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13 | At 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Karyn Guerra met with Licensee, Elizabeth Maddy, to conduct a complaint inspection and deliver findings. It was alleged that staff are giving daycare children melatonin everyday before nap time without parent's consent. Throughout the course of the investigation, LPA conducted interviews, made observations, and obtained documents. LPA came to learn that C1 and C2 are given melatonin as a sleep aid. LPA observed signed medication forms from parents/guardians authroizing the melatonin to be administered to C1 and C2. Parental Authorization was confirmed by LPA via parent interviews. Staff signed off on the medication forms each day when the dose was administered to C1 and C2. Interviews with staff, children, and parents were consistent that C1 and C2 receive melatonin and did not reveal concerns that other children were receiving it without authorization. The evidence did not corroborate the allegation. The allegation is found to be
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