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5 CSR 25-300.020 Application for Annual Fire Safety and Health and Sanitation Inspections and Inspection Procedures
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5 CSR 25-300.040 Staffing Requirements
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Violation
A caregiver has not reviewed the rules of this chapter as evidenced by Keiandra Abernathy, Deanna Chapman, Tanika Moore.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.040 Staffing Requirements (2) states: All caregivers shall review the rules of this chapter.
Correction Required
All caregivers shall review the rules as required.
Correction Verification
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5 CSR 25-300.050 Health Requirements
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Violation
Medical examination reports, including TB testing, were not on file for Patrice Ruff, Rose Shipp, Sierra Phillips as evidenced by a cleared TB report was not on file for caregivers within 30 days of working in the facility.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.050 Health Requirements (1) (D) . states: All caregivers working in a facility during child care hours shall be in good health. They shall have a physical assessment, including a tuberculosis status assessment by a licensed physician or registered professional nurse. A physical assessment report, signed by a licensed physician or registered professional nurse, shall be on file at the time of employment or within thirty (30) days following employment.
Correction Required
Medical/TB reports shall be on file as required.
Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
Requirements for immunization reports on file were not met as evidenced by an immunization record was not on file the first day a child attended and there was no exemption on file.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.050 Health Requirements (3) states: Child care facilities shall meet immunization requirements for children as defined by section 210.003, RSMo.
Correction Required
Child immunization requirements shall be on file as required.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Requirements for children's medical examination reports were not met as evidenced by there was no medical examination report on file within 30 days of admission - the admission date(s) was/were greater than 30 days for 2 children.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.050 Health Requirements (2) states: Within thirty (30) days following the admission of an infant, toddler or preschool child, a physical assessment report signed by a licensed physician or registered professional nurse shall be on file at the facility. The facility may use the department's physical assessment form, MO 580-1878 (6-94), or the facility may use its own form if it contains all the information on the department's form. The report shall have been completed not more than twelve (12) months before admission.
Correction Required
Children's physical assessment reports shall be on file as required.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Medical examination reports, including TB testing, were not on file for Rose Shipp and Deanna Chapman 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 25-300.050 Health Requirements (1) (D) . states: All caregivers working in a facility during child care hours shall be in good health. They shall have a physical assessment, including a tuberculosis status assessment by a licensed physician or registered professional nurse. A physical assessment report, signed by a licensed physician or registered professional nurse, shall be on file at the time of employment or within thirty (30) days following employment.
Correction Required
Medical/TB reports shall be on file as required.
Correction Verification
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5 CSR 25-300.060 Responsibilities of Caregivers
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5 CSR 25-300.070 Fire Safety Requirements
Violation
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Violation
Requirements of 19 CSR 30-60.080 Fire Safety were not met as evidenced by the date and/or type of drill were not recorded.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.070 Fire Safety Requirements (5) (B) states: A written record shall be kept of the dates and types of drills conducted.
Correction Required
Fire and tornado drills shall be completed and recorded as required.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Requirements of 19 CSR 30-60.080 Fire Safety were not met as evidenced by tornado drills were not held at least one time every three months.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.070 Fire Safety Requirements (5) states: Fire and tornado drills shall be conducted at least every three (3) months and shall include all children in care. Unscheduled drills shall be held at the discretion of the state fire marshal or department. Each fire drill shall include a complete evacuation of all persons from the building.
Correction Required
Fire and tornado drills shall be completed and recorded as required.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Requirements of 19 CSR 30-60.080 Fire Safety were not met as evidenced by fire drills were not held at least one time every three months.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.070 Fire Safety Requirements (5) states: Fire and tornado drills shall be conducted at least every three (3) months and shall include all children in care. Unscheduled drills shall be held at the discretion of the state fire marshal or department. Each fire drill shall include a complete evacuation of all persons from the building.
Correction Required
Fire and tornado drills shall be completed and recorded as required.
