BUFFALO HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER, INC.
A day care center in Buffalo, New York 14203
50 East North Street, Buffalo, New York 14203. (716) 885-8318.
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.
- 3 violations in the last three years
- Oct 22026 the latest visit on record
- 140 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?
22 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 2, 2026.
3 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
3 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 |
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.
Feb 5, 2026: self-Report1 violation
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Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the child day care center.
Jan 27, 2026: mid-Point1 violation
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Mid-point requirements for four-year license holders. At the two-year calendar date in a four year licensing cycle, a program must be in compliance with the following mid-point requirements and be able to show proof of compliance to the Office when requested, as follows: proof of compliance with the training requirements of section 418-1.14;
Oct 8, 2025: self-Report1 violation
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The written medical statement from the health care provider must also state whether the child is a child with special health care needs and, if so, what special provisions, if any, will be necessary in order for the child to participate in child day care. When the written statement from the health care provider advises the day care program that the child being enrolled is a child with special health care needs, the day care program must work together with the parent and the child’s health care provider to develop a reasonable health care plan for the child while the child is in the child day care program. The health care plan for the child must also address how the day care program will obtain or develop any additional competencies that the staff will need to have in order to carry out the health care plan for the child.
All 22 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| May 20, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Self-Report | 1 violation cited |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Mid-Point | 1 violation cited |
| Oct 8, 2025 | Self-Report | 1 violation cited |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 17, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| May 5, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| May 31, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Nov 21, 2005.
- School district: Buffalo.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 9 Toddlers, 131 Preschoolers.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 246812, issued Nov 21, 2023, expires Nov 20, 2027.
- Capacity: 140 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?
- No complaints 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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
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?
- Doesn’t take 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 3.
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 |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER, INC. This child care provider | 3 |
| Auxiliary Services Corporation of Erie Community College | 6 |
| Lighthouse Center Medical Park, Inc. | 3 |
| 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 |
| Doodle Bugs! Children’s Centers | 8 |
| BRIGHTPATH | 4 |
| Warm Wishes Day Care | 6 |
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
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Replies
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