The Merit School of Manassas (#47)

8VAC20-780-140-A

Each child shall have a physical examination by or under the direction of a physician within 30 days after the first day of attendance. There was no physical on file for child B. The physical was overdue by 2 days.

8VAC20-780-150-B

Each report shall include the dates immunizations were received and shall be signed by a physician, his designee, or an official of a local health department. The immunization record for child A and B were not signed by a physician/designee/health department. The signatures were overdue by 2 months for child A and by 1 month for child B.

8VAC20-780-190-B

Program directors without management experience shall have one college course in a business-related field, 10 hours of management training, or one child care management course that satisfactorily covers the management functions of planning, budgeting, staffing and monitoring. Management experience is defined as at least six months of on the job training in an administrative position that requires supervising, orienting, training and scheduling staff. There was no information or documentation provided to show that the director ( Staff A) has management experience to include staff training and orienting.

8VAC20-780-330-B

Where playground equipment is provided, resilient surfacing shall comply with minimum safety standards when tested in accordance with the procedures described in the American Society for Testing and Materials standard F1292-99. The mulch surrounding the composite climbing structure and underneath and surrounding the swings on the Pre-K playground was compacted and had degraded to soil. Soil is not an acceptable resilient surface.

8VAC20-780-510-E

The center's procedures for administering medication shall include duration of the parents authorization for medication, provide that it shall expire or be renewed after 10 work days. Long-term prescription drug use and over the counter medication may be allowed with written authorization from the child's physician and parent. The long term authorization form signed by the physician for medications for child C was missing the center's name as to whom the physician was granting authorization for the administration of two medications.

8VAC20-780-60-A-8

A written care plan is required from a physician for each child with a diagnosed food allergy. There was no written care plan from a physician for child #1's food allergy,