DHSS MO
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

OFFICE OF CHILDHOOD

GROUP HOME AND CENTER INSPECTION REPORT
Facility Information

BRIGHT START ACADEMY, INC.

001768449

(636) 379-2600

864 HOMEFIELD BLVD
O FALLON
MO  63366

BRIGHT START ACADEMY, INC.

112 TRAIL CREEK CT
COTTLEVILLE
MO  63304-7587

BRANSCUM, DAWN RENEE

BSAOFALLON@YAHOO.COM

Incorporated

TANISHA BELL

6 WEEKS - 12 YEARS

128

GROUP HOME AND CENTER

24 CHILDREN UNDER 12 MONTHS; 40 CHILDREN UNDER 24 MONTHS
 
Inspection Information

06/10/2022

9:00 AM

2:11 PM

UNANNOUNCED

COMPLIANCE MONITORING

2425378780


DocumentDocument-Date
SAMPLE WEEKLY MENU 05/21/2003
SAMPLE FORMS 05/21/2003
POLICIES 05/22/2003
LOCAL BUILDING APPROVAL 06/30/2008
LINES OF ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY 05/22/2003
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 03/10/2003
DISCIPLINE POLICIES 05/22/2003
DIRECTOR'S QUALIFICATIONS 04/05/2013
DIAGRAM/OUTDOOR 03/10/2003
DIAGRAM/INDOOR 03/10/2003
DAILY SCHEDULE 05/22/2003
CHILD CARE PRACTICES 05/22/2003
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 05/22/2003
APPLICATION 03/02/2020
STAFF SHEET 06/10/2022
SANITATION INSPECTION 02/10/2022
LOCAL ZONING APPROVAL 06/10/2022
LISTING OF CHILD CARE STAFF/HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS 06/10/2022
DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN 06/10/2022
FIRE/SAFETY INSPECTION 03/21/2022
EQUIPMENT LIST 06/10/2022
CERTIFICATE OF GOOD STANDING 06/10/2022
ANNUAL DECLARATION 06/10/2022

Overlap Start TimeOverlap End TimeOverlap Submit Date
  3:30PM   5:30PM   10/10/2018



Inspection determined facility to be in compliance with licensing rules.
Open Violations: 5
NOTE
The licensee is responsible for compliance with all licensing rules, including but not limited to the rules listed on this compliance report form.
Attendance at Time of Inspection
Total Staff 10
Total Children 46
StaffChildClass AgeNote
1 3 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Stephani Murray was with children ages 4-months-old to 7-months-old.
1 3 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Katlyn Guthrie was with children 7-months-old to 11- months-old.
1 2 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Marissa Luetkenhaus was with children ages 10- months- old.
1 4 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Shay Moody was with children ages 14- months- old to 18- months- old.
1 4 INFANTS AND TODDLERS Nazli Swati was with children ages 18- months- old to 23- months-old.
2 14 MIXED Brooke Dierker and Kaylee Williams were with ages 2-years-old and 4-years-old. 13-2-years-old and 1-4-years-old
1 8 PRESCHOOL Nicole Sieker was with children ages 3-years-old to 4-years-old.
2 8 PRESCHOOL Ashleigh Beavers and Emily Swain were with children ages 4-years-old and 5-years-old.

 
5 CSR 25-500.032 Organization and Administration
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.042 Licensing Process
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.052 Annual Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.082 Physical Requirements of Group Day Care Homes and Day Care Centers
Violation
 Provider Comments
Violation
The observed surface area under a slide on the toddler playground., from which a child might fall consists of grass.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.082 Physical Requirements of Group Day Care Homes and Day Care Centers (6) (A) 8. states: Concrete, asphalt, carpet, grass or bare soil is not an acceptable surface under outdoor equipment from which children might fall and be injured.
Correction Required
The facility shall not use concrete, asphalt, carpet, grass or bare soil under equipment from which a child might fall.

Correction Verification
Corrected on Site

Compliance Date
6/10/2022
Was corrected on site
Violation
Hazardous items as follows were accessible to children: Bottles Acrylic Paint and Glue Gun. The item(s) was/were located Items were located Tiny Tot B.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.082 Physical Requirements of Group Day Care Homes and Day Care Centers (1) (I) states: All flammable liquids, matches, cleaning supplies, poisonous materials, medicines, alcoholic beverages, hazardous personal care items or other hazardous items shall be inaccessible to children.
Correction Required
Hazardous items shall be inaccessible to children.

Correction Verification
Corrected on Site

Compliance Date
6/10/2022
Was corrected on Site. Both items were in a cabinet, the cabinet was not locked.
5 CSR 25-500.087 Fire Safety
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.090 Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.092 Furniture, Equipment and Materials
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.102 Personnel
Violation
 Provider Comments
Violation
The requirements for obtaining 12 clock hours each calendar year were not met. For the calendar year of 2021 , the staff listed need the following information: Nazli Swati needs 12 hours, Brittany Mesenbrink needs 12 hours, Amber Dreisewerd needs 2 hours, Kyleigh Childress needs 4 hours,.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.102 Personnel (3) (A) states: The center director, group child care home provider, all other caregivers, and those volunteers who are counted in staff/child ratios shall obtain at least twelve (12) clock hours of child-care related training during each calendar year. Clock hour training shall be approved by the department.
Correction Required
Required training hours shall be documented for each caregiver.

