Mrs. Puddle Duck’s
A day care center in Tannersville, New York 12485
6049 Main Street, Tannersville, New York 12485. (518) 589-4080.
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.
- 1 violation in the last three years
- Sep 182026 the latest visit on record
- 30 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 18, 2026.
1 violation 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
1 violation in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 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 |
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.
May 27, 2026: monitoring1 violation
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The following criminal history review and background clearances shall be conducted pursuant to and consistent with the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act for any prospective operator, director, employee or volunteer at a child day care center, small day care center, school-age child care program, group family day care home or family day care home, as defined in section (2) of this part, and any person age eighteen (18) or older living in a prospective, or who begins to live, in a group family day care home or family day care home:
All 12 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 27, 2026 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Dec 21, 2012.
- School district: Hunter-Tannersville.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 7 Infants, 12 Toddlers, 11 Preschoolers.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 579947, issued Dec 21, 2022, expires Dec 20, 2026.
- Capacity: 30 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?
- No complaints 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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 21 child care providers in Greene County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 0; this one had 1.
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 |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Puddle Duck’s This child care provider | 1 |
| Halloran, Kelly | 0 |
| The Young Men’s Christian Association of the Capital District | 9 |
| Patterson, Beth | 0 |
| Mental Health Association of Columbia and Greene Counties, Inc. | 0 |
| United Methodist Church of Greenville/Norton Hill | 2 |
| Circle of Friends | 6 |
| Houghtaling, Christina | 0 |
| Little Bear’s Daycare and Learning Den | 0 |
| Mama Bear daycare | 0 |
| Healthy Kids Extended Day Program | 2 |
| Davies I, Cheryl | 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
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
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