Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 4 visits below. Across Denver home daycares it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
This provider does not publish pricing.
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.
Supervisory visit · August 20, 2024
2.312.D · Correction due September 20, 2024
Reviewed the providers file, identified Rachel to be missing CPR and 1st aid certification.
Required correction: Obtain CPR and 1st aid certification. Submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist. Correct by 09/20/2024
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 15 children files, identified Ch3 to be missing a current health evaluation.
Required correction: Obtain a current health evaluation for Ch3
2.311.A.14.a · Correction due September 20, 2024
Reviewed the providers file, identified Rachel to have an expired health evaluation. Expired 11/7/2023.
Required correction: Obtain current health evaluation. Submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist. Correct by 09/20/2024
Supervisory visit · September 21, 2023
7.707.71.A.2 · Correction due October 21, 2023
Reviewed 14 children files identified one child with an expired health statement.
Required correction: Obtain current health statement for child. Submit a statement of compliance by 10/21/2023. Correct by 10/21/2023
7.707.922.A
On kitchen wall push pins and small round magnets are on board,2 batteries in an unlocked drawer, causing possible choking hazard.
Required correction: Remove all items that could pose a choking hazard.
7.707.932.D · Correction due September 21, 2023
Red slide was placed on dirt.
Required correction: Immediately, 9/21/2023 play equipment over 2 feet high must be on protective surfacing. Submit a statement of compliance by 10/21/2023. Correct by 09/21/2023
7.707.934.C · Correction due September 21, 2023
Wood planks with nails sticking out, were along side of fence accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, 9/21/2023, all debris with hazards must be inaccessible to children. Submit a statement of compliance with photo documentation by 10/21/2023. Correct by 09/21/2023
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.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Rachel Nestel’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
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