Correction Verification
Submit Documentation

Compliance Date

Violation
Staff Amber Dreiswerd and Nichole Sieker did not complete safe sleep training within 30 days of employment or volunteering at the facility.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.102 Personnel (4) (C) states: The center director, group child care home provider, all other caregivers, and those volunteers who are counted in staff/child ratios shall complete safe sleep training described in section (4) of this rule within thirty (30) days of employment or volunteering at the facility.
Correction Required
The department approved safe sleep training must be completed within 30 days of employment or volunteering.

Correction Verification
Submit Documentation

Compliance Date

Amber Dreisewerd does have current Safe Sleep Training, it was completed on 10/13/2021. This training was completed on Ambers first day of employment. Nichole Sieker does have current Safe sleep Training, it was completed on 05/02/2022. This training was completed on Nicholes first day of employment.
Violation
A caregiver did not submit the Clock Hour Training Reassignment form to apply current year's clock hours for the prior year. The following staff need clock hours reassigned to the previous year: Staff Stephani Murvai needs 6 hours moved from 2022 back to 2021, Kourtney Chaney needs 4 hours moved back from 2022 to 2021.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.102 Personnel (3) (K) states: Clock hours earned to complete the previous year’s requirements shall not be applied to the current year’s clock hour requirements. Caregivers shall submit the Clock Hour Training Reassignment form to the OPEN Initiative to assign clock hours to the appropriate year. See Clock Hour Training Reassignment form, revised 2021, and incorporated by reference in this rule. As published by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, PO Box 480, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 and available by the department at https://dese.mo.gov/childhood/forms.This rule does not incorporate any subsequent amendments or additions.
Correction Required
Caregivers shall submit the Clock Hour Training Credit Reassignment form to reassign current year's clock hours to the prior year.

Correction Verification
Submit Documentation

Compliance Date

5 CSR 25-500.112 Staff/Child Ratios
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.122 Medical Examination Reports
Violation
 Provider Comments
Violation
Medical examination report(s) was/were not on file for Britney Bartels, Ashleigh Beaver, Kortney Chaney, Amber Dreisewerd, Marissa Luetkenhaus, Shay Moody, Nichole Sieker, Nazli Swati, Kaylee Williams, Emily Swain as evidenced by a medical examination was not on file within 30 days of an individual beginning to work with children.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.122 Medical Examination Reports (1) (A) states: All persons working in a child care facility in any capacity during child care hours, including volunteers counted in staff/child ratios, shall be in good physical and emotional health with no physical or mental conditions which would interfere with child care responsibilities. These persons shall have a medical examination report, signed by a licensed physician or registered nurse who is under the supervision of a licensed physician, on file at the facility at the time of initial licensure or within thirty (30) days following employment.
Correction Required
Medical reports shall be on file as required.

Correction Verification
Submit Documentation

Compliance Date

Emily Swains hire date is 06/07/2022. Employees have 30 days within hire to obtain a medical exam. Emily is still in this 30 day window. Nazli Swati does have a current Medical examination report on file.
Violation
A medical examination report did not include either a completed Risk Assessment for Tuberculosis form or a negative tuberculin skin test (TST) within 12 months of the individual's begin date at the facility for the following staff: Britney Bartels, Ashleigh Beaver, Kortney Chaney, Amber Dreisewerd, Marissa Luetkenhaus, Shay Moody, Nichole Sieker, Nazli Swati, Kaylee Williams, Emily Swain.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-500.122 Medical Examination Reports (1) (B) . states: Medical examination reports shall include either a Tuberculosis (TB) Risk Assessment form, completed and signed by a health care professional, or a negative tuberculin skin test (TST) completed not more than twelve (12) months before beginning work in the facility. The Tuberculosis (TB) Risk Assessment form, revised March 2014, is incorporated by reference in this rule, as published by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 570, Jefferson City, MO 65102 and available by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services at https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/tuberculosis/tbmanual/pdf/RiskAssessmentform.pdf. If the person has signs or symptoms of tuberculosis, or risk factors for tuberculosis, then testing for tuberculosis shall occur.
Correction Required
Medical examination reports shall include Risk Assessment for Tuberculosis forms or negative tuberulin skin test (TST) as required.

Correction Verification
Submit Documentation

Compliance Date

Emily Swain does have a current TB Risk Assessment form on file. Nazli Swati does have a current TB Risk Assessment form on file.
5 CSR 25-500.132 Admission Policies and Procedures
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.142 Nighttime Care
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.162 Overlap Care of Children
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.172 Emergency School Closings
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.182 Child Care Program
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.192 Health Care
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.202 Nutrition and Food Service
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.212 Transportation and Field Trips
Compliance
5 CSR 25-500.222 Records and Reports
Compliance
5 CSR 25-600.020 General Requirements
Compliance
5 CSR 25-600.040 Background Screening Findings
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 — report made to another state, when. —
Compliance
RSMo 210.211.  License required - exceptions - written notice of licensure status, when.
Compliance