Dominican Women's Development Center's public record shows 5 DOHMH inspections, with 7 critical violations cited in the last 3 years and 2 currently open, last inspected 2026-09-30. Per those records, the center has open lower-severity violations on record. The median licensed center in Manhattan has 2 critical violations over the same window. Its Article 47 drinking-water lead test is on file with no elevated result. Its license appears on DOHMH's current active-programs roster. The DOE also runs free 3-K here: its last admissions cycle drew 19 applications for 27 seats — 0.7 per seat, more applications per seat than 31% of 3-K sites in Manhattan (borough median 1.07). The DOE also runs free Pre-K here: its last admissions cycle drew 42 applications for 38 seats — 1.11 per seat, more applications per seat than 55% of Pre-K sites in Manhattan (borough median 1). Government records on this page are free; the interpretation layer (peer ranking, trend, cross-agency check) is the paid Safety Analysis.
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Inspection history
DOHMH inspection records, newest first, with each violation's official severity and current OPEN/CORRECTED status. We show the government record verbatim and don't grade it.
How to read this record
- Critical — DOHMH's classification for violations that pose a risk to children's health or safety. The center must correct these, and DOHMH follows up.
- General — lower-risk Health Code violations. They still must be corrected.
- OPEN — not yet recorded as corrected in the latest data. CORRECTED — fixed, and the correction is on the record.
- DOHMH inspects licensed centers routinely, after complaints, and to verify corrections — so a violation on record is normal; what matters is severity, whether it is still open, and whether it repeats. Details in our methodology.
Child care service fails to conduct and document daily health assessment of incoming children. Individual Not trained to identify disease.
What this means
Practice The center did not conduct and document a daily health assessment of children as they arrived, or the person doing it was not trained to identify disease.
Worth asking: Who checks the children each morning, and how is it recorded?
Staff and volunteers obtain documentation showing immunization with 2 doses measles/mumps, 1 dose rubella, 2 doses varicella and 1 dose Tdap. Medical exemptions only. History of measles, mumps or rubella shall Not replace MMR vaccine except in presence of MMR varicella antibodies.
What this means
Records The rule requires documentation showing that every staff member and volunteer has the required immunizations (measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox and Tdap), or a medical exemption. The citation concerns the records on file.
Worth asking: Do you keep immunization records current for every staff member, volunteers included?
DOHMH inspection summary: Reinspection Required; Fines pending
Enrolled children 6 months to 59 months have Not received FDA approved annual influenza immunization by December 31 of the year
What this means
Records Not every enrolled child aged 6 to 59 months had received the annual flu vaccine by December 31 of the year. The public record does not show how many children or whether exemptions were on file.
Worth asking: How do you track flu shots and exemptions each fall?
DOHMH inspection summary: Passed inspection with no violations
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