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New Building Blocks PreSchool

A child day center in Falls Church, Virginia 22042

7000 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church, Virginia 22042. (571) 282-3124.

Virginia’s own record, on legacy.dss.virginia.gov

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The short answer

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Every month

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?

19 inspections on record, the latest on Aug 25, 2026.

11 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

11 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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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:

Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.

Aug 25, 2026: subsidy health and safety inspection4 deficiencies
  • 22.1-289.035-B-1

    “The center is required to obtain a completed sworn statement prior to the employee’s first day of employment. The sworn statement for Staff #1, who is currently working, did not contain the question of whether the staff member had lived outside of Virginia in the past five years.”

    Rule 22.1-289.035-B-1.

  • 8VAC20-780-160-C

    “A tuberculosis (TB) screening is required every two years from the last screening. Staff #2 and Staff #3 were due for an updated screening over one month ago. Staff #4 was due for an updated screening over seven months ago. The updated screenings have not yet been completed.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-160-C.

  • 8VAC20-780-350-B-4

    “The required ratio for children ages three years up to school age eligible is one staff per ten children. The Pre-K classroom had twenty-one children in attendance with only two staff.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-350-B-4.

  • 8VAC20-780-60-A

    “Each center shall maintain and keep at the center a separate record for each child enrolled that contains all of the required information. The record for Child #1, enrolled for over one year, was missing the work phone number of one parent who has custody. The record for Child #2, enrolled for over twenty-two months, was missing the work phone number of one parent who has custody.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-60-A.

Feb 25, 2026: subsidy health and safety inspection2 deficiencies
  • 8VAC20-780-130-A

    “The center shall obtain documentation that each child has received the immunizations required by the State Board of Health before the child can attend the center. Child #2, who had been attending for five months, did not have documentation of an immunization record on file. Child #4, who had been attending for two months, did not have documentation of an immunization record on file.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-130-A.

  • 8VAC20-780-270-A

    “The center shall ensure that areas and equipment of the center, inside and outside, are maintained in a clean, safe and operable condition. Peeling paint was found in the center in areas accessible by children. A fence post on the playground needed repair.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-270-A.

Sep 23, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • 8VAC20-780-270-A

    “The center shall ensure that areas and equipment of the center, inside and outside, are maintained in a clean, safe and operable condition. A floorboard was broken on the playground, and another board was covering the broken area.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-270-A.

Feb 25, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years.

    “Staff #5 did not have documentation of requesting a check of the national sex offender registry.”

    Rule 22.1-289.035-B-4.

Sep 10, 2024: subsidy health and safety inspection1 deficiency
  • Based on staff record review, staff working directly with children did not complete he department’s health and safety update course annually.

    “Evidence: Staff #2 completed their last health and safety update on 8/9/2023.”

    Rule 8VAC20-790-600-F.

Sep 10, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Based on observation, the center did not obtain a copy of the results of a sex offender registry check, or a search of the child abuse and neglect registry from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding 5 years.

    “Evidence: 1. Staff #4 did not have results from the out-of-state sex offender registry. 2. Staff #4 did not have results from the out-of-state child abuse and neglect registry.”

    Rule 22.1-289.035-B-4.

  • Based on a review of medications, a written care plan for each child with a diagnosed food allergy, was not updated annually.

    “Evidence: Child #5’s allergy care plan expired on 09/06/2024. The emergency medication was observed on-site during the inspection.”

    Rule 8VAC20-780-60-A-8.

All 19 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 25, 2026Subsidy health and safety inspection4 violations cited
Feb 25, 2026Subsidy health and safety inspection2 violations cited
Sep 23, 2025InspectionNo violations cited
Sep 23, 2025Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited
Sep 23, 2025Inspection1 violation cited
Feb 25, 2025Inspection1 violation cited
Feb 25, 2025Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited
Sep 10, 2024Inspection2 violations cited
Sep 10, 2024Subsidy health and safety inspection1 violation cited
Apr 16, 2024InspectionNo violations cited
Apr 10, 2024Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited
Dec 19, 2023Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited
Dec 19, 2023InspectionNo violations cited
May 4, 2023InspectionNo violations cited
Nov 1, 2022Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited
Nov 1, 2022InspectionNo violations cited
Jun 8, 2022InspectionNo violations cited
Apr 12, 2022InspectionNo violations cited
Apr 12, 2022Subsidy health and safety inspectionNo violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires Apr 10, 2028.
  • A current subsidy provider.
  • Ages: 1 year 5 months - 7 years 11 months.
  • Capacity: 77 children.
Source:

Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.

Has Virginia acted against it?

  • 0 complaint inspections on record.
  • No complaint allegations published with findings.

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 1353 child care providers in Fairfax County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 7; this one had 11.
Source:

Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated weekly.

11 of the 1,353 in Fairfax County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
SACC at Beech Tree4
SACC at Graham Road Community Building11
SACC at Woodburn9
Gladis Loch24
James Lee Day Care/Preschool2
Emma Arteaga11
New Building Blocks PreSchool This child care provider11
Minu Thapa8
Miriam Medina28
Montessori School of Northern Virginia - Valleybrook Campus1
Elizabeth Sejas6
Metaphor International School10

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Virginia Department of Education. Virginia’s own record is on legacy.dss.virginia.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

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

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Replies

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How to read a record

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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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