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A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. See the code sheet for the date of hire. Staff #1 was hired using a volunteer child abuse clearance dated 8/2/23. The CPSL states a volunteer clearance cannot be used for employment in child care. Staff #1 was working in child care at the time of this inspection. The CPSL requires clearances to be updated every 60 months. Staff #7 did not update their clearances every 60 months: child abuse (previous 8/29/16, update 9/24/21) and FBI (previous 8/29/16, current 9/23/21).

A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. Regulation requires staff to participate in annual fire safety training. The following staff did not participate in annual fire safety training: Staff #3 (previous 6/27/23, current 7/10/24), Staff #4 (previous 6/29/23, current 7/19/24), Staff #5 (previous 7/5/23, current 8/26/24) and Staff #6 (previous 5/25/23, current 6/18/24).

A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. See the code sheet for the date of hire. Staff person #2 has not completed the following required pre-service training within 90 days of their date of hire from an approved PQAS instructor: pediatric first aid/CPR. Staff #2 completed an unacceptable training on 5/22/24.

Staff person #10 (see code sheet for date of hire) who resided outside of Pennsylvania within the last five years did not obtain the missing out-of-state clearances until March of 2023 and November of 2023. Staff person #11 (see code sheet for date of hire) who resided outside of Pennsylvania within the last five years did not obtain the missing out-of-state clearance until November 2023. These clearances were required to be requested prior to working with children, and staff must have presented them within the first 45 days.

During the inspection, the emergency plan reviewed does not contain information about the continuity of operations.

Facility person #3 had a health assessment on file which did not include an examination for communicable diseases and the results of that examination or the physician or CRNP's assessment of the person's suitability to provide child care.

The fire detection system logs showed that the fire detection system was not tested every 30 days as evidenced by the following documented testing logs: 1/17/23 to 2/23/23, 3/16/23 to 4/19/23, 5/8/23 to 6/13/23, 7/3/23 to 8/17/23, 8/17/23 to 9/21/23, and 10/10/23 to 11/21/23.

During the inspection, there was no documentation on file which showed that the local traffic safety authorities had received an annual written notification of the facility and the program's use of pedestrian and vehicular routes around the childcare facility.

During the inspection, there was no written plan posted in any of the childcare spaces which identified how a child would be transported in the event of an emergency and what staffing provisions would be provided.

The record for staff person #5 did not include any education.

During inspection on 12/28/22 observed facility children served a lunch that did not include a dairy product.

Staff person #-1-2 have acceptable pediatric first aid/CPR training in an approved curriculum; however, the trainer has not provided documentation that they are PQAS-certified in that training topic.

Staff number 1 and staff number 2 were hired as provisional staff. Staff 1 & 2 have lived in another state within 5 years and do not have a record of out of state clearance and clearance request.