Candace Link
A registered child development home B in Tama, 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 5 reports: 3 compliance reports and 2 regulation checklists, the latest dated Jan 28, 2026.
On its 2 regulation checklists from the last three years, Iowa marked 15 rules not met, 1 of them on the latest, on Jan 26, 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 Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
Jan 26, 2026: regulation checklist1 deficiency
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Has not less than one 2A 10BC rated fire extinguisher in a visible and readily accessible place on each child-occupied floor.
Jul 16, 2025: regulation checklist14 deficiencies
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If the second story or basement is used for child care, other than the use of a restroom, there is, in addition to one inside stairway, at least one direct exit to the outside.
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The bottom of the window opening is not more than 44 inches above the floor with permanent steps inside leading up to the window.
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Emergency numbers posted for police, fire, ambulance, and poison information center.
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Number for each child’s parent, a person who can be reached when the parent cannot and child’s physician is written on paper and readily accessible by the working telephone.
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Has not less than one 2A 10BC rated fire extinguisher in a visible and readily accessible place on each child-occupied floor.
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Each smoke detector is tested monthly, and a record is kept for inspection purposes.
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Emergency and disaster plans for fire and tornado are written and posted by primary and secondary exits.
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Fire and tornado drills are practiced monthly and documentation kept on file for the current year and previous year.
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Procedures are in place for: •Evacuation to safely leave the facility, •Relocation to a common, safe location after evacuation, •Shelter-in-place to take immediate shelter where the child is when it is unsafe to leave that location due to the emergent issue, •Lock down to protect children and providers from an external situation, •Communication and reunification with families, •Continuity of operations, and Procedures to address the needs of individual children, including those with functional or access needs.
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For school-aged children: On the first day of attendance, a statement of health status signed by the parent or legal guardian or admission physical examination that is not more than 12 months from the child’s first day.
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For infants and preschoolers: A statement of health signed by a physician submitted annually.
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For school aged children: An annual statement of health condition signed by the parent or legal guardian, annually from date of statement of health or admission physical.
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Documentation signed by the parent which names persons authorized to pick up the child, their telephone number, and relationship to the child.
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Written permission from the parent(s) for their child to attend activities away from the child development home.
All 5 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Jan 28, 2026 | Homes Evaluation and Recommendation | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Regulation checklist | 1 rule marked not met |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Homes Evaluation and Recommendation | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Regulation checklist | 14 rules marked not met |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Full Compliance Letter | Findings are in Iowa’s report |
Is it licensed?
- Registered Child Development Home B, Iowa provider number 50890.
- Category B.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports. Checked Oct 24, 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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| Candace Link 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.
- Iowa’s lists show checklists for child development homes only from July 2025; earlier visits to homes have letters, linked but not counted.
Sources
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Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Childcare Compliance and Complaint Reports.
Checked Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
From the provider
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