Seton Catholic Preschool and After Care
A licensed child care center in Ottumwa, Iowa
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The short answer
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean3
- 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.
What did inspectors find?
Iowa lists 8 reports: 4 compliance reports and 4 regulation checklists, the latest dated Oct 29, 2026.
On its 3 regulation checklists from the last three years, Iowa marked 15 rules not met, 5 of them on the latest, on Oct 29, 2026.
What its other reports found is in each one, linked with it; this page doesn’t count it.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports and Regulation checklists (PDF), Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
Each deficiency, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Regulation checklists (PDF), Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
Oct 29, 2026: regulation checklist5 deficiencies
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Center shall develop procedures for annual staff and volunteer training on emergency plans.
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Bathroom facilities: •One toilet and sink for each 15 children over two years of age in room with ventilation. •Built after 11/1/95 – at least one sink in same area as toilet. •Adequate training seats or chairs for children under two years if used in lieu of plumbed toilet. •New construction after April 1, 1998, shall have at least one sink provided in the program rooms for infants and toddlers.
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Centers at ground level that use basement area as program space, or have a basement beneath program space: Testing and plan for remedy of radon is conducted.
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•Center shall serve each child a full, nutritionally balanced meal as defined by CACFP guidelines. •Staff shall provide supervision at table during snacks and meals. •Children at center two hours or longer shall be offered food of not less than two hours and no more than three hours apart unless child is asleep. •Menus shall be made available to parents and kept on file with substitutions noted. •Avoid foods with high incident rate of causing choking.
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Center repeats Iowa record checks at a minimum of every two years or when aware of additional child abuse or criminal history that occurs.
Dec 16, 2025: regulation checklist7 deficiencies
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Record of monthly inspections of outdoor recreation area and equipment shall be kept.
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•Center shall serve each child a full, nutritionally balanced meal as defined by CACFP guidelines. •Staff shall provide supervision at table during snacks and meals. •Children at center two hours or longer shall be offered food of not less than two hours and no more than three hours apart unless child is asleep. •Menus shall be made available to parents and kept on file with substitutions noted. •Avoid foods with high incident rate of causing choking.
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Center directors and all staff have the required contact hours of training.
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All files contain: 1.Copy of a department criminal history record check form or any other permission form approved by Department of Public Safety for conducting an Iowa or national criminal history record check 2.Copy of a request for child abuse information form, when applicable. 3.Copies of results of Iowa record checks conducted through the SING for review by the department upon request. 4.Copies of national criminal history check results. 5.Any department issued documents sent to the center related to a record check, regardless of findings.
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All files contain a pre-employment physical exam report completed within six months prior to hire and at least every three years. Physical exams shall be documented on form 470- 5152, Child Care Provider Physical Examination Report.
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School-age (for children five years and older and enrolled in school): Annual statement of health status signed by parent is submitted prior to admission, certifies that the child is free of communicable disease, and lists allergies, medications and acute/chronic conditions.
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Any child with special health needs, a written emergency plan. Copy shall accompany child if they leave the premises.
Feb 14, 2024: regulation checklist3 deficiencies
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Center shall develop procedures for annual staff and volunteer training on emergency plans.
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Record of monthly inspections of outdoor recreation area and equipment shall be kept.
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•Center shall follow minimum CACFP menu patterns for meals and snacks. •Menus planned one week in advance, made available to parents, and kept on file with substitutions noted. •Avoid foods with high incident rate of causing choking.
All 8 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Oct 29, 2026 | Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for License | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Regulation checklist | 5 rules marked not met |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for License | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Regulation checklist | 7 rules marked not met |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for License | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Regulation checklist | 3 rules marked not met |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for License | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Regulation checklist | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, Iowa provider number 25007.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Iowa acted against it?
- Iowa’s report list doesn’t show enforcement actions; any are written in the reports themselves.
Who does the caring?
- Iowa’s report list doesn’t show staffing. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Iowa’s report list doesn’t name owners.
How is it rated?
- Iowa’s quality rating (IQ4K) isn’t in its report list, so it isn’t shown here.
How does it compare nearby?
- Providers aren’t compared: Iowa’s checklists don’t cover every visit, and complaint findings aren’t on them.
| Place | |
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| Seton Catholic Preschool and After Care This child care provider | Not given |
What the record doesn’t say
- Findings here are the rules Iowa’s regulation checklists from the last three years mark as not met, in the checklists’ own words. What evaluations, letters and complaint investigations found is in those reports, linked with each one, and isn’t counted here.
- Iowa lists a report once it is written up: most within two weeks of the visit, some six weeks or more after it, so a recent visit may not be listed yet.
- Each report is dated the day Iowa created it, which can be weeks after the visit; a checklist is dated the day of the inspection it records.
- Iowa’s report list gives only a provider’s city and county, not its street address, ZIP code or phone number.
- Iowa’s report list doesn’t show quality ratings (IQ4K), capacity, ages served, hours, owners or enforcement actions.
Sources
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Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Regulation checklists (PDF), Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. Iowa’s own record is on secureapp.dhs.state.ia.us. 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.
From the provider
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Replies
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Paid listing
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