Metropolitan Baptist Church
A religious exempt child day center in Petersburg, Virginia 23803
1021 Halifax Street, Petersburg, Virginia 23803. (804) 479-3381.
Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. Virginia’s own record is on legacy.dss.virginia.gov.
The short answer
- No inspections on record in the last three years
- Sep 152022 the latest visit on record
- 70 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?
No inspection on Virginia’s record in the last three years.
2 inspections on record, the latest on Sep 15, 2022.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly.
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 Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly.
Sep 15, 2022: subsidy health and safety inspection2 deficiencies
-
Based on review of five staff records and interview, the vendor did not obtain, prior to employment, satisfactory results of a fingerprint-based national criminal background check for one staff member.
“Evidence: 1. The record for Staff #1 (employment date 09/06/2022) did not contain the results of the fingerprint-based national criminal background check. 2. Staff #1 was identified as a staff member working with children during the inspection. 3. Staff #5 stated she had not received the results of the fingerprint-based national criminal background check.”
-
Based on review of five staff records and interview, the vendor did not ensure at least one staff on duty had obtained instruction in performing a daily health observation of children within the last three years.
“Evidence: 1. The records for Staff #1, Staff #2, Staff #3, Staff #4 and Staff #5 did not contain documentation of Daily Health Observation training. 2. Staff #5 stated staff have not taken an official training regarding daily health observation of children.”
Sep 15, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
-
Based on review of five staff records and interview, the vendor did not ensure at least one staff on duty had obtained instruction in performing a daily health observation of children within the last three years.
“Evidence: 1. The records for Staff #1, Staff #2, Staff #3, Staff #4 and Staff #5 did not contain documentation of Daily Health Observation training. 2. Staff #5 stated staff have not taken an official training regarding daily health observation of children.”
-
Based on review of five staff records and interview, the center did not obtain satisfactory results of a fingerprint-based national criminal background check for one staff member prior to employment.
“Evidence: 1. The record for Staff #1 (employment date 09/06/2022) did not contain the results of the fingerprint-based national criminal background check. 2. Staff #1 was identified as a staff member working with children during the inspection. 3. Staff #5 stated she had not received the results of the fingerprint-based national criminal background check.”
All 2 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2022 | Inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | 2 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Religious Exempt Child Day Center: Exempt from licensure, expires May 6, 2027.
- Ages: 4 years - 12 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 70 children.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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?
- Not compared: with no inspection on Virginia’s record in the last three years, it has no count to compare.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Leona Buford | 2 |
| Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Richmond-Petersburg | 10 |
| The Father’s House Community Outreach Center | 23 |
| Trinity Missionary Baptist Church | 25 |
| Rosemary Kates | 9 |
| Little Angels Child Care and Learning Center | 23 |
| Harvest Child Care/BEVC | 6 |
| St. Joseph Catholic Church | 1 |
| Q’s Precious Angels Daycare LLC | 14 |
| Metropolitan Baptist Church This child care provider | Not compared |
| Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Richmond - Lakemont | 5 |
| Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Richmond - CSE | 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
-
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page.
Checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
-
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations.
Checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
-
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings.
Checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 27, 2026.
From the provider
The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.