Correction Verification
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5 CSR 25-300.080 Sanitation Requirements
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Violation
The facility was not clean, free of unsanitary conditions and free of pests as evidenced by director stated that they have rodents in the staff room.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.080 Sanitation Requirements (1) states: The premises of facilities shall be clean and free of unsanitary conditions and observable insects, spiders and rodents.
Correction Required
The facility shall be clean, sanitary and pest free.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Bathroom supplies were not available and accessible to children as evidenced by there was no toilet paper.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.080 Sanitation Requirements (2) (C) states: Paper towels or a hot-air dryer that is installed and maintained properly, soap and toilet paper shall be provided and accessible so the children can reach them without assistance.
Correction Required
Soap, paper towels or air dryer, and toilet paper shall be accessible.
Correction Verification
Corrected on Site
Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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5 CSR 25-300.090 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment
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Violation
The facility's outdoor space was not safe for children's activities as evidenced by the presence of the top rail of the fence on the west side was broken/bent and the top rail on the fence on the north side was broken and detached from the pole.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Equipment in the outdoor play area, the yellow police car, was unsafe as evidenced by metal screw anchor was sticking out of the ground 7".
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 4 (G) states: Outdoor equipment shall be safely constructed, in good condition, and free of sharp, loose or pointed parts. Stationary equipment such as swings, slides and climbers shall be anchored securely.
Correction Required
Play equipment shall be well maintained, safely constructed, free of sharp, loose or pointed parts; stationary equipment shall be anchored.
Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
The premises were not safe and suitable as evidenced by window in school-age room is broken with a crack approximately 12 inches long.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Hazardous items as follows were accessible to children: can of Lysol, gallon bottle of sanitizer, diaper cream. The item(s) was/were located on the diapering table and on the sink in the infant room.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
Corrected on Site
Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
The equipment, a yellow slide and blue climber , that is over 24 inches high, does not have sufficient impact absorbing material present as evidenced by bare soil in the fall zone area and large rock noted in blue climber fall zone.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
The facility's outdoor space was not safe for children's activities as evidenced by the presence of trash (pieces of plastic), tree limbs, and exposed landscaping presenting a tripping hazard.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
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Violation
Requirements for the outdoor play area were not met as evidenced by the fence had openings that were greater than 3 1/2 inches and allow entrapment - the openings measured 4 1/4" at the bottom of the gate.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 Physical Plant, Space, Supplies and Equipment 4 (A) states: An outdoor play area available on or adjoining the child care property. Facilities with a capacity of more than ten (10) children shall have a fenced play area. Play areas in facilities with a capacity of ten (10) or fewer children shall be fenced when necessary for the protection of children from traffic, water or other hazards. Fences shall be at least forty-two inches (42") high. Openings in fences shall be no greater than three and one-half inches (3 1/2").
Correction Required
The outdoor play area shall be on or adjoining the property and fenced as required.
Correction Verification
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Violation
The premises were not safe and suitable as evidenced by outlet covers missing in the community room, the infant room, and the preschool napping room.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
Submit Documentation
Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
Hazardous items as follows were accessible to children: can of Lysol, can of Endust, can of furniture polish, bottle of Windex. The item(s) was/were located on a desk and low shelf in the director's office (child observed to walk into the office and director said children are brought to the office for discipline at times).
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.090 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.
Correction Verification
Corrected on Site
Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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5 CSR 25-300.110 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records
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Violation
The facility did not meet requirements for child enrollment and health information on file as evidenced by 3 child files did not have the full name of the parent(s), guardian or legal custodian, home address, employers’ name and address, work schedule and home and work telephone numbers.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.110 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records 2 (B) states: The full name of the parent(s), guardian or legal custodian, home address, work schedule, home and work telephone numbers, and employer's name and address.
Correction Required
An individual file with required information for each child shall be maintained.
