BRIGHTPATH
A day care center in Hamburg, New York 14075
4885 Lakeshore Road, Hamburg, New York 14075. (716) 627-3074.
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.
- 5 violations in the last three years
- Aug 72026 the latest visit on record
- 108 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?
14 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Aug 7, 2026.
5 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
5 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2024. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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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.
Jul 16, 2024: complaint investigation4 violations
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Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law.
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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.
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Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child’s mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like.
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Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.
Apr 19, 2024: self Reported Serious Incident1 violation
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Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard.
All 15 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 18, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| May 14, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 4 violations cited |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | 1 violation cited |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Nov 23, 2011.
- School district: Frontier.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 24 Toddlers, 52 Preschoolers and 16 School-Aged Children.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Licence 537007, issued Nov 23, 2025, expires Nov 22, 2029.
- Capacity: 108 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 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?
- 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 5.
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 |
|---|---|
| Gonsiorek, Michelle | 0 |
| Sutter, Michele | 0 |
| A LEAP IN LEARNING EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, INC. | 0 |
| Miss Dar’s Luv-A-Lot’s In Home Daycare | 0 |
| Storybook | 33 |
| YMCA Buffalo Niagara | 1 |
| P.R.E.P. Day Care, Inc. | 2 |
| Woodbridge Learning and Childcare Center LLC | 3 |
| BRIGHTPATH This child care provider | 5 |
| Precious Ones Day Care | 0 |
| Smarty Pants LLC | 0 |
| Houghton, Dawn | 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 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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Paid listing
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