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DHS suspends Bellevue child care service’s license after multiple violations
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Tennessee Department of Human Services confirmed Harpeth Kindercare’s child care license was suspended Tuesday after officials found several supervision-related violations within the organization.
DHS said the suspension of the child care license comes after the department made numerous attempts to assist the organization in several violations they have made, including the following:
Violation of Safety Plan
On Aug. 16, 2022, Harpeth KinderCare was issued a modified Safety Plan by DHS Child and Adult Child Care that was related to the staffing shortages at the organization. The Safety Plan required that the organization only operate with ten classrooms, and those classrooms could be open “only as long as the classrooms are fully in compliance with DHS adult: child ratio rules at all times.”
On Sept. 1, 2022, while conducting a Safety Plan follow-up visit, Holly Cotton, a DHS licensing consultant, observed 12 children in the school-aged classroom. The children were two and a half years to seven years old. According to DHS rules, two-and-a-half-year-old children are not allowed to be combined with children over five.
Criminal background check requirements
On Aug. 5, 2022, Rasheta Flemmings, another DHS licensing consultant, conducted an in-person complaint investigation visit at the organization and found that one educator, Alexandra Cooper, was working in the 3-to-5-year-old classroom but had not completed the required criminal background check. According to DHS, Cooper had worked at Harpeth KinderCare since June 2022. No official hire date was reported. However, Flemmings noted a post-it note on file that said, “get a criminal background check.”
Staff files
While Flemmings was investigating on Aug. 5, 2022, it was determined that two staff members, Cooper and Tiffany Gattrell, did not have staff files at the agency for review. In addition, the acting director of Harpeth KinderCare, Caroline Clark, did not have a file on site.
Supervision
While conducting her complaint investigation on Aug. 5, 2022, Flemmings reported an unsupervised 4-year-old child on the agency playground. Educator Skye Bowden had said that she had to leave her classroom to retrieve the child from the playground, which resulted in the rest of the class being left unsupervised while she did so.
Flemmings reported that she also saw two children, age 2-1/2 years old, in one of the Harpeth KinderCare restrooms unsupervised. DHS said to get to the restroom; the children would have to walk from their classroom down a hallway and around the corner out of the sight of their educator.
When Flemmings asked the children’s educator why the children were allowed to go unsupervised, the educator gathered the remaining children in her classroom to go to the bathroom but failed to conduct a roll call before doing so. As a result, a hiding child was left behind in the classroom. Flemmings said it took three minutes for another educator to come into the classroom to retrieve the child that had been left behind.
On Aug. 23, 2022, while conducting a Safety Plan follow-up visit at the agency after it had reopened, Cotton reported a preschool-aged child washing their hands in the hallway unsupervised. The child’s two educators were in the classroom across the hall, seated on the floor where they couldn’t see the child.
The final violation observed by DHS officials was reported on Aug. 30, 2022, when a 2-year-old child used the bathroom unsupervised. Cotton noted that there was no other staff available to assist with supervising children in going to the bathroom. As a result, one of the other DHS officials at the time had to step in to help the child in the bathroom until the acting director arrived at the daycare.
“Compliance requires that qualified educators properly supervise children according to their age and required level of supervision. The agency must have sufficient staff present to ensure that supervision can be maintained during bathroom break times. Young children may never be sent out of a classroom to go to the bathroom unsupervised.
Playground supervision procedures for counting children must be followed to ensure that children are never left unsupervised. Unsupervised children, especially young children, are at imminent risk of harm.”
Playground supervision procedures for counting children must be followed to ensure that children are never left unsupervised. Unsupervised children, especially young children, are at imminent risk of harm.”A hearing was held Wednesday for Harpeth KinderCare to determine if there needs to be any emergency action, whether the child care agency has taken corrective measures high-quality following a violation of licensing laws, and whether the agency demonstrates a reasonable ability to maintain or continue compliance with all the relevant licensing laws and regulations.
