Learning Patch Children's Center
Learning Patch Children's Center was a licensed child care center in Orangevale, CA, licensed for up to 114 children. Its license closed around October 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 1 time and investigated 7 complaints, 3 substantiated, and issued 6 citations, 4 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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To be accorded safe, healthful and comfortable accommodations, furnishings and equipment to meet his/her needs. This requirement is not met as evidenced, it was found that there was verbal alteration between facility staff, while staff was holding a child 1 Facility agreed to conduct all staff training on children personal rights. and on different occasion, children got to observed a dead chicken in the play yard. Facility failed to prevent children from viewing the dead animal. This is considered as an immediate risk to the children in care. 8
To be accorded safe, healthful and comfortable accommodations, furnishings and equipment to meet his/her needs. This requirement is not met as evidenced, it was found that there children in Toddler classroom got bitten by a child multiple times. 1 Facility agreed to conduct all staff training on children personal rights and bitting policy. This is considered as an immediate risk to the children in care. 8
A licensed child day care facility shall provide to the parents or guardians of each child receiving services in the facility copies of any licensing report that documents any Type A citation that represents an immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights b 1 Facility representative agreed to provide the copies of the report to all currently enrolled parents and any family enrolled in next 12 months. of children in care as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1596.893b. The licensee shall keep verification of receipt in each child's file. This requirement is not met as evidenced from record review, LPA did not obsreve the acknowledgment from parents of receiving the Type A deficiency report from August 19, 2025, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. 8
To be accorded dignity in his/her personal relationships with staff and other persons. This requirement has not been met by evidence: Staff yelled at daycare children. This is considered as an immediate risk to the children in care. 1 Director has removed the accused staff from the facility and self-reported the incident. Director will provide training to LPA by poc date: 9/19/25.
To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living including eating, sleeping or toileting; or 1 Director stated that they will have training for the staff to prevent further occurrences from happening by POC date 8/20/2025. withholding of shelter, clothing, medication or aids to physical functioning. This requirement is not met by evidence: Staff#1 restrained a child by placing their body over the child's to prevent them from getting up during nap. This is considered as an immediate risk to the children in care. 8
LPA's record review and observation that three staff who were cleared but not associated to the facility provided. This constitutes a potential health, safety, and/or personal rights risk to children in care.
Complaint investigations
Staff yelled at staff in front of day care children.
Staff had an inappropriate interaction in the presence of day care children.
Staff did not prevent day care child from repeatedly biting other day care child while in care.
Facility did not provide parents with licensing reports documenting Type A deficiencies.
Staff yell at children.
About this center
Other licenses at this address
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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.
To read the full state reports, search facility number 343625307 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.