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Brilliant Little Minds @ Odessa Preschool

A licensed child care center in Townsend, Delaware 19734

570 Tony Marchio Dr, Townsend, Delaware 19734. (302) 842-2634.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.

The last 24 months 8 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Every month

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

What these words mean4
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.
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?

3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Feb 13, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

8 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

8 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

8 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
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 violation, in its source’s words

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

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 13, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Health appraisal with immunizations for Child #7, 9, and 10. Blood lead screening for Child #7.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 24, 2026.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure fire drills are done monthly. Send February and March to OCCL.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 2, 2026.

Feb 18, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Child Health Appraisal

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #1 and #4 need a health appraisal, immunizations, and blood lead screening. Child #3, 5, and 7 need a health appraisal with immunizations.”

    Rule 41U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 28, 2025.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure emergency water is on site. Send a picture.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 19, 2025.

  • License Renewal

    “Ensure state business license is posted. Send a copy to OCCL.”

    Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 18, 2025.

Jan 12, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs OCCL Health and Safety, application or resume, and release of employment. Staff #2 needs a professional development plan, and annual review of abuse and neglect.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 31, 2024.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Date of enrollment with hours and days of attendance is needed for Child #1-10. Health appraisal with immunizations and blood lead screening is needed for Child #2 and 3. Health appraisal with immunizations is needed for Child #6 and 7.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 29, 2024.

  • License Renewal

    “Ensure state business license is not expired. Send a copy to OCCL.”

    Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 19, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 13, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations cited
Feb 18, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited
Jan 12, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 3 years through 4 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 1491564.
  • Capacity: 34 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • No complaint investigations in the last three years.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.

Who owns it?

  • Delaware’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • No facility injuries reported. No facility deaths reported.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Providers aren’t compared: Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a count can’t tell a clean record from one never visited.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Bethesda Cdc/Spring Meadow Early Childhood CenterNot given
Bizzy Bee’s Early LearningNot given
Lifehouse Early Childhood CenterNot given
Diana’s Day CareNot given
YMCA of Delaware/Old StateNot given
YMCA of Delaware/TownsendNot given
Brilliant Little Minds @ Odessa Preschool This child care providerNot given
The Learning Hub AcademyNot given
Melanie WittNot given
YMCA of Delaware/Spring Meadow Early Childhood CenterNot given
Shari ColemanNot given
Violet WilliamsNot given

What the record doesn’t say

  • Delaware doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
  • Delaware’s open data lists a visit only when a violation was cited there, so visits that found nothing aren’t shown.
  • Delaware publishes five years of reviews and complaints; this page shows the last three.
  • Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
  • Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a provider with none listed may not have been visited at all: no count of violations is used to headline, filter or compare its providers.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing. Delaware’s own record is on data.delaware.gov. 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 Oct 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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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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