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Karen Mendoza

An experienced family child care home in Evans, Colorado 80620

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The short answer

Record last released by Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 14 citations in 4 months of the last 46. Last cited Feb 2025. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
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.
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?

CDEC’s file lists 6 inspections, investigations and complaints from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026, the latest on Jan 23, 2026 (Supervisory).

14 citations in all.

Where Colorado posts its reports: Colorado Shines.

Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

When those citations happened

14 citations in 4 months of the last 46. Last cited Feb 2025. The last 4 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

14 citations by month over the last 4 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 citation, in its source’s words

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

Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

Feb 11, 2025: supervisory (case 218458)5 citations
  • An admission record must be completed for each child prior to or at the time of the child’s admission and updated annually or when any changes occur, unless otherwise specified in these rules. Parent(s) and guardian(s) home and e-mail addresses; telephone numbers, including home, work, and cell numbers ; employer name and work address; and any special instructions as to how the parent(s) or guardian(s) may be reached during the hours that the child is in care at the family child care home;

    Rule 2.320.A.2. CDEC’s category: Admission/Child Care Services. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Feb 11, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 9, 2025.

  • An admission record must be completed for each child prior to or at the time of the child’s admission and updated annually or when any changes occur, unless otherwise specified in these rules. The admission record must include: Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons who can assume responsibility for the child in the event of an emergency if the parent(s) or guardian(s) cannot be reached immediately;

    Rule 2.320.A.4. CDEC’s category: Admission/Child Care Services. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Feb 11, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 9, 2025.

  • An admission record must be completed for each child prior to or at the time of the child’s admission and updated annually or when any changes occur, unless otherwise specified in these rules. The admission record must include: Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the child’s health care provider, dentist, and hospital of choice, if applicable;

    Rule 2.320.A.5. CDEC’s category: Admission/Child Care Services. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Feb 11, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 9, 2025.

  • An admission record must be completed for each child prior to or at the time of the child’s admission and updated annually or when any changes occur, unless otherwise specified in these rules. The admission record must include: Health admission information, including health care plans, chronic medical conditions, allergies, and immunization history, shall be provided to the family child care provider prior to the first day the child attends the family child care home;

    Rule 2.320.A.6. CDEC’s category: Admission/Child Care Services. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Feb 11, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 9, 2025.

  • Statements of health status of children less than two (2) years of age must be updated as required in writing by the health care provider, or in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care recommended schedule at https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/periodicity_schedule.pdf,(4th ed. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017) herein incorporated by reference. No later editions or amendments are incorporated. These recommendations are available at no cost from https://www.aap.org/. These recommendations are also available for public inspection and copying at the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, 710 S. Ash St., Denver, CO 80246, during regular business hours..

    Rule 2.321.A.4. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 11, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 9, 2025.

Sep 3, 2024: injury (case 237745)5 citations
  • An admission record must be completed for each child prior to or at the time of the child’s admission and updated annually or when any changes occur, unless otherwise specified in these rules. The admission record must include: A written record of any reportable accident, illness, or injury as defined in rule section 2.124 of “The Geneal Rules for Child Care Facilities” occurring during care must be retained in each child’s record, with a copy provided to the parent or guardian;

    Rule 2.320.A.8. CDEC’s category: Child Records. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 3, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

  • All personal medications, vitamins, and supplements of the primary provider, applicant 2, staff members, or any residents of the home must be locked and inaccessible to children.

    Rule 2.321.B.8.c. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 3, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

  • The primary provider, applicant 2, equally qualified provider, qualified substitute, and staff members must develop/provide an environment that minimizes the risk to children from hurting themselves or each other.

    Rule 2.328.I. CDEC’s category: Health/Sanitation/Children’s Care. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 3, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

  • Physical, mechanical, and chemical restraint shall never be used.

    Rule 2.331.D. CDEC’s category: Guidance/Learning. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 3, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

  • Flammable or combustible items must be stored in a locked area remote from the kitchen, and at least three (3) feet from the furnace, hot water heater or any other heating device. These items include, but are not limited to, paints, fuels, insecticides, and other hazardous chemicals.

