Inspection · 2025-07-29
Licensing Inspector
Christine Mahan
(757) 404-0568
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.
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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
8VAC20-780 Special Services.
8VAC20-820 THE LICENSE.
8VAC20-820 THE LICENSING PROCESS.
8VAC20-820 HEARINGS PROCEDURES.
8VAC20-770 Background Checks
20 Access to minor?s records
22.1 Early Childhood Care and Education
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
An unannounced, on-site renewal inspection was initiated on July 29, 2025 and completed on July 30, 2025. The on-site inspection began at 10:05 am and ended at 12:05 pm. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were twenty-three children present and seven staff. The inspector reviewed five children?s records and five staff records on-site and electronically on July 30, 2025. This inspection included document review, tour of the facility, interviews, observations, and measurements.
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 violation will be or has been corrected. Submit your POC within five (5) business days from today, which will be the close of business on August 6, 2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-2
Centers must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee's first day of employment. Staff #3, who had been employed for two months, did not have a completed national criminal background check.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-4
The center is required to request background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years prior to beginning employment. Staff #2, employed for 5 days, did not have documentation of requesting a criminal history check, central registry check and a sex offender search from a state the individual previously lived in the past 5 years.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.057-A
(Repeat violation) The program is required to submit to VDH and implement a plan to test potable water for lead. The program did not have evidence of a testing plan submitted to VDH and/or the program did not have evidence of the implementation of the required testing plan.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-160-A
Documentation of a negative tuberculosis (TB) screening must be submitted at the time of employment, before coming into contact with children, and shall have been completed within the last 30 days of the date of employment. Staff #3 had no documentation and had been employed for two months.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-330-B
Playground equipment with moving parts or climbing apparatus must have resilient surfacing in appropriate fall zones that encompass sufficient area to include the child's trajectory in the event of a fall. There was less than 1" depth of resilient surfacing at the foot of the two slides on the composite piece of equipment on the outside playground when there should have a been a depth of 6".
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.