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A child care center in Benton, Arkansas 72015
3524 Alcoa Rd, Benton, Arkansas 72015. (501) 703-0457.
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The short answer
- 3 deficiencies in the last three years
- 1 at the state’s most serious level (needs attention)
- Sep 22026 the latest visit on record
- 113 children, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
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?
24 visits in the last three years, the latest on Sep 2, 2026.
3 deficiencies cited in the last three years, 1 of them serious.
No complaints listed by Arkansas.
Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Aug 25, 2026
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing and Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
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.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
Sep 2, 2026: child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit2 deficiencies
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All medications and poisonous substances shall be kept in separately locked areas.
“Corrective action completed: The medication was removed and placed in a locked area away from children.”
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Infants no longer held for feeding shall either sit in low chairs at low tables or in infant seats with trays, or in high chairs with wide bases. Safety straps shall be used if directed by the manufacturer.
“Corrective action completed: The staff placed the child in a seat with straps to finish the bottle.”
Aug 25, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency
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At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.
All 24 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2026 | Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Complaint Visit | 1 deficiency cited, 1 serious |
| May 7, 2026 | Transportation | No deficiencies cited |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Revisit Complaint | No deficiencies cited |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Complaint Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Complaint Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Complaint Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Complaint Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| May 14, 2025 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| May 16, 2024 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Dec 5, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No deficiencies cited |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Monitor Visit | No 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 40, Preschool License Type 39, School Age License Type 34.
- Capacity: 113 children.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Arkansas acted against it?
- No corrective action agreements listed by Arkansas.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 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?
- Owner, as Arkansas lists it: Brooke Plack.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
How is it rated?
- Better Beginnings: Level 3.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Comparisons appear once all of Saline County’s providers are read.
Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 2, 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.
Sources
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Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.
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Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.
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Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.
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Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.
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.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.
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