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Selah Academy

Inspection · 2025-09-16

Date
2025-09-16
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Michelle Argenbright
(540) 848-4123
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

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 on September 16, 2025 and completed on September 16, 2025. The on-site inspection began at 10:25 a.m. and ended at 11:30 a.m. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were five children present with two staff. The inspector reviewed five children?s records and three staff records on-site. This inspection included document review, tour of the facility, interviews, and observations. Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance(s) 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 (5) business days from today, which will be the close of business on September 24, 2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

5
Standard 22.1-289.031-A
REPEAT VIOLATION The exemption from licensure must be posted in a visible location on the premises. The center does not have the exemption posted.
Plan of Correction: Exemption posted.
Standard 22.1-289.031-B-4
The center must ensure that all children in the center have immunizations in the record before a child may attend the center. The record for child #3, who has been attending the center for two weeks, does not have documentation of immunizations.
Plan of Correction: Requested info from mother.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-3
The center must ensure a search of the central registry is requested prior to employment. There is no documentation staff #2, who has been working at the center for 15 months, and staff #3, who has been working at the center for three month, has requested a search of central registry.
Plan of Correction: In progress.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-4
The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years. Staff #3, employed for more than three months, did not have documentation of requesting a central registry check, sex offender search or criminal history check from a different state.
Plan of Correction: Background checks in progress.
Standard 22.1-289.049-A
The regulated 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 center does not have proof of a children's identity and age for the children in care.
Plan of Correction: In progress.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services