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Family Child Care Home · MIDDLETOWN, CT 06457-1538 · License DCFH.45181

PATRICIA NIELSEN

License
Active
Expires Dec 31, 2029
On the record
1
1 from complaints
Open cases
0
No open cases in current records
Licensed since
1994
31 years on record

Every complaint, self-reported incident, and licensing-initiated case OEC has opened for this provider — opened, resolved, and noted as such. Click any row to see resolution text and any findings cited during related visits. 1 case on file.

2018
Complaint investigation · case 2018-464
Jun 25, 2018Closed Sep 6, 2018Referred to legal3 findings on this casePublic data matched
Case #
2018-464
Source
Complaints
Opened
Jun 25, 2018
Closed
Sep 6, 2018
Case ID
511610
Last updated
Sep 18, 2018
Referred to Legal Division
Findings cited on visits tied to this case

These are line items from OEC's compliance checklist — most centers accrue several per routine visit. Category labels are ours; the statute code and language are verbatim from the state record.

[19a-87b-10(h)]
RatioJun 27, 2018
46-Responsibilities of Provider & Substitute- Supervision
The provider shall be responsible for the supervision of the children at all times while the children are at the facility, indoors or outdoors or on excursions. It is done by a provider who is within effective sight or sound of the children. The provider's personal schedule shall ensure that the provider has sufficient rest for alert and competent attention to the children at the facility. The provider shall not engage in any activity while on duty during customary business hours that distracts his/her attention from providing family child care services. The provider shall give an injured, ill, or distressed child immediate appropriate attention. The provider shall not leave the presence of the day care children unless and until the substitute or emergency provider has assumed the provider's responsibilities and is actually present with the day care children.
[19a-87b-10(j)]
OtherJun 27, 2018
49-Responsibilities of Provider & Substitute- Failure to report
The provider shall report actual or suspected child abuse or neglect of any child to the nearest office of the Department of Children and Families as mandated by state law.
[19a-87b-10(j)]
PaperworkJun 27, 2018
48-Responsibilities of Provider & Substitute- Child protection
The provider shall not engage in, nor allow, abusive, neglectful, physical, corporal, humiliating or frightening treatment or punishment, and shall not tie nor bind children and shall not restrain children except in appropriate circumstances for the protection and safety of the children or others. The provider or substitute shall notify the Office of Early Childhood within twenty-four (24) hours of the death of any child enrolled in the family child care home, if the child died while at the facility or if the child died of a contagious disease or any injury to a child that occurs while the child is at the facility which results in the child being admitted to a hospital or the child's death.
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Public violation or enforcement-action records are attached below for this case.
Address
MIDDLETOWN, CT 06457-1538

Family child care homes are private residences.
Business type
Individual
License #
DCFH.45181
First licensed
Dec 31, 1994
Current term
Jan 1, 2026 Dec 31, 2029
Source: CT Office of Early Childhood via data.ct.gov · Synced 18h ago (Jun 22, 2026) · Report an issue with this record