Program Name: St. Luke's Child Development Center    License/Registration ID: 40959


 Program Overview
Contact Name: James Henson Contact Title: Director
Program Type: Day Care Center Status: Open
School District: Farmingdale
Site Address: Map
145 Prospect Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735
First Licensed/Registration Date: Apr 11, 1989
Current Registration Period: Apr 11, 2023 - Apr 10, 2027
Phone: (516) 756-9573
Fax:
Total Capacity: 219
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 41
-Preschool: 128
-School-Age: 50
Open Child Care Slots*:
This information was self reported to OCFS on 3/15/2024 10:31:38 AM
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 0
-Preschool: 0
-School-Age: 0

*Important Note: This self reported information on open child care slots can quickly change.


Please contact this program for the most current openings.


Care available during non-traditional hours: No
Removed from referral list: No
This facility has Non-Patient Specific Auto Injectors.

For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Long Island Regional Office
Phone: (631) 240-2560
For additional details and to view the checklist used during an inspection, please click on the Inspection ID links below. Inspection checklists are generated per inspection type and reason. Also note, that any regulatory requirement can be assessed and cited during an inspection and as a result, may not be reflected on the inspection checklist. These items would be reflected in the program's compliance history that is posted.

 Inspection History: (Inspections in the past 24 months)

Date Inspection Type Inspection ID Inspection Result  
Feb 25, 2025 Annual Unannounced 2025-I-LIRO-001856 Violations Found
Oct 18, 2024 Monitoring 2024-I-LIRO-103283 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jun 14, 2024 Monitoring 2024-I-LIRO-051955 Violations Found
May 24, 2024 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-048221 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 30, 2024 Annual Unannounced 2024-I-LIRO-001454 Violations Found
Dec 12, 2023 Complaint (Substantiated) 2023-I-LIRO-054551 Violations Found
Oct 20, 2023 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2023-I-LIRO-047533 Violations Found
Oct 20, 2023 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2023-I-LIRO-047516 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 12, 2023 Other 2023-I-LIRO-043618 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Off-Site
Jul 31, 2023 Complaint (Substantiated) 2023-I-LIRO-038269 Violations Found
Additional Inspection History

*Inspections may be conducted outside of program operating hours and/or off-site(where inspector was not on premises where care is provided) for the following reasons:
-Record/File Review
-Interviewing of Staff
-Or Other Investigative Reasons

 Compliance History
Date of Last Inspection: Feb 25, 2025 Currently uncorrected violations: None
Date Regulation Description Compliance Status as of last inspection
Feb 25, 2025 418-1.15(c)(5) 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: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; Corrected
Jun 14, 2024 418-1.15(c)(5) 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: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.5(f) Barriers must exist to prevent children from gaining access to unsafe areas. Such areas include, but are not limited to, swimming pools, drainage ditches, wells, ponds, or other bodies of open water, holes, wood and coal burning stoves, fireplaces, pellet stoves, permanently installed gas space heaters, or any other unsafe area. Corrected
Dec 12, 2023 418-1.9(k) Withholding or using food, rest or sleep as a punishment is prohibited. Corrected
Oct 20, 2023 418-1.15(c)(5) 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: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.8(a) 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. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.9(a) The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.9(j) Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.9(m) Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.10(c)(1) Child care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.15(b)(4) The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits. Corrected
Jul 31, 2023 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, Corrected
*Violations are posted on this web site after the inspection results have been finalized in a report mailed to the provider. Violations are listed here as 'Corrected' after the Office has verified corrections with the provider, and a letter confirming the corrections has been mailed to the provider.
For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Long Island Regional Office
Phone: (631) 240-2560

 Enforcement History
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The enforcement actions listed on this website only include denial, revocation or suspension of a child care program's license or registration. Fines are not shown on this website. OCFS stops referring families to the program if a program's license or registration is closed, revoked or suspended.

Other enforcement actions such as Corrective action plans and fines are not shown on this website.
Enforcement Actions since April, 2020: None