Plan to Correct

The program states they will make sure to have the therapists work with their children outside of the classrooms, she will have to double check for the children who have therapy through-out the day, if they are able to work with their children outside of the classrooms but they will ensure this is implemented. She stated the program will ensure when the children are going to the bathroom they will also be supervised considering this incident seemed to have occurred in the bathroom. She stated we have been working here a long time and we can get complacent, so the program is going to work on this with staff, a refresher course.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-287(a) - Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.

Plan to Correct

Special Care Inc. is going to have Bethesda monthly visits with kids. The child has support from an Autism clinic 5 hours a day. The kids are now to have direct visual supervision at all times.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-287(a) - Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.

Plan to Correct

The program serves infants through kindergarten students in childcare classrooms that are separate from first grade through high school students in designated school-age classrooms. School-age students who are eighteen or older are supported in the wing of the building (added 2014) separate from all childcare classrooms. The interaction of school-age students eighteen or older with childcare students is limited to actively supervised, inclusive, schoolwide activities that use strategic grouping to ensure safety of all students. At drop off and pick up, while families supervise their own children, school-age students may pass childcare students in shared hallways.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-276(a)(1) - Care of children. The program:

Plan to Correct

The program terminated the personnel responsible. The program held a meeting to remind staff to ensure locked doors remain locked and no children have access to those areas. The program now requires staff to store all cleaning products on high shelves in the locked rooms. The program is hiring a new safety enforcement officer to purchase cleaning supplies, review ingredients, and distribute to classrooms.

Regulation Description

340:110-3-287(a) - Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.

Plan to Correct

Regulation Description

340:110-3-298(f)(5)(A) - Bottles are not propped by any means at any time.