Mary Mcleod Bethune Early Child Development Nursery

The operation has been serving foods to children that are stored and/or cooked beyond the shelf-life/expiration dates, which is unsafe for consumption.

The director allowed a person that was found to need a background check, back into the operation after being told by a Child Care Regulation inspector, that they could not be present without a cleared background check.

The operation does not have documentation of monthly carbon monoxide detector testing.

Three fire extinguishers indoors and one fire extinguisher used for transportation in the van were observed to not be serviced. The pressure gauges are all now in the green zone and tagged with a current date of October 2023.

The outdoor playground was observed to have the following hazards: a broken table propped against the shed with legs sticking straight out, two chain fence doors propped up posing a fall hazard, a wooden table with broken seats and table top, posing hazards to the children. Also in the indoor infant classroom, a shelf that is broken with chiipped paint and tape.

The operation does not have documentaiton of monthly carbon monoxide detector testing.

Three fire extinguishers indoors and one fire extinghuiser used for transportation in the van were observed to not be servised and the pressure gauges in the red zone and expired.

Three sheets out of five cribs that were observed, have loose fitted sheets and a risk for entanglment.

The outdoor playground was observed to have the following hazards: a broken table propped against the shed with legs sticking straight out, two chain fence doors propped up posing a fall hazard, a wooden table with broken seats and table top, posing hazards to the children. Also in the indoor infant classroom, a shelf that is broken with chiipped paint and tape.

The fire inspection was observed to be expired.

Fire drill exit times were documented and observed to be over 3 minutes.

In the infant room there were seven infants to one caregiver.

An infant was viewed asleep in a bouncer upon inspection.

Four children were viewed hiding under an opening of the bleachers playing hide and seek.

A background check renewal was not done upon inspection and was inactive.

Hazardous materials were accessible to children under the children's sink. The hazardous materials were removed from the classroom upon inspection.

In two rooms there was chipped paint missing from the walls accessible to children. In another room there was a shelf that was missing pieces of wood and paint missing as well.

Three out of ten children's records were lacking their immunization records.

There was not enough loose fill in play zone areas.

Infant was in a bouncer prop up with a bottle.

One person was allowed to be present on 6/10/21 at the operation and had unsupervised access to children without having a cleared background check or FBI fingerprint on file. This person is contracted by the operation.