complaint·July 19, 2022

(page 2) Child Care Centers are required to report individual covid19+ cases or exposures to Public Health and State Licensing, which was communicated to all facilities via PIN (Provider Information Notice) 20-11 CCP. In addition, this requirement was linked in a PIN 22-10 CCP. In this PIN is a link to the most updated Guidance for Child Care Providers and Programs from CA Department of Public Health. In this Guidance it specifically states that in a child care center, if there is an individual exposure or case of covid19+ it must be reported to the local CCL regional office. From this information LPA determined that there was a preponderance of evidence to support the allegation that the facility failed to follow reporting requirements of a covid19+ case. Based on the information gathered over the course of the investigation by LPA, it was determined that the preponderance of evidence standard was met and the allegation is substantiated. The substantiated allegation constitute a violation of Reporting Requirements; Title 22 Regulation sections 101212(d), respectively. One B violation is cited and can be reviewed on the attached LIC9099D page. Appeal Rights and deficiencies were discussed. The facility representative was provided a copy of their appeal rights (LIC 9058) and their signature on this form acknowledges receipt of these rights. All appeals must be in writing and received by the Regional Office within 15 business days. A notice of site visit was given and must remain posted for 30 days. Exit interview conducted and report was reviewed with the facility representative during the time of the inspection on today's date 7/19/22. (page 2) Based on this gathered information, the allegations of Facility did not prevent the spread of a disease and Staff are not sanitizing facility, were not determined to have a preponderance of evidence to support them. Additionally, LPA was unable to demonstrate that these allegations or that the facility at any point in the past was out of compliance of Daily Inspection for Illness, children's personal rights, or Buildings and Grounds related to cleaning/sanitizing. LPA was unable to make the determination from the information gathered that these allegations did not ever occur, or that there wasn't a preponderance of evidence to support these allegations, at some point. Due to this reasoning the most factual finding on the allegations, with all available information to LPA during the investigation are unsubstantiated. Based on all this information LPA gathered, the preponderance of evidence standard for the allegations was not met, therefore the above allegations are found to be unsubstantiated. From all of the available information obtained by LPA during the course of the investigation, that there is insufficient evidence indicating that the Facility did not prevent the spread of a disease or Staff are not sanitizing facility. Based on all of the information LPA gathered, LPA was not able to determine that these allegations were false or untrue. Therefore LPA cannot make the determination that these allegations are unfounded; and the most accurate findings would remain at unsubstantiated. Although the allegations may have happened or are valid, there is not a preponderance of evidence to prove the alleged violations did or did not occur; therefore, the allegations are unsubstantiated. Exit interview was conducted, and report was reviewed and discussed. Notice of Site Visit was posted during the visit. The facility representative was informed that the Notice of Site Visit must be posted for 30 consecutive days. Failure to post will result in civil penalties of $100 per day. The facility was provided a copy of their appeal rights (LIC 9058 12/15) and their signature on this form acknowledges receipt of these rights.