Inspection · 2025-10-10
Licensing Inspector
Emily Walsh
(757) 404-2575
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
Areas of Standards Reviewed:
22.1 Religious Exempt; Background Checks Code; Carbon Monoxide
32.1 Report by person other than physician
54.1 Must be MAT Certified.
63.2 Child abuse and neglect
8VAC20-770 Background Checks
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 code compliance inspection was initiated and completed on 10/10/2025. The on-site inspection began at 12:00 PM and ended at 1:05 PM. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 8 children present with 2 staff. The inspector reviewed 3 children?s records and 2 staff records on-site.
This inspection included:
? document review,
? tour of the facility,
? interviews, and
? observations.
Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliances with applicable code sections, 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 business days from today, which will be the close of business on October 21, 2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.
Standard 22.1-289.031-A-4
Each person in a supervisory position has been certified by a practicing physician or physician assistant to be free from any disability which would prevent him from caring for children under his supervision.
Staff 2 did not have a certification from a physician or physician assistant to be free from any disability that would prevent him from caring for children.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.031-B-5
Ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children are free of obvious injury hazards.
There were numerous containers of potentially hazardous substances (sanitizing wipes, hand sanitizer, cleaning fluid) stored behind a curtain under the front desk. In addition there were containers of sanitizing wipes accessible to the children in the classrooms and a container of rubbing alcohol on amidst the toys on a toy shelf within reach of the children.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.035-A
All employees shall undergo a background check in accordance with subsection B prior to employment and every five years thereafter.
The most recent criminal record check for staff 1 is dated September 2020, not within the past five years.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-1
Staff shall provide a sworn statement or affirmation disclosing whether he has ever been convicted of or is the subject of pending charges for any offense within or outside the Commonwealth and whether he has been the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect within or outside the Commonwealth.
Staff 2, on duty with the children, completed the Sworn statement during the inspection.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-2
Staff shall submit to fingerprinting and provide personal descriptive information described in subdivision B 2 of ? 19.2-392.02.
Staff 2 had not obtained a criminal record check (fingerprinting) and was on duty with the children during the inspection.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-3
Staff shall authorize the child day center to obtain a copy of the results of a search of the central registry maintained pursuant to ? 63.2-1515 for any founded complaint of child abuse or neglect against him.
Results of a search of the central registry was not obtained for staff 2 who was on duty with the children during the inspection.
Results of a central registry search was not available for staff 1 who was on duty with the children during the inspection.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.049-A
Upon enrollment of a child in a regulated child day program, such child day program shall require that the person enrolling the child present the regulated child day program with the proof of the child's identity and age.
The facility did not have documentation that proof of the child's identity and age was provided for child 1 and child 2.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.057-A
Each child day program that serves preschool-age children shall develop and implement a plan to test potable water from sources identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as high priority, including bubbler-style and cooler-style drinking fountains, kitchen taps, classroom combination sinks and drinking fountains, home economics room sinks, teacher's lounge sinks, nurse's office sinks, classroom sinks in special education classrooms, and sinks known to be or visibly used for consumption.
The facility has not tested their potable water (lead testing) from sources identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as high priority.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 22.1-289.058
Each building that was built before 2015 and that houses a child day program that serves preschool-age children shall be equipped with at least one carbon monoxide detector.
The facility does not have a carbon monoxide detector.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.