Lotus Blossom Learning Center I
A licensed child care center in Lewes, Delaware 19958
19305 Beaver Dam Road, Lewes, Delaware 19958. (302) 947-9341.
- Intent to Place on Warning of Probation (Delaware)
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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?
6 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Aug 18, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
31 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
31 violations in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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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.
Aug 18, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review8 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs a signed employee declaration. One staff needs two references. One staff needs a health appraisal with TB screening. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, four references, adult abuse registry check, health appraisal with TB screening, and Release of Employment history.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs a child information card with emergency information and transportation permission, a blood lead level test result and health appraisal. Two children need a blood lead level test result. Four children need development plans.”
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Heating and Cooling
“Ensure heating equipment is properly shielded. Repair baseboard heater in the two-year-old classroom.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure refrigerators maintain a temperature of 41 degrees F or below. Adjust temperature in the mini refrigerator in the Lemon classroom.”
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Toilet Facilities
“Ensure children’s toilet rooms have working ventilation. Repair ventilation fan in the pink bathroom in the pre-k classroom.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure diaper pails have a liner. Add liner to the diaper pail in the two-year-old classroom.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure medications, including sunscreen, are properly labeled with the child’s name. Review sunscreens in the two-year-old classroom and re-label as needed.”
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Infant and Toddler Care
“Ensure balloons are not used with infants and toddlers. Children in the one-year-old classroom were observed playing with balloons. This was corrected at the visit when it was immediately addressed with the staff and the balloons were removed.”
Jul 21, 2026: enforcement Visit1 violation
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs orientation, references, adult abuse registry check, and one more attempt to obtain service letters. One staff needs safe sleep review and one more attempt to obtain service letters.”
May 14, 2026: enforcement Visit1 violation
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, four references, employee declaration & drug/alcohol statement, and adult abuse registry check. One staff needs orientation and two additional references. One staff needs a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs a review of safe sleep and a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, adult health appraisal with TB, and one more attempt to obtain service letters.”
Mar 17, 2026: unannounced2 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure staff are fingerprinted for a comprehensive background check and receive an eligibility determination prior to being present at the center. Upon arrival to the center, a staff person, who has not been fingerprinted, was observed alone with children. Send staff person to be fingerprinted and prohibit them from center until comprehensive background check is complete and eligibility determination is made.”
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Heating and Cooling
“Ensure space heaters are not used. This was corrected at the visit when it was addressed with the Owner and the heater was removed from the two-year-old classroom immediately.”
Aug 12, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review10 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure individuals who may come into contact with children are fingerprinted and determined eligible. Two adults reside in the apartment above the center and have not been fingerprinted.”
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 142 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs four references. One staff needs an accurate job description, three more references, eligibility letter, adult abuse check, and an adult health appraisal with TB screening. One staff needs two more references. One staff needs a PD plan. One staff needs to submit an application to DEEDS Early Learning, needs an adult health appraisal with TB screening, two documented attempts to obtain service letters and two more references if service letter is not returned. One staff needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, needs one more attempts to obtain service letters, two more references if the service letter is not returned, and an adult health appraisal with TB screening. One staff needs Orientation, OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, and two documented attempts to obtain service letters.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs a blood lead level test result. Three children need a blood lead level test result and completed MAR for sunscreen. Two children need a completed MAR for sunscreen. One child needs a blood lead level test result and emergency transportation permission. All younger one-year-old’s need e developmental plan.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure each child’s exact arrival and departure is documented. One child was not signed into the pre-k classroom. This was corrected at the visit when the child was signed in.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure children’s belongings are stored separately and not touching. Re-organize children’s belongings in the two-year-old classroom. Ensure air fresheners are not used. An air freshener was observed in the ventilation fan in the pre-k girl’s bathroom. Remove air freshener.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure thermometers are in each refrigerator and freezer and the freezer temperature does not exceed zero degrees. Add a thermometer to the two-year-old classroom’s refrigerator and freezer. Adjust temperature in the large freezer in the kitchen so it is 0 degrees or below.”
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Toilet Facilities
“Ensure ventilation fan is working properly. Repair fan in the pre-k boy’s bathroom.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure fall zone requirements are met. Replenish mulch in the one and two-year-old play area. Ensure newly installed gate self-closes and self-latches. Repair gate.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure the mat used for pull-up changes in the three-year-old classroom is non-absorbent, free from rips or tears. Replace mat.”
