from the daycare that day with no daycare to return to the next day... how awful!!! Our child has come home with scratches and bruises that they do not tell us about how they happened and the child is not able to talk yet. The owners do not know how to make eye contact with parents or hold an adult conversation as they are too immature to know how. Their observed behavior is questionable as they are frequently observed whispering right in front of parents with their employees who are apparently their best friends. They snicker and gossip with the employees there while the children run a mock. Their food they serve is questionable and not healthy or balanced selections.