Inspection · 2021-05-03
(757) 404-5261
Areas Reviewed
22VAC40-185 ADMINISTRATION.
22VAC40-185 STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING.
22VAC40-185 PHYSICAL PLANT.
22VAC40-185 STAFFING AND SUPERVISION.
22VAC40-185 PROGRAMS.
22VAC40-185 SPECIAL CARE PROVISIONS AND EMERGENCIES.
22VAC40-185 SPECIAL SERVICES.
22VAC40-80 THE LICENSE.
22VAC40-80 THE LICENSING PROCESS.
22VAC40-80 SANCTIONS.
22VAC40-80 HEARINGS PROCEDURES.
22VAC40-191 Background Checks (22VAC40-191)
20 Access to minor?s records
32.1 Report by person other than physician
63.2 Child Abuse & Neglect
63.2(17) License & Registration Procedures
63.2 Facilities & Programs.
Inspector Notes
This inspection was conducted by licensing staff using an alternate remote protocol, necessary due to a state of emergency health pandemic declared by the Governor of Virginia.
A monitoring inspection was initiated on 5/3/2021 and concluded on 5/11/2021. The director was contacted by telephone to initiate the inspection. There were 88 children present and 17 staff. The inspector emailed the director/provider a list of items required to complete the inspection. The Inspector reviewed 5 children?s records and 5 staff records submitted by the facility to ensure documentation was complete.
Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance(s) with applicable standards or law and violations were documented on the violation notice issued to the facility.
Violations
5Evidence:
The licensing inspector requested a copy of the most recent fire inspection conducted at the center.
The program director was not able to produce documentation of a fire inspection conducted at the center.
She has recently been hired as the program director and cannot locate this document.
Evidence:
The licensing inspector requested a copy of the most recent health inspection conducted at the center.
The most recent health inspection that the program director was able to produce was dated 1/7/2019.
She has recently been hired as the program director and is unsure of whether a more recent inspection has been conducted.
Evidence:
The records submitted for staff #1, #4 and #5 did not contain documentation that two or more references as to character and reputation as well as competency were checked before employment or volunteering.
The records for staff #2 and staff #3 contained a few brief notes indicating that a call had been made but did not contain all of the required information from the reference checks that were completed before their employment in the program.
Dates of contact; Names of persons contacted; The firms contacted; Results; and Signature of person making call.
Evidence:
The records for 5 staff were requested.
Four of the 5 staff records requested did not contain the results of a Search of the Central Registry (staff #1 hired 3/18/2021, staff #2 hired 7/1/19, staff #4 hired 2/15/2021 and staff #5 hired 3/15/2021).
The program director was unable to locate documentation of the central registry findings for the 4 staff.
She has recently been promoted to Program Director and is still trying to locate various missing documentation.
Evidence:
Five staff records were reviewed.
The records for staff #1 (hired 3/18/21), staff #2 (hired 7/1/19) and staff #4 (hired 2/15/2021) all indicated on their signed sworn disclosure statement that they had lived in the state of North Carolina within the past 5 years.
The licensee was not able to demonstrate that an out of state Child Abuse and Neglect Registry nor an out of state Sex Offender Registry search had been obtained by the end of staff #1, staff #2, and staff #4's 30th Day of Employment.
She will continue to try to locate this documentation and will contact the appropriate agencies to request duplicates if they have been conducted. If unable to obtain the results, she will send requests for new out of state Child Abuse and Neglect as well as out of state Sex Offender Registry searches within 10 days and send this documentation to her licensing inspector at that time.