Correction Verification
Submit Documentation
Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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Violation
The facility did not meet requirements for child enrollment and health information on file as evidenced by 2 child files did not have the name, address and telephone number of another individual (friend or relative) who might be reached in an emergency.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.110 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records 2 (C) states: Full name, address and phone number of a friend or relative who might be reached in an emergency when a parent, guardian or legal custodian cannot be reached.
Correction Required
An individual file with required information for each child shall be maintained.
Correction Verification
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Violation
The facility did not meet requirements for child enrollment and health information on file as evidenced by 1 child files did not have the name and phone number of the family physician, or hospital, or both.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-300.110 Admission Procedures and Required Reports and Records 2 (D) states: Name and phone number of a physician and preferred hospital to be used in an emergency.
Correction Required
An individual file with required information for each child shall be maintained.
Correction Verification
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5 CSR 25-600.020 General Requirements
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Violation
The facility is operated by a religious organization that recieves federal funds for providing child care and criminal background check results were not on file for Deanna Chapman.
Licensing Rule Reference
5 CSR 25-600.020 General Requirements (1) states: Prior to the employment or presence of a child care staff member in a licensed, regulated, or registered child care facility not exempted by section 210.1080.13, RSMo, the child care provider shall request the results of a criminal background check for such child care staff member from the department.
Correction Required
Required results of criminal background checks shall be on file.
Correction Verification
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5 CSR 25-600.040 Background Screening Findings
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RSMo 210.003 Immunizations of children required, when, exceptions--duties of administrator, report--notification of parents, when.
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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.
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RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually.
Violation
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Violation
An approved Notice of Parental Responsibility was not on file for each child in care.
Licensing Rule Reference
RSMo 210.254 Religious organization operating facilities exempt under licensing laws required to file parental notice of responsibility and fire, safety inspections annually. 1. states: Child-care facilities operated by religious organizations pursuant to the exempt status recognized in subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of section 210.211 shall upon enrollment of any child provide the parent or guardian enrolling the child two copies of a notice of parental responsibility, one copy of which shall be retained in the files of the facility after the enrolling parent acknowledges, by signature, having read and accepted the information contained therein.
Correction Required
The Notice of Parental Responsibility shall be on file as required.
Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
5/3/2023
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RSMo 210.255 Religious organizations operating facility in violation, procedure - noncompliance after notice, prosecutor may act or attorney general.
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RSMo 252. Fire, safety, health and sanitation inspections, procedures - variances to rules granted when - rules authorized.
Violation
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Violation
Requirements for fire safety inspection were not met as evidenced by the inspection was not approved.
Licensing Rule Reference
RSMo 252. Fire, safety, health and sanitation inspections, procedures - variances to rules granted when - rules authorized. 1. states: All buildings and premises used by a child-care facility to care for more than six children except those exempted from the licensing provisions of the department of health and senior services pursuant to subdivisions (1) to (15) of subsection 1 of section 210.211, shall be inspected annually for fire and safety by the state fire marshal, the marshal's designee or officials of a local fire district and for health and sanitation by the department of health and senior services or officials of the local health department. Evidence of compliance with the inspections required by this section shall be kept on file and available to parents of children enrolling in the child-care facility.
Correction Required
An approved sanitation and fire/safety inspection shall be kept on file and be available as required.
Correction Verification
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Compliance Date
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Violation
Requirements for sanitation inspection were not met as evidenced by the inspection was not approved.
Licensing Rule Reference
RSMo 252. Fire, safety, health and sanitation inspections, procedures - variances to rules granted when - rules authorized. 1. states: All buildings and premises used by a child-care facility to care for more than six children except those exempted from the licensing provisions of the department of health and senior services pursuant to subdivisions (1) to (15) of subsection 1 of section 210.211, shall be inspected annually for fire and safety by the state fire marshal, the marshal's designee or officials of a local fire district and for health and sanitation by the department of health and senior services or officials of the local health department. Evidence of compliance with the inspections required by this section shall be kept on file and available to parents of children enrolling in the child-care facility.
Correction Required
An approved sanitation and fire/safety inspection shall be kept on file and be available as required.
Correction Verification
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