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YMCA School Age Care at Aldrich Elementary

A licensed child care center in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Iowa’s own record, on secureapp.dhs.state.ia.us

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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 26, 2026.

On its 3 regulation checklists from the last three years, Iowa marked 16 rules not met, 8 of them on the latest, on Oct 26, 2026.

What its other reports found is in each one, linked with it; this page doesn’t count it.

Source:

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.

Source:

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Regulation checklists (PDF), Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 26, 2026: regulation checklist8 deficiencies
  • Emergency instructions, phone numbers, and diagrams for fire, tornado, and flood shall be visibly posted and documented at least once a month for fire and tornado. Records shall be maintained for current and previous year.

    Rule 109.10(13)b.

  • •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.

    Rule 109.13(1 and 2).

  • Centers shall ensure that food preparation and storage procedures are consistent with the recommendations of the CACFPs.

    Rule 109.13(5).

  • 109.4(2)

    Rule 109.4(2).

  • 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.

    Rule 109.9(1)a.

  • 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.

    Rule 109.9(1)b.

  • Signed and dated valid Certificate of Immunization, Certificate of Immunization Exemption, or Provisional Certificate of Immunization, provided by the department must be on file for each child enrolled as required by Iowa Administrative Code 641—7.

    Rule 109.9(2)h.

  • 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.

    Rule 109.9(2)j.

Oct 21, 2025: regulation checklist5 deficiencies
  • Emergency instructions, phone numbers, and diagrams for fire, tornado, and flood shall be visibly posted and documented at least once a month for fire and tornado. Records shall be maintained for current and previous year.

    Rule 109.10(13)b.

  • •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.

    Rule 109.13(1 and 2).

  • Centers shall ensure that food preparation and storage procedures are consistent with the recommendations of the CACFPs.

    Rule 109.13(5).

  • All staff (within first three months of employment): •Iowa’s training for the mandatory reporting of child abuse. •At least one hour of training regarding universal precautions. •Certification in First Aid infant, child, and adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or equivalent certification approved by the Department. A valid certificate indicating the date of training and expiration date shall be maintained. •Certification in infant, child, and adult first aid that uses a nationally recognized curriculum or is received from a nationally recognized training organization including the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, American Safety and Health Institute, or MEDIC First Aid or an equivalent certification approved by the Department. A valid certificate indicating the date of training and expiration date shall be maintained. •Minimum health and safety trainings, (Essentials) approved by the Department. If significant changes occur to content, the Department may require the training be renewed.

    Rule 109.7(1).

  • 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.

    Rule 109.9(1)a.

Oct 28, 2024: regulation checklist3 deficiencies
  • Emergency instructions, phone numbers, and diagrams for fire, tornado, and flood shall be visibly posted and documented at least once a month for fire and tornado. Records shall be maintained for current and previous year.

    Rule 109.10(15)b.

  • Food preparation and storage procedures are consistent with NHSPS.

    Rule 109.15(5).

  • 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.

    Rule 109.9(1)d.

All 8 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 26, 2026Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for LicenseFindings are in Iowa’s report
Oct 26, 2026Regulation checklist8 rules marked not met
Oct 21, 2025Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for LicenseFindings are in Iowa’s report
Oct 21, 2025Regulation checklist5 rules marked not met
Oct 28, 2024Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for LicenseFindings are in Iowa’s report
Oct 28, 2024Regulation checklist3 rules marked not met
Oct 30, 2023Child Care Center Evaluation and Recommendation for LicenseFindings are in Iowa’s report
Oct 30, 2023Regulation checklistFindings are in Iowa’s report

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, Iowa provider number 50251.
Source:

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.
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YMCA School Age Care at Aldrich Elementary This child care providerNot 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

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.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.

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Replies

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How to read a record

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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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