BRIGHTPATH
A day care center in Buffalo, New York 14216
1350 Hertel Ave., Buffalo, New York 14216. (716) 332-9500.
What New York’s list coversOutside New York City
Programs New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services licenses or registers outside New York City, each county added once it is read in full. Programs in the city’s five boroughs, including the day care centers its Health Department regulates, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.
- 4 violations in the last three years
- Oct 82026 the latest visit on record
- 86 children, its licensed capacity
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?
20 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 8, 2026.
4 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
4 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Dec | |||||||||||
| 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 |
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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Mar 13, 2026: self-Report2 violations
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and has completed the Medication Administration Training (MAT) pursuant to subdivision (e) of this section or, in the case of administering patient-specific epinephrine devices, antihistamine in combination with the epinephrine device, asthma inhalers and nebulizers, has received training on its use from the parent, health care provider or a health care consultant;
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At the time of administration, the staff must document the dosages and time that the medications are given to the child.
Mar 6, 2026: self-Report1 violation
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The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious injury,
Aug 29, 2024: complaint investigation1 violation
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Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
All 21 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Fire Safety - Other | No violations found |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Self-Report | 2 violations cited |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Self-Report | 1 violation cited |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Sep 1, 2003.
- School district: Buffalo.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 36 Toddlers, 34 Preschoolers.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Licence 131026, issued Sep 1, 2023, expires Aug 31, 2027.
- Capacity: 86 children.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- 1 complaint in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (1).
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2024 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
Who does the caring?
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs.
Who owns it?
- New York’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Takes part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 467 child care providers in Erie County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 4.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTPATH This child care provider | 4 |
| Holy Cross Head Start Inc. | 3 |
| Puddle Jumpers LLC | 6 |
| YMCA Buffalo Niagara | 12 |
| Jumped Up Jellybeans, INC | 23 |
| Nature’s Nest Childcare | 0 |
| Brierwood Child Care of Lancaster, Inc. | 5 |
| Little O’s Cuddley Family Day Care | 0 |
| Bluff, Lori | 0 |
| Stepping Stones Family Day Care | 0 |
| Harris, Tonya | 4 |
| Tracy’s Tots, Inc. | 11 |
What the record doesn’t say
- New York doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- New York’s records give the regulation behind each violation, not what the inspector saw.
- New York’s program pages cover four calendar years; this page shows the last three years.
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual programs.
Sources
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs (cb42-qumz).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: New York State Office of Children and Family Services. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.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 5, 2026.
From the provider
The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
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Paid listing
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