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25 | A PRELICENSING INSPECTION CONDUCTED IN SPANISH Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Janeth Chavez conducted an announced pre-licensing inspection today. LPA met with Merlyn Mata whom guided LPA on a tour of the facility indoors and outdoors. This application is a change of location, the applicants are licensed at 447 S. Berendo St, Los Angeles, CA 90020 with license #198019111. This is a fourplex and the applicants live on the first floor. Family members residing in the home are 2 adults and 1 minor child. The applicants are Merlyn M. Mata & Leonel J. Hernandez. Per applicant operating hours will be Monday – Friday from 6:00am- 8:00pm. Applicant states they want to care for children birth to 12 years old.
All areas identified on the facility sketch were inspected. This is a one-story home which consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 ½ Full Restrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry room, 2 closets, parking garage & front yard (fenced). The home was inspected for safety, comfort, cleanliness, telephone service, heating and ventilation, inaccessibility to poisons, detergents, cleaning compounds, medicines, and hazardous items that can pose a danger to children. The home has air conditioning throughout the house.
Areas off limits include: 2 bedrooms, full restroom, laundry room, kitchen, 2 closets, & parking garage. Areas used by children include: Living & Dining room (main daycare area), ½ Restroom adjacent to the dining room, and front yard (fenced). These areas are accessible during day care hours. LPA observed a wall heater in the dining room that is barricaded with a metal safety gate. As per applicant this wall heater will not be used during daycare hours. LPA observed two metal safety gates in the kitchen to prevent access to the kitchen and hallway that leads to the bedrooms, closets, laundry room and parking garage. Applicants were advised to keep all off-limit areas inaccessible to day care children at all times. LPA inspected the children’s bathroom and is free of hazards and included a changing table. The applicant stated that the children will be using the front yard as the main play area. The front LPA did not observe any hazardous items in the front yard. The applicant stated that the children will nap in the living room and eat in the dining room table.
Report continued on attached LIC 809C page 1 of 3. |