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A child care center in Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401

A child care center in Craighead County, Arkansas

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The short answer

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: Non-Compliant. Every month

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What these words mean6
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
The state’s most serious level
Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

8 visits in the last three years, the latest on Jul 20, 2026.

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years, none of them serious.

No complaints listed by Arkansas.

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing and Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: Non-Compliant. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Jul 20, 2026: child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit3 deficiencies
  • There shall be a safe diaper changing table that meets the following requirements:

    Rule 1100.1107.2.a. Non-Compliant.

  • The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:

    Rule 600.604.1.k. Non-Compliant.

  • The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:

    Rule 600.604.1.l. Non-Compliant.

All 8 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 20, 2026Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit3 deficiencies cited
Mar 17, 2026Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jul 15, 2025Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 4, 2025Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 1, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jun 26, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Feb 20, 2024Children’s Records; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Jan 24, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Child Care Center.
  • Provider type: Center Based.
  • Voucher Participant (School Readiness Assistance).
  • Approved capacity by age group: Infant/Toddler License Type 10, Preschool License Type 15.
  • Capacity: 25 children.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Arkansas acted against it?

  • No corrective action agreements listed by Arkansas.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Arkansas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Arkansas’s record lists no owner for this provider.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How is it rated?

  • Better Beginnings: Level 3.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 66 child care providers in Craighead County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 3.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • Arkansas’s visit records cover the last three years only.
  • Arkansas lists the regulation each deficiency cited, not what the licensing staff saw.
  • Arkansas lists complaints and the regulations their investigations cited, not what was alleged.
  • Its name isn’t shown because it is a person’s name; Arkansas’s own record has it.
  • Its street address and phone number aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood. Arkansas’s own record is on ardhslicensing.my.site.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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How to read a record

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An example nursing home

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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