Bayhealth Child Care and Early Learning Center
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19901
150 Scull Terrace, Dover, Delaware 19901. (302) 744-7182.
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The short answer
Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.
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?
2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Nov 10, 2025; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
7 violations cited in the last three years.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
7 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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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 |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
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.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Nov 10, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs a PD plan. Four staff need OCCL’s health and safety training. One staff needs an application or personal data sheet. Two staff need a job description. Four staff need reference letters. Two staff need health appraisals with TB screenings. Two staff need service letters with two documented attempts or two additional reference letters.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure each classroom has a foot activated trash cans for disposing of diapers.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure Medication Administration Records are on file for children’s medications. Two children need MARs.”
Nov 13, 2023: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure Staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs OCCL’s Health and Safety training. Staff#2 and #3 need service letters with 2 documented attempts. Staff #5 and #6 needs health appraisal with TB test results.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure trash can in bathroom is covered. Trash can in toddler room needs a lid.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure food items are labeled with contents and expiration dates. Food in cabinet in the Toddler Room Kitchen was observed with dates open dates only.”
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Toilet Facilities
“Ensure bathrooms have either one operable window or ventilation fan. Ventilation fan in Toddler Room was not working. This was discussed at visit and a work order was submitted.”
All 2 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 violations cited |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 8 weeks through 5 years.
- Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
- Licence number 28242.
- Capacity: 78 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 3 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (2), Unsubstantiated with Concern (1).
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
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| Dec 10, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on November 25, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for improper discipline because video footage shows a staff member using a hand-over-hand method to show the child how to clean up his mess on the floor, however, the handling of the child appeared rough. Administrator #1 used the video footage as a teaching tool and provided additional support to the staff. |
| Jul 15, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On February 28, 2024, a self-report was called into the Child Abuse and Neglect Report Line and accepted for investigation by the Institutional Abuse Unit (IA). It was also sent to the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) and accepted for investigation regarding improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on March 6, 2024. On June 25, 2024, Institutional Abuse Investigator stated the case will be closed as unsubstantiated with concern for improper handling of a child resulting in injury. This self-reported complaint is substantiated by OCCL for improper discipline because video footage shows two staff members pulling on a child s arm and roughly handling them to get them to comply. The two staff members involved were put on leave and then their employment was terminated by the center. |
| Jun 25, 2024 | IA Investigation: Unsubstantiated with Concern | Delaware gives no summary. |
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?
- 2026: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 2021: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
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.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Bayhealth Child Care and Early Learning Center This child care provider | Not given |
| Favored Children Academy | Not given |
| Pediatric Health Choice at the Children’s Secret Garden | Not given |
| Shell’s Early Learning Center - Dover | Not given |
| Beginnings and Beyond II | Not given |
| Destined for Greatness Learning Center II | Not given |
| The Little Peoples Lfcc 2 | Not given |
| Gathering Lambs | Not given |
| All Beautiful Children Learning Academy | Not given |
| Angels of Mine Daycare | Not given |
| Cherise Vogel | Not given |
| Mercedes Shorts DBA All Shorts of Love LLC | Not given |
| Loren Fuller | Not 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
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities (iuzd-3dbt).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information (wb83-pkcv).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews (pnbd-85r6).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
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