Early Bird Childcare Centers, Inc.
A day care center in Arcade, New York 14009
216 East Main Street, Arcade, New York 14009. (585) 492-2254.
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 Oct 24, 2026.
- 6 violations in the last three years
- Oct 72026 the latest visit on record
- 42 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?
23 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 7, 2026.
6 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
6 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Nov | 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 |
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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Jul 27, 2026: monitoring1 violation
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Peeling or damaged paint or plaster must be repaired.
Sep 30, 2025: monitoring2 violations
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The provisions specified on the license are binding and the child day care center must operate in compliance with the terms of the license. The number and age range of children specified thereon are the maximum number and age range of children who may be in the care of the child day care center at any one time.
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Before any change is made, the Office must be notified and must approve the re-designation of a classroom to a different age group of children.
Apr 11, 2025: self Reported Serious Incident2 violations
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Staff and volunteers must thoroughly wash their hands with soap and running water at the beginning of each day, before and after the administration of medications, when they are dirty, after toileting or assisting children with toileting, after changing a diaper, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors.
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The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children.
Mar 3, 2025: complaint investigation1 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 24 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| May 20, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Monitoring | 2 violations cited |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| May 12, 2025 | Documentation Review | No violations found |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Self Reported Serious Incident | 2 violations cited |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Unsubstantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| May 14, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Jun 1, 1991.
- School district: Yorkshire-Pioneer.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 8 Infants, 10 Toddlers, 24 Preschoolers.
- Licence 40608, issued Jun 1, 2023, expires May 31, 2027.
- Capacity: 42 children.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- 1 complaint in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Unsubstantiated) (1).
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2025 | Complaint (Unsubstantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated). |
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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 24 child care providers in Wyoming County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 6.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Early Bird Childcare Centers, Inc. This child care provider | 6 |
| Rainbow’s End Early Childhood Learning Center | 1 |
| Hope Lutheran Church | 2 |
| Early Bird ChildCare Centers, Inc. | 1 |
| GLOW YMCA | 0 |
| Geercken, Sandra | 2 |
| Sadowski, Candace | 1 |
| Country Kids Learning and Child Care | 0 |
| Deiter, Diane | 5 |
| Hyman, Lindsay | 2 |
| Welker, Rita | 1 |
| Darlene’s Little Darlings | 0 |
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 Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 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 19, 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 Oct 24, 2026.
From the provider
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Replies
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Paid listing
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