DHSS MO
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

OFFICE OF CHILDHOOD

LICENSE EXEMPT PROGRAM INSPECTION REPORT
Facility Information

PEACE LUTHERAN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM

000969199

(314) 892-8844

737 BARRACKSVIEW RD
ST LOUIS
MO  63125

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH



 

VELTEN, SUSAN

EARLYCHILDHOOD@PEACELUTHERANSTL.ORG


MICHELLE WILLIAMS

6 WEEKS - 12 YEARS

99

LICENSE EXEMPT PROGRAM

 
Inspection Information

10/23/2019

N/A

N/A

N/A

COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION

2367585846


DocumentDocument-Date
FIRE/SAFETY INSPECTION 07/22/2019
SANITATION INSPECTION 07/17/2019
NOTICE OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 08/30/2019




Inspection determined facility to be in compliance with rules.
Open Violations: NA

 
19 CSR 30-60.020 Application for Annual Fire Safety and Health and Sanitation Inspections and Inspection Procedures
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.050 Staffing Requirements
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.060 Health Requirements
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.070 Responsibilities of Caregivers
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.080 Fire Safety Requirements
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.090 Sanitation Requirements
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment
Violation
 Provider Comments
Violation
The equipment, a slide, tire swing, and swing sets, that is over 24 inches high, does not have sufficient impact absorbing material present as evidenced by mats are torn and have holes in them underneath the tire swing, mats are starting to harden and they are not cushioned to be safe for impact.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 4 (D) states: The fall-zone area under and around outdoor equipment over twenty-four inches (24") high covered with impact-absorbing materials that will effectively cushion the fall of a child. Materials may include sand, pea gravel, tanbark, shredded tires, wood chips, rubber matting or other approved resilient material.
Correction Required
Impact absorbent materials shall be in the fall zone for any equipment over 24 inches high.

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Compliance Date
10/20/2019
Violation
The facility's outdoor space was not safe for children's activities as evidenced by the presence of overgrown branches sticking through the fence on the preschool and infant/toddler playground.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 4 (C) states: The play area shall be safe for children's activities. It shall be well-maintained and free of hazards such as poisonous plants, broken glass, barbed wire, open wells, rocks and other debris, and shall have good drainage.
Correction Required
The outdoor play area shall be clean, safe and well-maintained as required.

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Compliance Date
10/13/2019
Violation
The space for infants and toddlers is not separated by floor-to-ceiling walls.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 2 (F) 2 states: A facility with a capacity of more than twenty (20) children or more than four (4) infants and toddlers shall have infant and toddler space separate from the older children. The space shall be separated by floor to- ceiling walls with separate play, sleeping and bathroom space.
Correction Required
Infant/toddler space shall be separated from other child care space by floor-to-ceiling walls.

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Compliance Date
10/13/2019
Violation
The premises were not safe and suitable as evidenced by a TV on a TV cart in the large 2-year-old room downstairs that was not strapped down. The TV could topple over onto a child.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 1 states: The premises of all facilities shall be safe and suitable for the care of children.
Correction Required
The premises shall be safe and suitable for the care of children.

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Compliance Date
10/13/2019
Violation
Hazardous items as follows were accessible to children: multiple adult scissors, a screwdriver, power strip with 3 uncovered outlets, hanging cords on the TV cart, water heater, knives and a gas stove with 6 burners, diaper rash creams, 2 Vaseline containers, disposable plastic bags, and hand sanitizer. The item(s) was/were located in a unlocked drawer in preschool room 212, in the fellowship hall, in a laundry room in the fellowship hall, in a kitchen located in the fellowship hall, in the bathroom located in the hallway outside the fellowship hall, multiple locations.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 1 (D) states: Hazardous materials such as cleaning supplies, poisonous materials, medicines, alcoholic beverages or hazardous personal care items shall be inaccessible to children and stored to prevent cross-contamination of food and food-related materials.
Correction Required
Hazardous material(s) shall be inaccessible to children and stored to prevent cross-contamination of food and food-related items.

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Compliance Date
10/13/2019
Violation
Children were not restricted to approved space as evidenced by a door in the fellowship hall bathroom leading to an area not approved for childcare, and a laundry room in the fellowship hall that was accessible to children.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.100 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 1 (A) states: Children shall have no access to areas not approved for child care.
Correction Required
Caregivers shall restrict children to approved space.

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Compliance Date
10/14/2019
19 CSR 30-60.110 Transportation and Field Trip Requirements
Compliance
19 CSR 30-60.120 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records
Violation
 Provider Comments
Violation
The facility's admitting procedure did not include an emergency medical care plan.
Licensing Rule Reference
19 CSR 30-60.120 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records 1 states: The facility director shall have an admitting procedure for each child in care that includes a plan for caring for the child if s/he becomes ill or needs emergency medical treatment. The director shall maintain an individual file on each child in order to communicate with the parent(s), guardian or legal custodian. The director shall have a plan for any child with special health needs, identified through a physical assessment by a licensed physician or an advance practice nurse, to ensure that those needs are met during care.
Correction Required
The facility shall have an admitting procedure for each child in care which includes a plan for ill children, emergency medical care, and special health needs.

Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
10/14/2019
19 CSR 30-63.040 Background Screening Findings
Compliance
RSMo 210.003 Immunizations of children required, when, exceptions--duties of administrator, report--notification of parents, when.
Compliance
RSMo 210.1080 Background checks required--definitions--procedures—ineligible for employment, when--exemption, when--emergency rules.
Compliance
RSMo 210.115 Reports of abuse, neglect, and under age eighteen deaths--persons required to report--supervisors and administrators not to impede reporting--deaths required to be reported to the division or child fatality review panel, when.
Compliance
RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually.
Compliance
RSMo 210.255 Religious organizations operating facility in violation, procedure - noncompliance after notice, prosecutor may act or attorney general.
Compliance
RSMo 252 Fire, safety, health and sanitation inspections, procedures - variances to rules granted when - rules authorized.
Compliance