Hilltop Child Development Center Inc West

2025

1. High risk11/20/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (a) Each applicant, each applicant with a temporary permit, and each licensee shall ensure that supervision is provided by a person 16 years of age or older who is responsible for the health, safety, and well-being of each child in care.

   Supervision was not provided when one infant crawled out of the room, down to the kitchen unattended. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-008415)

   Not corrected
2. Medium-High risk9/29/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (c) (1) (E) withholding or forcing foods, toilet use, or rest; and

   Per collateral contacts, staff member in the toddler (Junebugs) classroom, was taking away milks as a punishment (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-007470)

   Not corrected
3. Medium-High risk6/18/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-439 Child care centers: food service. (j) Food allergies or special dietary needs of specific children shall be known to all staff members. If any child with a food allergy or a special dietary need is enrolled, the following shall be met:

   A staff member gave a child bread with egg baked into it when child has an egg allergy. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-004323)

   Not corrected
4. High risk6/10/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-125 Background checks. (e) ensure that no individual works, regularly volunteers, or resides in the facility until the results of the individual's background checks verify that the individual is not prohibited from working, regularly volunteering, or residing in a facility pursuant to K.S.A. 65-516, and amendments thereto.

   Individual working, volunteering, or residing in facility and background check results remain pending. (Licensing survey — Annual Survey — 25-002049)

   Not corrected
5. High risk4/17/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (a) Each applicant, each applicant with a temporary permit, and each licensee shall ensure that supervision is provided by a person 16 years of age or older who is responsible for the health, safety, and well-being of each child in care.

   Supervision was not maintained in the classroom while a teacher was on their personal phone. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-002947)

   Not corrected
6. Medium-High risk2/5/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-439 Child care centers: food service. (j) Food allergies or special dietary needs of specific children shall be known to all staff members. If any child with a food allergy or a special dietary need is enrolled, the following shall be met:

   A staff member gave a child caramel who was on a ketogenic diet for seizures. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

   Not corrected
7. High risk2/5/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-430 Health practices; illness and abuse; general health requirements for staff. (c) (3) Each staff member shall report within 24 hours to the Kansas department for children and families any suspected child abuse or neglect.

   Staff members did not report suspected abuse to the Department for children and families within 24 hours. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

   Not corrected
8. High risk2/5/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (c) (1) (B) mental and emotional cruelty, including verbal abuse, threats, derogatory remarks about the child or the child's family, or statements which tend to shame, humiliate, or frighten the child;

   A staff member engaged in verbal abuse with several children, yelling at them with an aggressive tone of voice. The individual said things like, "I don't even feel sorry for you!", and, "You are going to sit there while we all watch you cry!" (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

   Not corrected
9. Medium risk2/5/2025

   K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (c) (1) (D) confining the child in a high chair, a play yard, a crib, a closet, a locked room or area, a box, or a similar enclosure;

   A staff member used a cart that was used for storing napping cots to block two children in a closet, so that the children were not roaming around the room while the staff members were setting out the cots. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

   Not corrected
10. High risk2/5/2025

    K.A.R. 28-4-132 Child care practices. (c) (1) (A) Corporal punishment, including hitting with the hand or any implement, slapping, swatting, shaking, pulling hair, yanking the arm, excessive exercise, exposure to extreme temperatures, and any other measure that produces physical pain or threatens the child's health or safety;

    A staff member engaged in corporal punishment when the individual grabbed children by the arms and forcefully set them down in chairs and on the floor. The individual also pulled chairs out from under children, causing them to fall to the floor. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

    Not corrected
11. High risk2/5/2025

    K.A.R. 28-4-125 Background checks. (a) (3) before allowing any individual to work, regularly volunteer, or reside in the facility and before allowing any individual whose activities involve either supervised or unsupervised access to children to be in the facility;

    Facility did not submit identifying information for seven individuals that were working onsite as required to complete background checks. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 25-000804)

    Not corrected