Smart Alecks Learning Center

Regulation: 3270.131(b)(1)

Description: Infant: updated health report every 6 months

Noncompliance Area: Child 1 did not have a health report that was less than 6 months old (one on file was dated 10/26/2022).

Correction Required: The operator shall require the parent to provide an updated health report at least every 6 months for an infant or young toddler.

Regulation: 3270.76

Description: Building Surfaces

Noncompliance Area: On the play space at the time of inspection, there was a grate that was bend on the edges that may pose a hazard to the children in care.

Correction Required: Floors, walls, ceilings and other surfaces, including the facility's outdoor play space surfaces shall be kept clean, in good repair and free from visible hazards.

Regulation: 3270.77(a)

Description: No peeling paint or plaster

Noncompliance Area: Along the wall and fence area at the time of inspection, there was peeling paint and plaster.

Correction Required: Peeled or damaged paint or damaged plaster is not permitted on indoor or outdoor surfaces in the child care facility.

Noncompliance Area: At the time of inspection on 9/18/19, there were large white shelves in the (1) restroom used for diapering on the first level. There was (2)one on the second level.

Correction Required: Furniture must be durable, safe, easily cleaned and appropriate for the child's size, age and special needs.

Noncompliance Area: At the time of inspection on 9/18/19, facility child #1 was observed sleeping/ not eating in a high chair. During the inspection period child #2 mother came to the facility to drop-off snack. The parent stated their concern because was sleeping in the high chair at pick-up and was not strapped in.

Correction Required: Individual, clean, age-appropriate rest equipment shall be provided for preschool, toddler and infant children as agreed between the child's parent and the operator. The rest equipment shall be labeled for the use of a specific child and used only by the specified child.

Noncompliance Area: The facility refrigerator in the kitchen, with food inside; on the second level of the facility did not have a working thermometer during the inspection on 9/18.19.

Correction Required: A facility shall have an operable, clean refrigerator used to store potentially hazardous foods. The refrigerator shall be capable of maintaining food at 45 F or below. An operating thermometer shall be placed in the refrigerator.Potentially hazardous food brought from the child's home or provided by the facility shall be refrigerated.

Noncompliance Area: At the time of inspection on 9/18/19, staff #2 was observed changing a child diaper. Once the change was complete; the staffer did not wash the child's hands, clean the surface, and picked-up another child wearing the same pair of gloves.

Correction Required: A staff person shall ensure that a child's hands are washed before meals and snacks, after toileting and after being diapered.Diaper changing surfaces shall be cleaned after each use by wiping the surface with a sanitizing solution or by changing a pad or other surface covering.

Noncompliance Area: The health assessment in the file for staff #5-hire date 9-9-19; who was observed working in the infant room did not have written proof of a TB test being applied or read with negative results at the time of inspection on 9/18/19. The health assessment in the file for staff #1 had positive TB results with no chest XRay results. Staff #1 was also observed working in the infant room on 9/18/19.

Correction Required: An adult health assessment must include tuberculosis screening by the Mantoux method at initial employment. Subsequent tuberculosis screening is not required unless directed by a physician, physician's assistant, CRNP, the Department of Health or a local health department.A facility person's record shall include a written report of initial and subsequent health assessments, including the results of initial and subsequent tuberculin skin tests, x-rays or other medical documentation necessary to confirm freedom from communicable tuberculosis.

Noncompliance Area: At the onset of the inspection on 9/18/19 pizza was served for lunch. During lunch observation CR did not see fruit of vegetable to supplement the meal.

Correction Required: A lunch or dinner prepared at the facility for children of toddler age or older shall include at least one fruit or vegetable.

Noncompliance Area: There were fourteen children in the infant room at the time of inspection on 9/18/19. Thirteen were under the age of one-year. Eight of the thirteen had written feeding schedules on file at the facility.

Correction Required: A written statement giving the formula and feeding schedule for an infant shall be obtained from the parent.