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Activity Schedule
“Ensure activity schedules list the times of each activity. Add times to the two-year-old schedule.”
Aug 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff person needs CPR/first aid training, orientation, adult health appraisal with TB screening/results, and letter of eligibility. One staff person needs a Professional Development Plan and adult health appraisal with TB screening/results. One staff person needs an annual review of safe sleep and child abuse and neglect.”
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Parents Right to Know
“Ensure Parent’s Right to Know log is completed for enrolled families and anyone touring the center.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs days of enrollment, days of attending, and blood lead level test result. One child needs a blood lead level test result. One child needs date of enrollment, updated health appraisal, and blood lead level test result. One child needs hours and days of attending. One child needs date of enrollment and days of attending. One child needs date of enrollment. Ensure children have correct Medication Administration Record (MAR) completed for sunscreen. Two children need a corrected MAR.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure attendance includes the exact arrival and departure of each child daily. One child was not signed into the three-year-old classroom. This was corrected at the visit when the child was signed in.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure indoor space is in good repair. An exit sign in the four-year-old classroom was dangling from the wall, unsecured. Repair exit sign and secure above door. Ensure exposed outlets are covered. Add outlet covers to the one and two-year-old classrooms.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Maintain accurate temperatures in the refrigerators and freezers. LS Brey observed the large freezer in the kitchen to be at 20 degrees and the refrigerator in the infant room to be at 45 degrees.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure fall zone requirements in the outdoor play area are met. Replenish mulch to nine inches.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans contain weekly opportunities for a food/healthy habit, music, sensory, and science and daily activities in physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language/literacy. The four and five-year-old lesson plan did not include a weekly opportunity for a food/healthy habit or music. The two-year-old classroom had the same activities for cognitive and social-emotional for several weeks. The three-year-old classroom did not have a weekly opportunity for a food/healthy habit.”
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Activity Areas
“Ensure art supplies are accessible in the two-year-old classroom.”
All 6 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Aug 18, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 8 violations cited |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Enforcement Visit | 1 violation cited |
| May 14, 2026 | Enforcement Visit | 1 violation cited |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Unannounced | 2 violations cited |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 10 violations cited |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 9 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 5 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 982376.
- Capacity: 54 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 6 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (3), Substantiated (3).
- Delaware has given notice: Intent to Place on Warning of Probation.
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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| Intent to Place on Warning of Probation | Delaware has given notice: Intent to Place on Warning of Probation. | |
| Apr 1, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On March 17, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding release of children and unqualified staff being alone with children. An investigation was conducted on March 19, 2026. This complaint is substantiated for unqualified staff being alone with children because according to attendance records recently obtained for March 2, 2026 March 11, 2026, an unqualified staff person was alone with the infants on four of the six days reviewed. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of improper release of children because staff interviewed stated guardian permission was obtained prior to the children leaving the center. Calls logs and text messages reviewed support this. However, removing children from the center s care, even with parent/guardian permission, should not be a way the center maintains compliance with required ratios. Other concerns noted were safe sleep violations and restricted space for free movement in the one-year-old classroom. |
| Apr 1, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On March 3, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding improper staff-to-child ratio, unqualified staff alone with children, staff files, not following the policy in the parent handbook on dietary restrictions, not providing truthful information, lack of supervision, safe sleep practices, infant feeding, not cleaning bottles in the approved food preparation space, not meeting the needs of the children, accident/injury procedures, confidentiality, pets, not labeling children s bottles, cots, or cubbies, Administration of Medication, sanitation, and health exclusions. An investigation began on March 11, 2026, and concluded on March 24, 2026. This complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratio because according to attendance records reviewed, classrooms were over ratio on multiple days. One day, the Lotus Blossom classroom was over ratio with as many as 19 children present, ages ranging from infant to five-years-old, with two staff. This complaint is substantiated for unqualified staff being alone with children because according to attendance reviewed, an unqualified staff person was alone with the infants on four of the six days reviewed. This complaint is substantiated for staff files, because one staff file was reviewed and found to be missing multiple documents. This complaint is substantiated for lack of safe sleep practices because an infant was observed asleep in a crib with a binky strap still attached to the binky and a blanket hanging over the side rail of the crib. This complaint is substantiated for infant feeding because bottles were observed not labeled with the child s name. Staff interviewed stated infants will be placed in boppy pillows or swings with their bottle propped for feeding. Staff also stated an infant who holds their own bottle will be placed in a boppy or swing, not a required highchair with