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Gentle Touch Learning Center 2

Inspection · 2025-07-03

Date
2025-07-03
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Trisha Brown
(757) 404-2601
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.
8VAC20-820 THE LICENSING PROCESS.
8VAC20-820 HEARINGS PROCEDURES.
8VAC20-770 Background Checks
20 Access to minor?s records
22.1 Early Childhood Care and Education
63.2 Child Abuse & Neglect

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 and completed on 7/3/2025, as a part of the conditional licensure period. The on-site inspection began at 10am and ended at 1pm. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 43 children present and 7 staff. The inspector reviewed 5 children?s records, and 1 new staff record on-site. This inspection included document review, a tour of the facility, interviews, and observations.

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 business days from today, which will be the close of business on 7/11/2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

7
Standard 8VAC20-780-270-A
Areas and equipment of the center inside shall be maintained in safe condition.
1 - There is cabinet in the three-year-old room, approximately 3 ? feet tall that is not secured to the wall and pose a toppling hazard.
2 - There is a dangling cord in the school age room, within reach of children and pose an entanglement hazard.
3 ? An infant was observed sleeping in a crib with items including a pacifier on a cloth string which poses an entanglement hazard. A boppy pillow and bib hanging over the side of the crip, a second bib on the mattress of the crib, and a toy in the infant?s hand.
4 ? There is a pack-n-play in the two-year-old room that is used every morning for infants until the infant room teacher comes to bring them to the infant care room.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-340-F
Children under 10 years of age always shall be within actual sight and sound supervision of staff, except that staff need only be able to hear a child who is using the restroom. A five-year-old child was sent to the restroom alone. Staff #2 stood in the door way of the classroom. The child walked through four doorways and outside sight and sound supervision of Staff #2.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-500-A
Staff shall wash their hands with soap and running water before and after a diaper change. Staff #1 did not wash her hands before or after changing the diaper of child in care in the 2 year-old room.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-500-B
When diapering there shall be sight and sound supervision for all children when a child is being diapered. The diaper changing table in the infant room faces a wall. There were four infants in care with one staff member. The staff could not maintain sight supervision of the other three infants present while changing the diaper of one child.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-520-C
If diaper ointment or cream is used, the following requirements shall be met, written parent authorization noting any known adverse reactions and a record shall be kept that includes the child's name, date of use,
frequency of application and any adverse reactions. Staff #3 stated that she had administered diaper cream to Child #1 on more than one occasion. However, there was not any documentation of written parent authorization or documentation as to when the diaper cream was applied.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-560-F-4
Children three years of age or younger may not be offered foods that are considered to be potential choking hazards. Raisins were served to a child in care in the infant room. Children present for care ranged in age from 7 to 22 months old. Raisins were accessible to all four children present in the room.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
Standard 8VAC20-780-60-A
Documentation of child updates and confirmation of up-to-date information in the child's record. Two out of five children?s records reviewed do not include documentation of annual updated information.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services