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25 | An unannounced Annual inspection was conducted by Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Jose Penate. LPA met with Licensee, Martha Benitez-Lopez and her assistant. This facility is licensed as a large facility of 14, there must be an additional qualified staff person present anytime the facility goes beyond the ratio for a capacity of eight. LPA toured the facility inside and outside. The areas of the home that day care children will have access to is the living room, kitchen, dining room, hallway bathroom, and back yard. No bodies of water on site. No firearms or ammunition are in the home. Storage areas for detergents, cleaning compounds, medications and other items which could pose a danger to children are stored where they are inaccessible to children. Poisons are locked. There is fireplace in the home and it is inaccessible to daycare children, licensee has placed wooden bookshelf in front. Fire extinguisher, smoke detector, and carbon monoxide detector are operable and in place. The home provides safe toys, play equipment, and materials. Licensee has two large dogs and two small dogs that are kept in areas inaccessible to children. Licensee is aware of the safety of children around animals. When temporarily absent from the home, the licensee arranges for a substitute adult to care for and supervise children in her absence.
The licensee maintains capacity specified on the license. Each child has safe, healthful, and comfortable accommodations, furnishings, and equipment. The home has a current roster of the children. The home conducts fire and disaster drills every month, and documents the date and time of each drill. Licensee documents immunizations and maintains and updates records for children in care. There are no excluded individuals in the home.
Licensee is aware that upon notice from the Department, any excluded individual must be immediately removed from the home and prevented from returning to home or having contact with children in care. All individuals subject to a criminal record review have obtained a criminal record clearance or exemption prior to working, residing, or volunteering in a licensed home. Mandated reporter was completed on 06/06/2018.
Continued on LIC 809-C
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