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Ballad Health Center for Early Learning - Lebanon

Inspection · 2025-07-10

Date
2025-07-10
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Angela Farmer
(276) 608-2283
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
8VAC20-780 Special Services.
8VAC20-820 THE LICENSE.
8VAC20-770 Background Checks
20 Access to minor?s records
22.1 Early Childhood Care and Education
63.2 Child Abuse & Neglect

Inspector Notes

An unannounced, on-site monitoring inspection was initiated and completed on 7/10/2025. The on-site inspection began at 9:45 am and ended at 12:15 pm. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 20 children present and 12 staff. The inspector reviewed five children?s records and seven staff records on-site.
This inspection included: document review, tour of the facility, and interviews.

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 7/18/25. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

3
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. The center did not request a search of the child abuse and neglect registry and sex offender search from one state for Staff #2, who has been employed for more than four months and was working with children at the time of the inspection.
Plan of Correction: Staff resigned.
Standard 8VAC20-780-550-E
Shelter in place procedures shall be practiced a minimum of twice per year.
There was only one shelter in place drill documented for 2024.
Plan of Correction: Entered information received from Pam Smith on 2024 drill
Standard 8VAC20-780-560-G
When food is brought from home the food container must be clearly dated and labeled in a way that identifies the owner.
None of the food containers in the pre-school room were dated or labeled.
Plan of Correction: Made labels for each child that can be attached to lunchbox and dated for each date.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services