Barbara Mcmahon

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What kind of place is this?

Size 12 children licensed In the middle half for Denver home daycares, where the middle half licenses 6–12. Measured across 580 Denver home daycares, 2026-08-17.

Will it fit our family?

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Colorado Shines Level 1
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
February 5, 2026
On file
3 visits since March 2024 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was February 5, 2026. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.

Feb 2026 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · February 5, 2026

2.120.C.1.c · Correction due February 5, 2026

Identified through provider's statement that Resident #1 lives in the home and observed no documentation of Trails clearance for Resident #1.

Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Notify the Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the fingerprinting process. Correct by 02/05/2026

2.321.A.3

Reviewed 14 child files and observed no current documentation of health appraisal for 3 children.

2.320.A.7 · Correction due February 5, 2026

Reviewed 14 child files and observed no current documentation of emergency medical authorization for 1 child.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of emergency medical authorization. Correct by 02/05/2026

State records file

Feb 2025 Supervisory visit 6 findings

Supervisory visit · February 13, 2025

2.321.A.2.c.1 · Correction due February 13, 2025

Reviewed 13 child files and observed one child to have outdated documentation of nonmedical immunization documentation on a form dated 2016.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of nonmedical exemption form dated May 2023. Correct by 02/13/2025

2.321.A.3

Reviewed 13 child files and observed 2 children to have no documentation of health statement and 1 child to have expired documentation of health statement.

2.312.K · Correction due March 15, 2025

Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no dcumentation of Playground Safety training for staff member Alejandra.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Playground Safety training for Alejandra Correct by 03/15/2025

2.312.M · Correction due March 15, 2025

Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Introduction to Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training for provider Barbara and staff member Alejandra.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Introduction to Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training for provider Barbara and staff member Alejandra. Correct by 03/15/2025

2.312.P

Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Injury Prevention for Homes training for staff member Alejandra.

2.312.Q · Correction due March 15, 2025

Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant for provider Barbara.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation for provider Barbara. Correct by 03/15/2025

State records file

Mar 2024 Supervisory visit 8 findings

Supervisory visit · March 20, 2024

2.336.C.1 · Correction due March 20, 2024

One box of gallon size ziploc bags in an unlocked drawer in the kitchen accessible to children and posing a potential hazard.

Required correction: Immediately make all hazardous items inaccessible to children. CORRECTED AT TIME OF INSPECTION - provider moved ziploc bags to a high cabinet making them inaccessible to children. No response required. Correct by 03/20/2024

2.321.A.3

Reviewed 9 child files and observed 2 children to have expired health statements and 1 child to have no documentation of a health statement.

2.311.A.14 · Correction due April 20, 2024

Reviewed provider's file and observed no documentation of current health statement and no documentation of a health statement for resident Sam B.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of health statement. Correct by 04/20/2024

2.312.H · Correction due March 20, 2024

Reviewed 3 staff files and observed no current documentation of Abuse Prevention training for provider Barbara.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of abuse training. Correct by 03/20/2024

Reviewed 3 staff files and observed provider Barbara's FBI clearance to be expired.

2.120.A · Correction due March 20, 2024

Identified through provider's statement that staff aides Aspen B and Alejandra V work with the provider. Specialist observed no documentation of Trails clearance for staff members Aspen B and Alejandra V.

Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Notify Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the Trails application. Correct by 03/20/2024

2.120.C.1.c

Identified through provider's statement that Sam B now resides in the home as a tenant. Specialist observed no documentation of Trails clearance for resident Sam B.

2.313.A · Correction due March 20, 2024

Reviewed 3 files and observed no complete staff file for staff aide Alejandra V.

Required correction: Obtain and maintain complete records for staff files to be available for review upon request by the department. Correct by 03/20/2024

State records file

Where this record comes from

The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.

The file this page is built from arrived on September 13, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.

The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.

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Barbara Mcmahon hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.

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What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Licensing and contact

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