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Staunton Montessori School, Inc.

Inspection · 2024-09-20

Date
2024-09-20
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Kelly Lindsay
(540) 309-2494
SHSIA monitoring inspection of an approved subsidy vendor to determine compliance with current subsidy requirements regarding the health and safety of children and to promote quality standards for the children in their care.
No

Areas Reviewed

8VAC20-780 Administration.
8VAC20-780 Staff Qualifications and Training.
8VAC20-780 Physical Plant.
8VAC20-780 Staffing and Supervision.
8VAC20-780 Programs.
8VAC20-780 Special Care Provisions and Emergencies
8VAC20-770 Background Checks (8VAC20-770)
20 Access to minor?s records
22.1 Background Checks Code, Carbon Monoxide

Inspector Notes

An unannounced, on-site renewal inspection was initiated on 09/20/2024 and completed on 09/20/2024. The on-site inspection began at 10:05 AM and ended at 11:40 AM. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 38 children present and 7 staff. The inspector reviewed five children?s records and four staff records on-site. This inspection included document review, tour of the facility, interviews and observations.

Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance with applicable standards or law, and violations are documented on the violation notice issued to the program.

Please complete the plan of correction (POC) and date to be corrected sections for each violation cited on the violation notice. Specify how the deficient practice will be or has been corrected. Submit your POC within five (5) business days from today, which will be the close of business on 09/30/2024. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

3
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-4
REPEAT VIOLATION
The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years.

Staff #1, employed for more than three years, did not have a request for a central registry check and a sex offender search for one state.
Plan of Correction: Sex offender registry search conducted 9/23/24.

Interstate background check request emailed 9/24/24.
Standard 8VAC20-780-430-C
S-hooks where provided may not be open more than the thickness of a penny.

The S-hooks on two swings on the playground were open more than the thickness of a penny.
Plan of Correction: Replace S-hooks with clevis hooks.
Standard 8VAC20-780-90-A
A written agreement shall be in each child?s record by the first day of the child?s attendance. The agreement shall be signed and include an authorization for medical care and a statement the parent will inform the center within 24 hours or the next business day after his child or any member of the immediate household has developed any reportable communicable disease.

Child #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5, who had been attending for one month, did not have the signed agreements on file.
Plan of Correction: Adding to newsletter and family handbook- requestion inform school in any household member develops communicable disease (within 24 hours).
Send hardcopy of acknowledgement form to be signed and returned by Monday 9/30/24.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services