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Okay, so we are NOT the David Letterman
show, we can still have our own Top 10 List.
In case you wondered, each and every comment
that comes in on the score forms are read.
These comments from visitors and directors
help us understand why standards are missed,
and they tell us a lot! Below are the top
ten missed standards in order.
#1. HW-6 Health
Exams – Missed by 19 percent of resident
camps and is usually missed by choice of
the camp. Comments indicate that this standard
is most often missed for philosophical and/or
economical reasons.
#2. HW-11B Health Care – Missed
by 18 percent of resident camps. This is
the standard that requires a registered nurse
to be on the camp site daily. Comments again
indicate that it is typically the choice
of the camp and is often missed due to location
of the camp and or shortage of willing and
available RNs in the area.
#3. SF-20 Refrigeration – This
standard was missed by 7 percent of camps
typically due to a missed chart on a stray
refrigerator (i.e., staff area or health
center units).
#4. OM-10 Personal
Property Regulations – Missed
by 5 percent of camps typically because
not all of the items listed in the standard
are included in writing for campers and/or
staff.
#5. HW-12 Treatment
Procedures – Missed by 5 percent of
camps. This standard is often scored “no” because
the camp has not updated their treatment
procedures or had them reviewed by a licensed
physician.
#6. SF-16 Bunk Guardrails – This
standard is usually missed because the camp
chooses not to use upper- bunk guardrails;
4percent of camps missed this standard.
#7.
HR-10A Staff Age Requirements – Again,
4 percent of camps miss this standard by
choice as they will use sixteen and seventeen-year-olds
as staff members.
#8. SF-18 Hot Water
Controls – The
water is too hot at 4 percent of the camps
visited. Either the temperature is set too
high or the camp is not using mixing valves.
#9. HR-3C Hiring Policies – This is
a new component to the hiring policies standard,
and 4 percent of camps had not addressed
the screening of year-round staff in their
camp policies.
#10. SF-6 Electrical
Evaluation (35/862) – The electrical evaluation
standard now requires written documentation,
and 4 percent of camps visited did not have
any documentation on the day of their visit.
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