Elijah Gate Christian Center

22.1-289.031-B-5

“Repeat Violation The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children are free of obvious injury hazards, including providing and maintaining sand or other cushioning material under playground equipment. In the inside play area, 4 vents on the floor were not attached to the floor creating a tripping hazard.”

22.1-289.035-B-2

“The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee's first day of employment. Staff #3, did not have a completed national criminal background check prior to the employees first day of employment. It was received 5 days after the first day of their employment.”

22.1-289.031-B-3

“The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to do a daily simple health screening and exclusion of sick children by a person trained to perform such screenings. A staff member stated they have parents sign a health questionnaire for the child prior to arrival and check the children at the door, but they have not been formally trained.”

22.1-289.031-B-5

“The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children are free of obvious injury hazards, including providing and maintaining sand or other cushioning material under playground equipment. The center's playground equipment had four separate areas with fall zones and did not maintain cushioning material under the playground equipment. The Three Year Old Classroom had Christmas lights hanging down around the windows in reach of children. The Four Year Old Classroom had 2 extensions cords plugged in to the other and were creating a tripping hazard and a another cord for a heater was also creating a tripping hazard.”

22.1-289.031-A-6

“The following aspects of the child day center's operations are described in a written statement provided to the parents or guardians of the children in the center and made available to the general public: physical facilities, enrollment capacity, food services, health requirements for the staff, and public liability insurance. The written statement was not provided to the parents of Child #1 who has been enrolled approximately 1 month and 2 weeks.”

22.1-289.035-A

“The Religiously Exempt Child Day Center is required to have employees undergo a background check every five years. The most recent central registry check was overdue by 1 year and 5 months and the Sworn Disclosure Statement was overdue by approximately 10 months for Staff #5.”

22.1-289.035-B-2

“Based on review of three staff records, the Religiously Exempt Child Day Center did not have the fingerprint results prior to the 1st day of employment for one staff. Evidence: 1. Staff #2 (start date 5/25/2022) had fingerprint results dated 6/03/2022.”

22.1-289.035-B-4

“Based on review of three staff records, the Religiously Exempt Child Day Center did not obtain a copy of the results of a criminal history record information check or sex offender registry check from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years. Evidence: 1. Staff #2(start date 5/25/2022) and Staff #3 (start date 12/06/2021) lived in other states in the last 5 years and did not have the sex offender registry check for any of the States and also did not have the criminal history check for Nebraska or Texas for Staff #3.”