Mary’s Home Day Care
A family child care home in Durham, North Carolina 27703
5407 Hadrian Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27703. (919) 697-3507.
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The short answer
- 11 violations in the last three years
- Oct 72026 the latest visit on record
- 8 children, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean5
- 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.
- Quality rating
- Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
- 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?
9 DCDEE visits in the last three years, the latest on Oct 7, 2026.
11 violations cited in the last three years, 11 of them marked corrected.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
11 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 3, 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 | Nov |
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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.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
Oct 21, 2025: unannounced2 violations
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Home was not equipped with either an electrically operated smoke detector with a battery back-up; or both an electrically operated detector and a battery operated detector located next to each other.
“A smoke detector in the children’s play area had an inaudible alert sound.”
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Written feeding schedule was not on file for each child under 15 months of age and/or was not updated regularly to reflect changes in the child’s needs.
“An enrolled infant, eight months of age, did not have a feeding plan on file.”
Oct 30, 2024: unannounced4 violations
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A First Aid Information sheet, complete with required information, was not posted for quick referral by staff.
“There was no First Aid reference poster displayed in the caregiving space.”
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Copy of each child’s health assessment, including the operator’s own preschool child(ren), was not on file within 30 days of enrollment.
“Two children did not have health assessments on file.”
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Operator has not completed ITS-SIDS training every three years from the completion date of the previous ITS-SIDS training.
“The provider’s ITS-SIDS training expired 9/8/24.”
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The EPR Plan did not include the date of the last revision of the plan.
“The EPR plan was not available for review today.”
Jun 4, 2024: unannounced2 violations
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Operator did not successfully complete a CPR course as referenced in Rule.1702(b)(2) CPR training was not renewed on or before the expiration of the certification.
“CPR was observed to be expired on 2/2024.”
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Operator did not successfully complete a first aid course as referenced in Rule.1702(b)(2) First aid training was not renewed on or before the expiration of the certification.
“First Aid was observed expired on 2/2024.”
Dec 6, 2023: unannounced3 violations
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Application did not include health care needs or concerns, symptoms of and the type of response required for the health care needs or concerns.
“A child enrolled on 1/9/2023 did not have health care needs or concerns completed on the application.”
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Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of 30 days.
“The provider was not documenting visually checking the infant enrolled.”
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The operator did not conduct a monthly fire drill.
“The last documented fire drill was completed on 10/11/23.”
All 9 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Unannounced visit | No violations cited |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Unannounced visit | No violations cited |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Unannounced visit | No violations cited |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Unannounced visit | 2 violations cited |
| May 13, 2025 | Unannounced visit | No violations cited |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Announced visit | No violations cited |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Unannounced visit | 4 violations cited |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Unannounced visit | 2 violations cited |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Unannounced visit | 3 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Family Child Care Home, holding a Four Star Family CC Home License since Apr 3, 2019.
- Licensed for 8 children, ages 0 through 12.
- Enrolled in North Carolina’s subsidized child care program.
- North Carolina’s licence number: 32001386.
- Restriction: Other - Serves NMT infants under age one.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
Has North Carolina acted against it?
- DCDEE says it has taken no action against this facility, for its current licence and location, in the last three years.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- North Carolina’s page gives a staff-to-child ratio policy as the provider reports it, unverified by DCDEE, so it isn’t shown.
Who owns it?
- Owner, as North Carolina lists it: Mary B, Smith.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
How is it rated?
- Star Rated License: 4 stars of five.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 225 child care providers in Durham County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 9; this one had 11.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Bright Horizons at Rtp | 8 |
| Florence’s Daycare Home | 12 |
| Mcqueen’s Amazing Changes Childcare | 4 |
| Little Angels Daycare | 18 |
| Nana’s Babies | 0 |
| Bright & Beautiful Beginnings | 1 |
| Children Our Heritage Daycare Inc. | 7 |
| Victorious Day Care & Preschool Academy | 33 |
| Angie’s Angels Daycare Center | 1 |
| Mary’s Home Day Care This child care provider | 11 |
| Babs Lil’ Angels | 22 |
| Paradise Escapades | 1 |
What the record doesn’t say
- North Carolina doesn’t show a visit summary tied to an open child maltreatment investigation while the case is active, and shows an administrative action only after its 30-day appeal period, without saying what it was.
- DCDEE’s descriptions of violations are shown in its own words; a description that names or may name a person isn’t shown. Visit summaries, the consultants’ full reports, aren’t read.
- North Carolina’s page lists the provider’s own features (transport, ratios) as furnished by the provider and unverified by DCDEE, so they aren’t shown.
Sources
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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations.
Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily. nc.gov terms: copying and distribution for non-commercial use, without alteration, citing the source. Shown free and never sold; DCDEE’s own words are quoted.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE). North Carolina’s own record is on ncchildcare.ncdhhs.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 Nov 3, 2026.
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