Lighthouse Center, Inc
A day care center in Buffalo, New York 14208
1166 Jefferson Ave, Buffalo, New York 14208. (716) 436-2004.
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.
- 4 violations in the last three years
- Oct 52026 the latest visit on record
- 85 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?
20 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 5, 2026.
4 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
4 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. 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.
Apr 6, 2026: other1 violation
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The program must provide copies of the behavior management plan to all staff and parents of children in care at the program.
Apr 2, 2026: complaint investigation1 violation
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Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
Mar 4, 2026: self-Report1 violation
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The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.
Nov 4, 2024: fire Safety - Alternate Year1 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: documentation from the local government authority having jurisdiction for determining compliance with the Fire and Building Code of New York State showing that the facility has been inspected and approved once every 12 months during the current license period for compliance with the applicable fire safety provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
All 21 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Other | 1 violation cited |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Self-Report | 1 violation cited |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 1 violation cited |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Dec 24, 2021.
- School district: Buffalo.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 10 Toddlers, 45 Preschoolers and 14 School-Aged Children.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 877892, issued Dec 24, 2025, expires Dec 23, 2029.
- Capacity: 85 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2026 | 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?
- Takes 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 4.
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 |
|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Buffalo, Inc. | 11 |
| Raggedy Ann and Andy Family Day Care | 0 |
| Turner, Althea | 1 |
| Johnson’s Daycare, Inc. | 11 |
| Nanny’s Nook Quality Home Daycare, Inc. | 0 |
| Sweet Pea Family Daycare inc. | 0 |
| Imagination Station | 5 |
| THE HOUSE OF LEARNING, INC. | 0 |
| Lighthouse Center, Inc This child care provider | 4 |
| Appleseeds 123 Inc. | 9 |
| Edmond, Michele | 4 |
| Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship, Inc (TBD A) | 6 |
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.
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Replies
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