Tendercare Child Center
A day care center in Selkirk, New York 12158
569 Elm Avenue, Selkirk, New York 12158. (518) 478-0787.
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.
Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov.
The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.
- 10 violations in the last three years
- Sep 282026 the latest visit on record
- 50 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?
12 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 28, 2026.
10 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
10 violations in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Sep 28, 2026: monitoring2 violations
-
The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
-
Children may not be placed in the crib with a bottle, food or drink.
Apr 22, 2025: annual Unannounced2 violations
-
Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the child day care center.
-
The program must maintain on file a record of each evacuation drill conducted, using forms furnished by the Office or approved equivalents.
Jun 6, 2024: monitoring1 violation
-
The program must maintain on file a record of each evacuation drill conducted, using forms furnished by the Office or approved equivalents.
Mar 19, 2024: annual Unannounced1 violation
-
Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the child day care center.
Dec 22, 2023: application - Renewal4 violations
-
Staff and volunteers must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider: before such person has any involvement in child care work.
-
The initial medical statement for staff and volunteers must include the results of a Mantoux tuberculin test or other federally approved tuberculin test performed within the 12 months preceding the date of the application.
-
Each staff person and volunteer must complete a minimum of thirty (30) hours of training every two years. The required thirty (30) hours of training every two years is subject to the following conditions: Fifteen (15) of the required thirty (30) hours of training must be obtained during the person’s first six months at the program.
-
A group teacher, meeting the qualifications of section 418-1.13, is required for every group of children.
All 12 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | Monitoring | 2 violations cited |
| May 27, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | 2 violations cited |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | 1 violation cited |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Application - Renewal | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Oct 22, 1997.
- School district: Bethlehem.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 8 Infants, 10 Toddlers, 16 Preschoolers and 16 School-Aged Children.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 42976, issued Oct 22, 2023, expires Oct 21, 2027.
- Capacity: 50 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 227 child care providers in Albany County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 10.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| After School Activities Program, Inc. | 3 |
| Tendercare Child Center This child care provider | 10 |
| First Steps Daycare MS LLC | 7 |
| Shutter, Emily | 2 |
| Prince, Jacqueline | 8 |
| St. Anne’s Institute | 7 |
| Kidz Korner | 8 |
| Kidz Korner | 4 |
| Levine, Rosemarie | 25 |
| Watervliet Civic Chest, Inc. | 4 |
| Kidz Korner After School | 1 |
| Albany Community Action Partnership | 3 |
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
-
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.
-
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 20, 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
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.