Lakewood · Licensed family home
Katherine Hutchins
- Full-size family home, licensed for up to 12 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 2 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.
State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood
- Last visit
- August 15, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since July 2024 · 2 complaint investigations
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was July 25, 2025. 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.
Aug 2025 Complaint
Complaint · August 15, 2025
2.336.C.1
push pins in the basement on bulletin board accessible to children causing a potential safety hazard. Observed children under 3 years in care at time of visit.
Aug 2025 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · August 15, 2025
Jun 2025 Supervisory visit 6 findings
Supervisory visit · June 11, 2025
2.321.A.5 · Correction due July 25, 2025
reviewed 15 children files and observed ch10 to have expired health statement as of 2.2025.
Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for child and add to child's file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 07/25/2025
2.320.A.7
reviewed 15 children files and observed Ch7 and Ch11 to have expired emergency medical authorization. CH7 expired 2/24/25. CH11 expired 5/29/25.
2.312.H · Correction due June 11, 2025
reviewed 3 staff files ( included provider file) and observed N. to have no documentation of child abuse prevention and reporting training. N. DOH 12/2024.
Required correction: Obtain current department approved child prevention and reporting training and add to staff file. Correct immediatly and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 06/11/2025
2.312.D.1 · Correction due June 11, 2025
reviewed 3 staff files ( included provider file) and observed M. to have expired 1st aid CPR as of 2/3/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current 1st aid CPR for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 06/11/2025
2.312.J
reviewed 15 children files and observed ch15 to have immunization documentation on non-approved form.
Required correction: Obtain current immunizations on Colorado Department of Public Health and Enviroment approved for and add
2.336.C.1 · Correction due June 11, 2025
in Music/ Gross motor room wall with children's art work to be displayed with push pins causing a potential safety hazard and with in reach of children. Box of push pins is labeled "keep out of reach of children"
Required correction: All hazardous items and materials must be inaccessible to children. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 06/11/2025
Jul 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · July 2, 2024
2.318.C.3 · Correction due July 2, 2024
reviewed programs file and observed no documentation of smoke alarm testing for program.
Required correction: Obtain current smoke alarm testing documentation for program and add to file and send written verification ot specialist with response. Correct by 07/02/2024
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 October 10, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in October 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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Details
- Area
- Lakewood, 80228
- License
- 1764236, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Details
- License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked October 2026 data.colorado.gov
Full-size means licensed for 12 children, the most any Denver-area family home holds; 213 of Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes are. Small is 4 to 6; mid-size is 7 to 11.