Chapel Hill KinderCare - Chapel Hill NC Five Star Center License

210 SOUTH ELLIOTT ROAD , CHAPEL HILL NC 27514
(919) 942-7223

About the Provider

Description:

Our experts designed our classrooms - and every activity and lesson - to help prepare your child for success in school and beyond. With designated learning centers such as dramatic play and blocks in every classroom, children have the opportunity for rich social play and child-initiated discovery.

You’ll also find that our classrooms feature a print-rich environment full of carefully selected materials, written charts and labels, and children’s literature. By helping your child connect spoken words and print, we’re helping develop early literacy and writing skills.

Whether your child has first words or first grade on the horizon, we’re excited to show you how everything in our center is designed for learning!

Bernice Starks, Center Director

Additional Information: Three Star Center License

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number: 6855067
  • Capacity: 118
  • Age Range: 0 through 12
  • Achievement and/or Accreditations Yes
  • State Rating: 5
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: Yes
  • Type of Care: Infant Programs, Toddler Programs, Discovery Preschool Programs, Preschool Programs, Prekindergarten Programs
  • Transportation: Yes
  • Current License Issue Date: 2024-11-18
  • District Office: North Carolina Dept of Health and Human Services - Division of Child Development
  • District Office Phone: (919) 662-4499 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Date Type Violations Rule
2026-01-14 Unannounced Inspection Yes
2026-01-14 Violation 106 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a)
Operator has not scheduled and obtained a fire inspection within 12 months of the previous inspection. Operator did not submit the original approved report to DCDEE within one week of the inspection visit on a form provided by the Division. The last fire drill on record was in September of 2024. No fire inspection was scheduled or completed in 2025.
2026-01-14 Violation 540 10A NCAC 09 .0902(a)
An individual written feeding plan was not provided by child's parent or health care provider or was not followed and posted. (omit posting for centers located in a residence) There was not a completed individual written feeding plan for each infant in care.
2026-01-14 Violation 805 .0604(t); .0302(d)(5)
Fire drills were not practiced monthly and/or the drill record was incomplete. No fire drills were practiced/recorded during April, June, September, October and December of 2025.
2026-01-14 Violation 1048 .1102(c)
All staff did not successfully complete certification in First Aid appropriate to the age of children in care. Verification of staff completion of First Aid training from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. 13 staff members First Aid training had expired or had not been received within 90 days of hire.
2026-01-14 Violation 1049 .1102(d)
All staff did not successfully complete certification in CPR training appropriate to the age of the children in care. Verification of staff completion of the CPR course from an approved training organization was not in the staff file. 13 staff members CPR training had expired or not been received within 90 days of hire.
2026-01-14 Violation 1320 GS 110-91(1);.0302(d)(2); .0304(g)
Children's records that include an application for enrollment, medical and immunization records, and permission to seek emergency medical care was not on file for each child. Of the files reviewed, one child's file did not include a medical exam or health assessment.
2026-01-14 Violation 1322 .1005(b)(4)
A written statement from each child's parent giving standing permission which may be valid for up to twelve months for participation in off premise activities that occur on a regular basis was not available. All children's files did not include a completed off premise activity form.
2026-01-14 Violation 1811 .0604(u);.0302(d)(8)
Shelter-in-place or lockdown drills were not practiced every three months and/or drill record was incomplete. The last recorded shelter-in-place or lockdown drill for the program was recorded in July of 2025.
2026-01-14 Violation 1908 .0608(b)(1-6)
A child's file did not have a statement with parent signature acknowledging receipt and explanation of the Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy and/or the acknowledgement did not have all the required information. Of the files reviewed, one child's file did not have a signed statement acknowledging receipt of the program's Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma policy.
2025-07-25 Unannounced Inspection No 0725-194L
2025-07-16 Unannounced Inspection No 0725-194L
2025-07-16 Violation 887 .0606(g)
Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of one month. In Space 3, caregivers did not document visually checking on sleeping infants on a regular basis in fifteen minute intervals.
2025-07-16 Violation 1890 .0701(d)
Each staff member did not have the required medical report, proof of tuberculosis test or screening and/or completed health questionnaire in a medical file, maintained separately from the staff member's individual personnel file. Three new staff members did not have the required medical report on file.
2025-01-23 Unannounced Inspection Yes

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