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25 | On 08/23/2021, A Annual/Random inspection was conducted at the facility by Licensing Program Analysts (LPA) Tran and Licensing Program Manager (LPM) Ho. LPAs observed licensee Mina De La Torre does not have any child in care at time of inspection. Licensee was operating within the licensed capacity as specified on license. A review of the Facility Personnel Report Summary on this date indicates all facility residents, staff, or other individuals who require caregiver background checks have received criminal record and child abuse index clearances or exemption. Facility Day care hours are 6AM-6PM, Monday through Friday.
During today’s inspection, LPAs and licensee toured the inside and outside areas identified in the facility sketch as accessible to childcare children. The facility is a single-story home with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, front yard (not fenced), back yard(fenced), and attached garage. The licensee has designated the one bathroom, one bedroom, dining room, and back yard (fenced), as part of the day-care. The Licensee has designated three bedrooms, one bathroom, living room, kitchen, laundry room, front yard, and garage as the off-limit areas. Licensee has placed a safety gates at both entrances of the kitchen, a safety gate at the entrance of the living room, and a safety doorknob on the door leading to the off-limit bedrooms, she has also placed a safety doorknob on the bedrooms door, ensuring these areas are inaccessible to children in care.
Family members residing at facility are 2 adults and 3 children. The children walk through the hallway to the bathroom. Licensee stated the children's primary area is the childcare room. There are working carbon monoxide, smoke detector, and fire extinguishers in the home that meet statutory and State Fire Marshall standards. Detergents, cleaning compounds, medicines, and other items which could pose a danger if readily available to children were stored inaccessible to children. Licensee stated there are not firearms and/or other dangerous weapons in the facility, and none were observed during today's inspections. There is a fireplace and/or an open-faced heater in the living room screened by cover and inaccessible to children in care. The home has age appropriate toys for the ages served.
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