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Ponca Tribal Early Childhood Center

A child care center in Ponca City, Oklahoma 74601

20 White Eagle Dr., Ponca City, Oklahoma 74601. (580) 762-7927.

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The short answer

The last 24 months 24 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Every month

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What these words mean6
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.
The state’s most serious level
Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
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?

27 monitoring visits on record, the latest on Aug 21, 2026; 2 more were attempted.

24 non-compliances found in the last three years, 7 of them in complaints.

Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

24 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

24 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 23, 2025: periodic visit1 deficiency
  • “One child with medication did not have a signed parent permission form for the medication.”

Sep 10, 2025: periodic visit1 deficiency
  • “One staff member did not complete the required amount of training hours in the past 12 months.”

Aug 28, 2025: periodic visit3 deficiencies
  • “One staff member has an expired PDL and did not resubmit in time to maintain a current PDL”

  • “The minimum number of hours were not obtained to maintain the professional development ladder certificate for one staff member”

  • “Two individual’s, one teaching staff and one kitchen staff were hired and working in the program without having been fingerprinted or the criminal history process initiated. .”

Jun 27, 2025: periodic visit2 deficiencies
  • “Fire inspection has not been completed in over 2 years”

  • “One staff employed over 12 months does not have a current PDL.”

Jan 7, 2025: substantiated complaint7 deficiencies
  • individualize the care and learning opportunities meeting each child’s needs based on the child’s age and abilities, including reviewing the information provided by parents while respecting confidentiality;

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-284(c)(2)(A). From a complaint.

  • demonstrate prudent and responsible behavior reasonably ensuring children’s health and safety;

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-284(c)(2)(C). From a complaint.

  • Supervision. Supervision is the function of observing, overseeing, and guiding a child or group of children, including an awareness of, and responsibility for, the ongoing activity of each child, and being near enough to intervene when needed. The program is required to maintain supervision at all times.

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-287(a). From a complaint.

  • Non-job related. do not participate in personal activities that may interfere with supervision, such as visitors, phone calls, or electronic device use.

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-287(c). From a complaint.

  • do not remain for more than 20 minute increments in equipment restricting freedom of movement, such as rest equipment, swings, high chairs, or stationary activity centers, except while eating in high chairs or similar stationary equipment. Children only sleep in appropriate rest equipment, per OAC 340:110-3-296.

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-289(j)(3). From a complaint.

  • When an infant falls asleep in equipment other than appropriate rest equipment, the infant is immediately moved to appropriate rest equipment.

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-296(b)(2)(B)(ii). From a complaint.

  • Soft products, such as quilts, comforters, sheepskins, pillows, stuffed toys, and bumper pads are prohibited inside and on the side of infant rest equipment.

    The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

    Rule 340:110-3-296(b)(2)(B)(iii). From a complaint.

Nov 1, 2024: other visit1 deficiency
  • “Two diaper changing areas in the program had toys or teaching materials on them and were not removed”

Oct 28, 2024: periodic visit8 deficiencies
  • “Checklist has not been completed in the past 12 months”

  • “Fire drill has not been completed since August”

  • “Four year old classroom had outdated lesson plans posted.”

  • “Medication administered was not logged on permission form for one child.”

  • “One child under 1 year of age has a blanket in their crib”

  • “One infant over 3 months of age was swaddled”

  • “Tornado drill has not been completed since August”

  • The inspectors’ words aren’t shown here yet: this record is being refreshed. The official record has them.

Jun 5, 2024: periodic visit1 deficiency
  • “The program did not report a change in director to licensing by the next business day of the change”

All 29 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 21, 2026Periodic visit (Full)39 of 39 areas in compliance
Jun 26, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
May 19, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Apr 13, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Mar 30, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Feb 12, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Jan 9, 2026Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Dec 17, 2025Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Nov 20, 2025Periodic visit (Full)39 of 39 areas in compliance
Oct 23, 2025Periodic visit (Full)38 of 39 areas in compliance
Sep 10, 2025Periodic visit (Full)38 of 39 areas in compliance
Aug 28, 2025Periodic visit (Full)37 of 40 areas in compliance
Aug 21, 2025Periodic visit (Attempted)0 of 0 areas in compliance
Jul 25, 2025Periodic visit (Full)39 of 39 areas in compliance
Jun 27, 2025Periodic visit (Full)37 of 39 areas in compliance
May 9, 2025Follow Up visit (Partial)39 of 39 areas in compliance
May 6, 2025Periodic visit (Full)39 of 39 areas in compliance
Feb 27, 2025Periodic visit (Full)39 of 39 areas in compliance
Jan 31, 2025Follow Up visit (Partial)5 of 5 areas in compliance
Jan 31, 2025Follow Up visit (Partial)5 of 5 areas in compliance
Jan 24, 2025Follow Up visit (Partial)8 of 8 areas in compliance
Jan 14, 2025Follow Up visit (Partial)6 of 6 areas in compliance
Jan 8, 2025Complaint visit (Partial)11 of 11 areas in compliance
Nov 1, 2024Other visit (Partial)13 of 14 areas in compliance
Oct 28, 2024Periodic visit (Full)31 of 39 areas in compliance
Jun 6, 2024STARS visit (Partial)8 of 8 areas in compliance
Jun 5, 2024Periodic visit (Full)38 of 39 areas in compliance
Feb 28, 2024Periodic visit (Full)36 of 36 areas in compliance
Feb 26, 2024Periodic visit (Attempted)0 of 0 areas in compliance

Is it licensed?

  • Child Care Center.
  • Ages accepted: Infants (0-11 months), Toddlers (12-23 months; 1yr.), Preschool (24-48 months; 2-4 yrs.), School-age (5 years-older).
  • Capacity: 55 children.
Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Oklahoma acted against it?

  • Oklahoma’s page shows no revocation notice, denial notice or emergency order.
  • 1 complaint on Oklahoma’s page, the first received on Jan 7, 2025. Oklahoma shows only substantiated complaints online.
Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Oklahoma’s locator doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Oklahoma’s locator doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Stars, Oklahoma’s quality rating: 4 Star Level Program.
Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 22 child care providers in Ponca City, the middle value for non-compliances cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 24.
Source:

Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 22 in Ponca City, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceNon-compliances cited in the last three years
A home child care provider0
A home child care provider1
Countryside Kids0
The Happy Hive5
Pioneer Tech Center Children’s Lab3
Child Development Center, Inc.17
First Lutheran School3
Ponca City Head Start2
St. Mary’s School Ccc2
Ponca Tribal Early Childhood Center This child care provider24
Building Blocks Learning Center43
A home child care provider0

What the record doesn’t say

  • Oklahoma’s statements of what a monitoring visit found don’t cite the rule that wasn’t met.
  • Oklahoma shows monitoring visits from the past three years only.
  • Oklahoma shows only substantiated complaints online. Its page also shows the plan to correct each one, which isn’t repeated here.
  • Oklahoma’s locator doesn’t say whether a provider holds a licence or a permit, or since when.
  • Oklahoma’s locator doesn’t name the county a provider is in.
  • Oklahoma’s locator doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

  • Oklahoma Human Services, Oklahoma Child Care Locator.

    Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain, by OKDHS’s Copyright and Ownership statement (oklahoma.gov/okdhs/notices/copyright.html): “all information on the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Web site is in the public domain, and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without the permission of OKDHS”.

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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An example nursing home

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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