Licensing staff conduct inspections to home, center-based, and licensed facilities to determine if they meet minimum standards and licensing laws. Every licensed facility must be inspected at least once every 12 months, and at a minimum one inspection per year must be unannounced. Other inspections may be announced or unannounced.

Facilities are placed on a monitoring plan when they are issued a non-expiring license or certificate. The monitoring plan sets the intervals for the inspections by licensing representatives. The plan is based on an assessment of the facility or homes compliance history and other pertinent factors.

Every home-based facility must be inspected once every 3 years. At least one inspection every 3 years must be unannounced.