Potomac Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventist

22.1-289.035-B-2

“(Systemic deficiency) Providers must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee's first day of employment. There were no national criminal background check results in the record of Staff #3, who has been working for over a year and two months. Staff #3 was working alone with children. The national criminal background check results in the record for Staff #4 were overdue by one year and three months.”

22.1-289.035-B-1

“(Systemic deficiency) The center is required to obtain a completed sworn statement prior to the employee's first day of employment. The sworn statement for Staff #3 was completed more than 14 months after the first day of employment. The sworn statement for Staff #4 was completed more than two years and seven months after the first day of employment.”

8VAC20-770-40-D-2

“(Systemic deficiency) The center must obtain central registry search results within 30 days of employment. The central registry search results in the record of Staff #4 were overdue by more than one year and two months.”

22.1-289.031-B-6

“(Systemic deficiency) The center shall establish and implement procedures to ensure that all staff can recognize signs of child abuse and neglect. No staff had received Child Abuse and Neglect training to learn about how to recognize signs of abuse and neglect and mandated reporting requirements.”

22.1-289.031-B-3

“(Systemic deficiency) The center shall establish and implement procedures for a daily simple health screening and exclusion of sick children by a person trained to perform such screenings. No staff were trained in Daily Health Observation at the time of the inspection.”

22.1-289.031-B-1

“(Systemic deficiency) The center shall establish and implement procedures for hand washing by staff and children before eating and after toileting. The center has not established and implemented procedures for handwashing. Staff #3 stated the children wash their hands before and after snack. Staff #5 was unaware of any specific procedures.”

22.1-289.049-A

“Upon enrollment of a child in a regulated child day program, such child day program shall require that the person enrolling the child present the regulated child day program with the proof of the child's identity and age. There was no proof of identity or age in the file of Child #5.”

22.1-289.031-B-4

“Based on review of four child records, the religious exempt program did not implement procedures to ensure that all children in the center were in compliance with immunization provisions. Evidence: The record for Child D did not contain documentation of immunizations.”

22.1-289.031-B-1

“Based on observation, the religious exempt program did not implement procedures for hand washing by staff and children before eating. Evidence: On 2/22/24, at approximately 9:45am, the children transitioned from playing to cleaning up the classroom and then snack and did not wash their hands before they began eating their snack.”

22.1-289.031-B-5

“Based on observation, the religious exempt program did not implement procedures to ensure that all areas of the premises accessible to children were free of obvious injury hazards. Evidence: 1. Two electrical outlets were observed to be uncovered on 2/22/24, in a classroom of children who were four- to five-years-old. 2. A pile of approximately three or four rugs was observed in the classroom, and posed a tripping hazard.”

8VAC20-770-40-D-2

“Based on review of three staff records, the religious exempt program did not ensure that staff submitted a signed sworn disclosure statement prior to the first day of employment. Evidence: There were no sworn disclosure statements on record for Staff #1, with an employment date of 8/1/14; Staff #2, with an employment date of 7/1/19; or Staff #3, with an employment date of 8/16/18.”

22.1-289.031-B-2

“Based on observation, the religious exempt program did not implement procedures for appropriate supervision of all children in care. Evidence: On 2/22/24, from approximately 9:32am to 9:34am, a four-year-old child was observed walking out of the classroom, down the hall and into the restroom, and back to the classroom, without supervision. The teacher for the class was later observed leaving the classroom to look for another teacher, leaving the children in the classroom unsupervised for less than one minute.”