Description: At Today's Child we offer a safe and loving, fully child-centered learning environment. Each individual child's interests, abilities, special talents and learning styles are accommodated and respected. Children in our programs are given the best possible foundation. They are prepared to thrive in the core areas of physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.101(a) - Age appropriate | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection the certification representative observed that many of the classrooms throughout the child care facility did not have sufficient amounts and a variety of play equipment and materials appropriate to the developmental needs of the children in care to preclude long waits for use. Correction Required: Play equipment and materials appropriate to the developmental needs, individual interests and ages of the children shall be provided in sufficient amount and variety to preclude long waits for use. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will purchase and ensure that there is sufficient amounts and a variety of play equipment and materials appropriate to the developmental needs of the children to preclude long waits for use in each classroom at all times. |
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| 2018-05-08 | 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 staff #3 and 4 did not have a complete health assessment on file. 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.) Operator will obtain and ensure that all staff persons have a current and complete health assessment on file at all times. |
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.192(2)(iii) - Exp, educ., training at facility | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection staff #1 and 2 did not have required training on file. Staff #3 did not have verification of education on file. Correction Required: 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.) Operator will obtain and ensure that all staff persons record include the required verification of child care experience, education and training on file at all times. |
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4) - Comply with CPSL/CPSL information | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection staff #4 did not have the required FBI clearance on file. 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. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will ensure that all staff have all required clearances on file and current at all times. Staff #4 is no longer employed at the child care facility (letter on file). |
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.52 - Mixed Age Level | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection classroom #2 had 1 staff person with 11 mixed age children. The youngest child in the group was 4 years old. 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 youngest child in the classroom was moved to a younger age classroom. The director will ensure that child to staff ratio is adhered to at all times. |
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.76 - Building Surfaces | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection it was observed in classroom #1 that the cover for one of the fluorescent lights was missing. Correction Required: Floors, walls, ceilings and other surfaces, including the facility's outdoor play space surfaces shall be kept clean, in good repair and free from visible hazards. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will ensure that all surfaces in the facility is kept in good repair. Operator will replace the cover for the fluorescent light in classroom #1 and keep in good repair at all times. |
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| 2018-05-08 | Renewal | 3270.82(j) - Running water - diapering | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection classroom #4 which is the young toddler classroom did not have a source of running water for handwashing after diapering. Correction Required: A source of running water for handwashing shall be present in infant and toddler diapering areas. If the running water does not flow directly into a drain that is connected to a sewage system, a receptacle shall be provided to contain the water used for washing. The receptacle shall be emptied into an approved sewage system at least once a day. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will ensure that all classrooms with infant and toddler diapering areas have a source of running water for handwashing at all times. |
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| 2018-05-07 | Complaints- Legal Location | 3270.113(a) - Supervised at all times | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the complaint investigation four children (girls) were playing inappropriate games which involved kissing and laying on one another also the same four children were involved in ganging up and kicking a boy on the ground. 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. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) The two staff persons involved in the incident were written up and given supervision training. All parents were called and had a conference in reference to both the incidents. The operator will ensure that all staff are properly supervision all children at the facility to make sure that this kind of behavior does not happen again in the future at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.111(a) - Written plan | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, there was no daily acitivity plan posted in room 2. Correction Required: A written plan of daily activities and routines, including a time for free play shall be established for each group. The plan shall be flexible to accommodate the needs of individual children and the dynamics of the group. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will create and post a daily schedule for all classrooms and have posted at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.113(a)(1) - Staff assigned to specific children | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, staff #3 & 4 did not know which specific children they were assigned responsibility for supervision. Correction Required: Each staff person shall be assigned the responsibility for supervision of specific children. The staff person shall know the names and whereabouts of the children in his assigned group. The staff person shall be physically present with the children in his group on the facility premises and on facility excursions off the facility premises. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.123(a) - Signed | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, child #2 did not have a fee agreement on file. 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 will ensure that all children have a updated fee agreement on file at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.124(e) - Written emergency plan posted | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, there was no emergency transportation plan posted in classroom 7. 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.) Operator will ensure that an emergency transportation plan is posted in every child care space at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.131(a)(4) - Initial health report for school age; accordance with school attendance | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, child #3 did not have a current health assessment on file. Correction Required: The initial health report for a school-age child must be dated in accordance with the requirements for medical examinations for school attendance in 28 Pa. Code 23.2 (relating to medical examinations). |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will ensure that all children have a current health assessment on file at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | Renewal | 3270.131(b)(2) - Toddler/preschool: updated health report every 12 months | Compliant - Finalized |
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Noncompliance Area: During the renewal inspection, child #1 did not have a current health assessment on file. Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent to provide an updated health report at least every 12 months for an older toddler or preschool child. |
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Operator will ensure that all children have an updated health assessment on file at all times. |
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| 2017-03-30 | 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, staff #1 did not have a current health assessment on file. 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.) Operator will ensure that all staff have a current health assessment on file at all times. |
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