§47.27(c)(2): Notifying the Health Department of a death or serious injury
This section requires the Health Department to be notified within 24 hours of the death or serious injury of a child in care. The public record does not say what the incident was.
| Health Code section | §47.27(c)(2) |
| Type | Practice |
| How DOHMH classifies it | Critical (100% of its citations) |
| Cited in our records | 45 times at 43 NYC centers |
| Marked open right now | 1 |
The city's wording
Department is Notified in 24 hours of the death or serious injury of a child in childcare by permittee
This is the text DOHMH or the state attaches to the citation. It is a template, so it can sound harsher or vaguer than the finding behind it.
Worth asking the center
What do you do when a child is seriously hurt, and who do you notify?
Reading it on a record
Look at whether the citation is marked open or corrected, how long ago it was cited, and whether the same section shows up on several inspections. One corrected citation is common. The same one on visit after visit is worth a direct question. Our guide to checking a daycare and methodology explain the rest.
Look up a center and read its record
Related sections
- §47.23(a): Supervision
- §47.27(b): Daily health check of children
- §47.23(f)(1): Teacher to child ratios
- §47.59(d): Fire drills
- §47.19(h)(3): Unsupervised contact before clearance
Counts are from the inspection records we hold, as of 2026-10-23. The plain-English note was written by NYC Daycare Check from the city's wording; the citation on each center's page is the record.