T-strap. This complaint is substantiated for not cleaning bottles in an approved space because staff interviewed stated they wash all dishes and bottles in handwashing sinks. This complaint is substantiated for pets, because staff interviewed stated a dog was brought into the center, but families were not notified in advance, and the dog s vaccinations were not on site. This complaint is substantiated for not labeling required items, because during the walk-through, it was noted bottles were not labeled with the child s name and food containers were observed not being labeled with the child s name, contents, or expiration date. This complaint is substantiated for improper administration of medication because of the 11 medications reviewed, six did not have a corresponding Medication Administration Record (MAR). There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation the center did not follow their handbook s policy on dietary restrictions, because staff interviewed stated they documented it in the child file and did not serve the child the food, which coincides with their own policy. LS #1 verified this documentation. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation the center does not provide truthful information because staff interviewed denied this. Meal count forms were also reviewed and absences were documented. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation children are allowed to walk around the center and enter different classrooms, because staff interviewed denied this. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of children s needs are not being met in the infant classroom because staff interviewed denied this. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of accident/injury procedures not being followed because staff interviewed stated an infant did not fall onto the floor, and therefore, no injury occurred. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation confidentiality was breached because staff interviewed stated the child who was injured told their parent/guardian the name of the child who hurt him/her. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of not following sanitation requirements because cleaning procedures are posted in each classroom and staff interviewed stated cleaning is being done appropriately. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation health exclusions are not being followed because staff interviewed stated they send children home, as needed, and while they wait on pick-up, they are kept in the office away from other children. Other concerns noted were cords, outlets, and fans being accessible to children, a wall in need of repair, cleaners being stored with food in the kitchen, diapering procedures not being properly followed, staff being on site without a comprehensive background check and eligibility determination, a child not being signed out, children eating from food containers they had previously eaten from, cleaners and disposable gloves being accessible, infants being left in confining equipment for longer than 30 minutes, a thermometer not being available in a classroom s refrigerator, infants and toddlers being cared for with older children after the first 90 minutes of the center opening, and room capacities not being followed. |
| Jul 9, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On June 24, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding using alcohol while caring for children, staff not having a health appraisal indicating they are able to care for children, and staff not being respectful by not using non-threatening tones. An investigation was conducted on July 1, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because all staff interviewed stated they have never suspected a staff person in the center of consuming or being under the influence of alcohol while working. Staff #1 denied all allegations of drinking while working, further stating the doctor completing the health appraisal misrepresented the information he/she shared with them. While speaking with Staff #1, there was no physical evidence to prove he/she was consuming alcohol. Staff #1 spoke articulately, his/her eyes were clear, and there was no detectable odor of alcohol. Lastly, all staff interviewed stated they have never heard Administrator #1 use threatening language or tones while speaking on the phone or in person to others. |
| Aug 29, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On July 15, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding unsafe indoor space. An investigation was conducted on August 1, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because during a thorough walk-through of the center for a full compliance visit, Licensing Specialist #1 did not observe any furniture made of plywood and crates. Additionally, Owner #1 denied the allegation of using plywood and crates as a table for children. |
| Jun 20, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On June 3, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding fencing requirements. An investigation was conducted on June 3, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because although the large, rear gate in the fence was broken, there is a plan to have it repaired, and it was securely closed with cords rendering it inaccessible to children. Additionally, there is another gate and an exit into the center which can be accessed by the children. The fence height was previously approved by OCCL and has not changed. |
| Feb 23, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on February 5, 2024, regarding improper staff-to-child ratio. An investigation was conducted on February 6, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratio because during the visit a staff without eligibility was alone with children, and according to attendance records, there were several days when staff were not signed into classrooms, but children were present. |
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?
- 2023: 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 |
|---|---|
| Lotus Blossom Learning Center I This child care provider | Not given |
| Beach Buddies School Age Program | Not given |
| Beach Babies Child Care | Not given |
| Lighthouse on the Shore Learning Center Inc. | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ Love Creek | Not given |
| YMCA of De/Sussex Consortium | Not given |
| Little Vikings @ Sussex Consortium | Not given |
| Anna Campbell | Not given |
| Bethel Christian School | Not given |
| YMCA of Delaware/Lewes Elementary | Not given |
| Kelly Frech | Not given |
| Margaret H. Rollins Cdc @ Children’s Beach House | Not given |
| Child’s Play By the Bay | 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.
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.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
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