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Rosa Melara

Inspection · 2025-05-08

Date
2025-05-08
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Whitney Mcgrath
(571) 835-4717
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.
Yes

Areas Reviewed

22.1 Background Checks Code
8VAC20-790 Building or Home Maintenance
63.2 Child abuse and neglect
8VAC20-790 Supervision and Ratio Requirements
8VAC20-790 Introduction
8VAC20-790 Programs
8VAC20-790 Administration
8VAC20-790 Special Care Provisions & Emergencies
8VAC20-790 General Qualifications
8VAC20-790 Special Services

During the inspection, the inspector reviewed the areas listed above to include standards found out of compliance during the previous inspection. Unless otherwise noted as a violation within this inspection report, the provider was in compliance with the standards reviewed. If there were any serious injuries or fatalities related to a violation, the details will be included in the description of the violation.

Inspector Notes

A subsidy health and safety inspection (SHSI) was initiated and completed on 5/8/2025. The inspection started at 3:30 PM and concluded at 4:30 PM. There were 2children present and 1 caregiver; the point total was 4. The inspector reviewed 2 children?s records and 1 caregiver record on-site. This inspection included document review (i.e. Injury logs, policies and procedures, emergency drill logs, medication administration logs, authorization forms), tour of the family day home, interviews and observations.

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

Violations

6
Standard 8VAC20-790-180-B
The vendor shall maintain a written hard copy record of daily attendance that documents the arrival and departure of each child in care as it occurs.

The most recent date of documented attendance is 5/1/2025. There has been no attendance documented for the last 5 days.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-790-190-B
Childrens records shall contain all required information.

Child #1s record does not contain an emergency contact to be reached if the parents cannot be reached.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-790-230-A
Before a child may attend the family day home, the vendor shall obtain documentation that the child has been immunized.

The vendor has not obtained documentation of immunizations for child #1. Child #1 has been enrolled at the local ordinance home since April 2024.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-790-280-A-4
Bathrooms shall be equipped with soap, toilet paper, and disposable towels or an air dryer within reach of the children.

The vendors bathroom did not contain disposable towels.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-790-400-H
Medication shall be kept in a locked place using a safe locking method that prevents access by children.

A bottle of cough medicine, a bottle of ibuprofen and several bottles of various vitamins were observed sitting on the vendors kitchen table.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-790-430-A-1
REPEAT VIOLATION
Evacuation procedures shall be practiced at least monthly.

The vendor did not practice evacuation drills in the month of March or April of 2025.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.