Incident investigation·April 10, 2024

On 4/10/2024 at 9;00, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Veronica Diaz conducted a Case management incident inspection at the Child Care Center (CCC), for the purpose of following up on the report of an Unusual Incident Report (UIR) received by the Department on 3/25/2024. Specifically, the incident involved a child in care, C1, was left unattended in the restroom. LPA met with Director Dawn Munden discuss the purpose of today's inspection. LPA notes 5 children and 1 staff were present during time of incident. Director Dawn Munden informed Licensing, C1 was left behind in bathroom. Staff counted students and made their way back to the classroom. Staff 1 seen C1 parent and asked Staff 2 where was C1, Staff 1 realized that C1 was not in either classroom, Staff 1 returned to the bathroom where C1 was located still inside. C1 has no prolonged effects related to the incident. Director contacted parent aboyt the incident that occurred. Parent reported that C1 will stay home for at least one day. C1 continues to be enrolled in the facility and parents have not expressed terminating services. LPA and Director discussed active supervision. Director reported CCC has conducted investigation and made proper updates to ensure this incident does not occur again. The circumstances were investigated by the administrator to determine what factors contributed to the incident and steps to prevent it from happening again are in place. The expectations regarding safety and supervision are and will continue to be strongly communicated to our staff through training and meetings. Staff 1 has received a written documentation of corrections and it will be recorded in her personnel file. CONT 809-C LPA investigated this incident and based interview with staff, P1, record reviews and LPA personal observation there is sufficient evidence in lack of supervision to support that resulted in C1 being left in the bathroom. Therefore, the following deficiencies will be sited today 101229 (a) (1) Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision (a) The licensee shall provide care and supervision as necessary to meet the children's needs. (1) No child(ren) shall be left without the supervision of a teacher at any time, Following the incident C1 continues to be enrolled in the CCC. During today’s inspection type B deficiencies was provided regarding Lack of supervision . Exit interview and review of report was conducted with Director Dawn Munden Notice of Site visit was provided and must remain posted for the next 30 days.