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Moving Mountains Academy of Early Learning, LLC

Inspection · 2025-08-22

Date
2025-08-22
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Amy Tomblin
(804) 629-3923
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

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 monitoring inspection was initiated on August 22, 2025 completed on August 22, 2025. The on-site inspection began at 10:45 a.m. and ended at 12:55 p.m. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 23 children present and six staff. The inspector reviewed five children?s records and five staff records on-site. This inspection included document review, tour of the facility, interviews and observation.

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 September 2, 2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

7
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-1
The center is required to obtain a completed sworn statement prior to the employee's first day of employment.
Staff #3, employed for five months, did not have a completed sworn statement on file.
Plan of Correction: Employee is coming in to sign sworn disclosure prior to returning.
Standard 8VAC20-780-160-A
Each staff member shall submit documentation of a negative tuberculosis (TB) screening at the time of employment and prior to coming into contact with children.
Staff #1, employed for more than two months, did not have a TB screening on file.
Staff #2, employed for two months, did not have a TB screening on file.
Plan of Correction: Completed TB screening was located and place in each staff member's file.
Standard 8VAC20-780-240-B
REPEAT VIOLATION
Staff shall complete orientation training no later than seven days of the date of assuming job responsibilities.
Staff #3, who had been employed for five months, did not have documentation of completed orientation on file.
Plan of Correction: Employee is coming in for orientation prior to returning.
Standard 8VAC20-780-280-B
Hazardous substances must be in a locked place that prevents access by children.
In the school age classroom, the bleach spray was in an unlocked cabinet within reach of children. In the bathroom, the bleach spray was in an unlocked cabinet, out of reach of children.
Plan of Correction: Staff were instructed to discard bottles since they were broken and not used. Cabinet i snot used for storage.
Standard 8VAC20-780-330-B
Where playground equipment is provided, resilient surfacing shall comply with minimum safety standards and shall be under equipment with climbing apparatus to create a fall zone free of hazardous obstacles.
The climber in the outdoor play space was three feet from the fence creating a hazard within the required six-foot fall zone. The resilient surfacing around the climber included less than one inch of mulch, bare ground, grass and gravel which did not meet the minimum safety standard of six inches of mulch in the six-foot fall zone around the climber.
Plan of Correction: Children are behind taken to the park and the climber is being removed. Children are not to be in the play yard until climber is removed.
Standard 8VAC20-780-40-M
The center is required to keep, in a way that is accessible to all staff who work with children, a current list of all known allergies, sensitivities, and dietary restrictions in each room or area where children are present.
There was no list in the school age classroom.
Plan of Correction: Staff found allergy that afternoon and were reminded to keep it where it can be accessed by staff.
Standard 8VAC20-780-560-G
When food is brought from home the food container must be clearly dated and labelled in a way that identifies the owner.
In the school age cubbies, there was two lunchboxes without names or dates and one lunch box without a date.
Plan of Correction: Staff were reminded to name and date all lunchboxes.
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