LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER, INC.
A day care center in Cortland, New York 13045
3277 Gracie Road, Cortland, New York 13045. (607) 662-4632.
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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.
- 5 violations in the last three years
- Oct 82026 the latest visit on record
- 27 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 Oct 8, 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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
5 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2024. 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.
Sep 20, 2024: monitoring1 violation
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Whenever change(s), addition(s) or expansion(s) are proposed which will affect, or reasonably may be expected to affect, those portions of the building designated for the care of children or for their egress in case of an emergency, the licensee must receive written approval from the Office prior to initiating such change(s), addition(s), or expansion(s).
May 21, 2024: serious Injury1 violation
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The program must take suitable precautions to prevent the following: serious injury of a child while in care at the program or being transported by the program; and
Mar 13, 2024: serious Injury2 violations
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The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious injury,
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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.
Feb 26, 2024: annual Unannounced1 violation
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The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times;
All 14 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Change(s) to Site | No violations found |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| May 21, 2024 | Serious Injury | 1 violation cited |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Serious Injury | 2 violations cited |
| Feb 26, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Aug 28, 2017.
- School district: Dryden.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 27 Preschoolers.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 791639, issued Aug 28, 2023, expires Aug 27, 2027.
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 32 child care providers in Cortland County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 5.
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 |
|---|---|
| LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER, INC. This child care provider | 5 |
| Watkins, Tina | 3 |
| Racker | 20 |
| McDonald Sports Camp | 11 |
| Young Women’s Christian Association of Cortland County, Inc. | 7 |
| Here We Grow Child Care Center | 9 |
| Cortland County Child Development Day Care Program, Inc. | 20 |
| Young Women’s Christian Association of Cortland County, Inc. | 4 |
| Young Women’s Christian Association Of Cortland County,Inc. | 1 |
| Cortland County Community Action Program, Inc. | 4 |
| Cortland County Community Actions Program, Inc | 2 |
| West, Nancy | 1 |
| Gibbs, Midge | 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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