    Rule 2.336.C.11. CDEC’s category: Safety Requirements. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 3, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

Apr 17, 2023: original Change of Location/Type (case 197361)2 citations
  • An Experienced Child Care Provider (ECCP) home requirements:Have completed ninety (90) clock hours of training within the preceding six (6) years, including the State Department approved infant/toddler course. The ninety (90) hours of training does not include licensing training universal precautions, First Aid and CPR, and medication administration training;

    Rule 7.707.22.F.2.b. CDEC’s category: ECCP. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Apr 17, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Apr 23, 2023.

  • An Experienced Child Care Provider (ECCP) home requirements:Comply with local zoning restrictions

    Rule 7.707.22.F.2.e. CDEC’s category: ECCP. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Apr 17, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Apr 23, 2023.

Feb 21, 2023: supervisory (case 175659)2 citations
  • Within thirty (30) days after admission, and within thirty (30) days following the expiration date, the parent or guardian of each child must submit a statement of the child’s current health status or written verification of a scheduled appointment with a health care practitioner. The statement of the child’s current health statusmust be signed and dated by a health care provider who has seen the child within the last twelve (12)months, or within the last six (6) months for children under two and one-half (2-1/2 ) years of age. The statement must include when the next visit is required by the health care provider. All health statementsmust be kept at the licensed child care home.

    Rule 7.707.71.A.2. CDEC’s category: Child Records. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 20, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 12, 2023.

  • The provider must obtain written authority to arrange for emergency medical care for each child. Written authorization to obtain emergency medical care must be on file prior to or on the first day of admission and must be re-authorized annually.

    Rule 7.707.71.B.1. CDEC’s category: Admission/Child Care Services. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Feb 21, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 12, 2023.

All 6 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 23, 2026Supervisory (case 252522)No citations; cleared Jan 23, 2026.
Feb 11, 2025Supervisory (case 218458)5 citations; cleared Mar 9, 2025.
Sep 3, 2024Injury (case 237745)5 citations; cleared Sep 10, 2024.
Mar 5, 2024Supervisory (case 196230)No citations; cleared Mar 5, 2024.
Apr 17, 2023Original Change of Location/Type (case 197361)2 citations; cleared Apr 23, 2023.
Feb 21, 2023Supervisory (case 175659)2 citations; cleared Mar 12, 2023.

Is it licensed?

  • Colorado’s service type: Experienced Family Child Care Home; licensed by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
  • Licensed for 9 children.
  • Colorado’s licence number: 96467.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

What did complaints and investigations find?

  • CDEC’s file lists no complaints or Stage II investigations for this program from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026.
  • Neither CDEC’s roster nor its file of inspections lists enforcement actions, such as fines or the revocation of a licence.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

Who does the caring?

  • Colorado doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs in this dataset.

Who owns it?

  • Colorado’s dataset lists its governing body as NA.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

How is it rated?

  • Colorado Shines: Level 2 of five, as Colorado rates it (awarded Aug 14, 2026, valid until Aug 14, 2029).
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Programs aren’t compared with each other here: CDEC’s file doesn’t grade its citations by how serious they are.
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What the record doesn’t say

  • Inspections, investigations and complaints are from the file CDEC sent for a data request, from Jan 1, 2023, and the file it sends each month since. CDEC says its file may miss a program licensed during that time that is no longer licensed, and that its records may change as they are updated or finalized.
  • CDEC’s file gives each rule cited, its category, and the days set to correct it and to clear the case, but not what the inspector wrote: Colorado Shines has each monitoring report. CDEC doesn’t grade citations by how serious they are.
  • This page is built from the dataset of licensed child care facilities CDEC publishes monthly on data.colorado.gov, so a program licensed or closed since may be missing or still shown. It leaves out 24-hour licence types and care that is exempt from licensing.
  • Colorado’s roster carries no enforcement actions, hours or staffing levels.

Sources

  • Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report (data.colorado.gov, a9rr-k8mu).

    Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). data.colorado.gov’s terms ask for this disclaimer: “The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. THE STATE OF COLORADO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the Web feed is being used at one’s own risk.” Facts are extracted; monitoring reports are not republished.

  • Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023.

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Oct 29, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it. No licence stated: CDEC sent this file for a data request that said it would be shown on a free public website. Its disclaimer says the data “is now subject to open records law”. Shown free, never sold.

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC). Colorado’s own record is on coloradoshines.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.

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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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