The Children's Home

A caregiver attempted to gain leverage by holding on to a child's hair resulting in the child hair being pulled.

A caregiver placed his hand over the child's mouth while conducting a short personal restraint.

A caregiver failed to use de-escalation skills prior conducting a short personal restraint on a child.

3 of 5 child records suicide screening were not completed on time.

The operation failed to ensure that weekly screenings were completed following a child being discharged for a behavioral health hospital. The child was discharged on 1/8/25 and suicide screenings were completed on 1/14/25 and 2/5/25.

A child was placed at the operation on 12/26/24 and a preliminary service plan was not completed until 12/31/24.

A child in care did not have his dental exam completed.

two of five childrne were missing the TB test.

A child in care did not have his annual medical exam completed in time.

A child in care made statements of self-harm and the operation failed to appropriately conduct a suicide screening.

On multiple occasions an overnight caregiver was engaged in other activities that disrupted routine supervision and job duties as the sole caregiver counted in ratio.

Caregiver did not complete Normalcy training with in the 12 months of the previous training.

Staff record had a written note as proof of training credentials.

Cottage toilet was leaking water.

Non prescription medication was not documented in the child's record.

3 out of 4 child admission records reviewed were not completed prior to the child's admission/placement.

All medications logs in 4 cottages did not reflect the time medication was given to the child.

Two of the two discharge records reviewed did not have the date and circumstances of the discharge.

Staff and caregivers did not update the active record for multiple children.

Caregivers failed to document a child's refusal to accept medication.

During an afterhours inspection a railroad tie on the playground was split and cracked about 2 1/2 inches.

During an afterhours inspection one cottage had several expired medications dates were 10/2021, 4/2022,5/2022.

Disciplinary action was imposed on an entire cottage.

A caregiver failed to supervise a child in care resulting in the child engaging in inappropriate behavior.

A caregiver did not complete the initial CPR/First Aid within 90 days of employment.

5 out of 5 service plans used verbatim supervision. It was not specific to each child.

2 of 6 non emergency admissions were not completed prior to admissions.

A caregiver made comments towards a child in care that belittle her and offended her ethnicity.