Fort Lewis Baptist Church
A religious exempt child day center in Salem, Virginia 24153
4215 West Main Street, Salem, Virginia 24153. (540) 380-2721.
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The short answer
- 4 deficiencies in the last three years
- Jul 172025 the latest visit on record
- 115 children, its capacity in the state’s list
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?
1 inspection on record, the latest on Jul 17, 2025.
4 violations cited in the last three years.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
When those deficiencies happened
4 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 | Nov |
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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.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Jul 17, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
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The center must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the first day of employment for each staff person.
“Staff #3, who had been employed for more than 2 months, did not have a completed national criminal background check. Staff #4, who had been employed for more than a year, did not have a completed national criminal background check. Staff $6, who had been employed for more than 2 years, did not have a completed national criminal background check.”
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The center must request a search of the central registry prior to the employee’s first day of employment.
“Staff #3, who had been employed for more than 2 months, did not have a central registry search requested. Staff #3 was working with children. Staff #8, who had been employed for more than a year, did not have a central registry search requested. Staff #8 was working with children.”
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Upon enrollment of a child in a regulated child day program, the child day program shall require information regarding previous child day care and schools attended, from the person enrolling the child.
“Information regarding previous child care and schools attended was not obtained for Child #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7.”
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22.1-289.058
“Each building that was built before 2015 and that houses a child day program that serves preschool-age children shall be equipped with at least one carbon monoxide detector. Center is housed in a building built before 2015 serving pre-school age children, did not have at least one carbon monoxide detector.”
The one visit on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2025 | Inspection | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Religious Exempt Child Day Center: Exempt from licensure, expires Mar 16, 2027.
- Ages: 3 years - 12 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 115 children.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Has Virginia acted against it?
- 0 complaint inspections on record.
- No complaint allegations published with findings.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations and Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who does the caring?
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t show a quality rating.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 31 child care providers in Roanoke County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 7; this one had 4.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Fort Lewis Baptist Church This child care provider | 4 |
| St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | 0 |
| North Cross School | 8 |
| Thrasher Memorial United Methodist Church | Not given |
| North Star Child Care | 3 |
| Honeytree Early Learning Center #6 - Hollins | 40 |
| HoneyTree Early Learning Center #11 | 35 |
| Cave Spring Baptist Church | 5 |
| Ms. Arlene Simmons | 0 |
| April Caudle | 16 |
| Children’s Castle Early Learning Center, Inc. | 10 |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc of VA Blue Ridge-Cloverdale | 5 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Virginia doesn’t grade how serious a violation is, so no severity is shown.
- Virginia publishes a complaint’s allegations and findings only when its inspection found a violation and the records are linked.
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
- A plan of correction sent late, or not at all, isn’t online: Virginia says to ask the inspector.
- Virginia’s pages show about the last five years of inspections; for older ones, Virginia says to contact the licensing inspector.
- Virginia says this information may not be accurate, up to date or complete, and shouldn’t be the only source in choosing care.
Sources
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.
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Replies
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