KinderCare Learning Company officials provided the following statement:
“We’re a proud member of the Bellevue Harpeth community and have provided high quality child care at our Harpeth facility for nearly two years. This closure was not related to anything that would cause immediate harm to children and the State’s suspension was triggered by administrative issues. We know how critical child care is for our community, and we’re working closely with state licensing officials to reopen our center as soon as possible.
In the interim, we’ve successfully relocated many of our impacted families to nearby centers.”Copyright 2022 WSMV. All rights reserved.
New KinderCare in Saline looks to fill child care void
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A look inside the new Saline Moon Road KinderCare child care center at 7151 E. Michigan Ave. in Saline. The Saline Moon Road KinderCare location is led by Kristi Sloan, who has been a director at KinderCare for four years.Photo provided | KinderCare
SALINE, MI – When KinderCare was looking for locations to expand operations to, JT Talkington said the child care provider saw opportunity in Washtenaw County, where many parents are continuing to seek options.
“What we’re seeing from an operation standpoint is there’s definitely a demand for families that are looking for quality care,” said Talkington, senior district leader for KinderCare. “They’re looking for access to care, but also care that is elevated in educational offering.
We’re excited to help be a part of the community and to bring that to life through our curriculum and the programming that we offer.”
KinderCare Learning Centers recently opened its newest child care center at 7151 E. Michigan Ave. in Saline. The Saline Moon Road KinderCare location is led by Kristi Sloan, who has been a director at KinderCare for four years.
The center will provide care and early education for up to 124 children ages six weeks to 12 years old. The center also offers before- and after-school care for up to 24 children ages 5 to 12 years, with nine total classrooms.
Talkington said the Moon Road KinderCare offers a “robust” curriculum, meals and snacks, an outdoor playground and indoor gym. He described KinderCare’s curriculum as a hybrid program that combines child-led and teacher-led activities.
“You get a blend or what would traditionally be kind of Montessori-style learning with more structured, scheduled, teacher-led programs,” he said.
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Talkington said KinderCare had been looking to expand to locations like Saline, which had been identified as an ideal spot for expansion two years ago.
KinderCare’s working partnership with local school districts, Talkington said, gave the child care provider a sense of what type of demand there was for care among Washtenaw County families, specifically with before- and after-school care.
Demand has been highest, however, for the child care provider’s younger programs, Talkington said, including infants, toddlers and two-year-olds. KinderCare still has some enrollment slots available for preschool, pre-kindergarten and before- and after-school care.
“We have the educators to do it to meet that demand and we’ve seen that with our enrollment,” Talkington said. “There are definitely families that need care in the area.”
The biggest issue facing local child care providers has been finding qualified staff. The current business model for professional caregivers pits itself against each other, as it balances making enough money to stay in business with paying staff enough to keep them on board, Community Day Care Executive Director Laura Stidham said during a forum on child care forum in late October.
Since April 2020, nine child care centers and 21 home care centers have had to close, further impacting families in need of care, Stidham said.
Those losses, combined with Ann Arbor Public Schools’ announcement it was discontinuing school-aged child care for the 2021-22 school year in May, have indicated there is a need in Washtenaw County for child care.
After parents expressed frustration over how discontinuing the program will impact them, the district has agreed to offer before- and after-school programming for some students at five locations through its Rec & Ed department.
While the pandemic has presented challenges that have caused KinderCare to reshape its approach in building out a staff for the new site, Talkington said Sloan has been able to create partnerships with the local community, including different agencies and local colleges in hiring staff. Sloan could not be reached for comment for this story.
“It’s a good environment for educators to come into and really be able to deliver that elevated quality care for the children,” Talkington said.
“(Sloan) has got a staff that meets our current needs and we have room to grow.”
Enrollment costs vary depending the program and what type of financial assistance employers provide, Talkington said. More information on tuition and tuition assistance can be found on KinderCare’s website.
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