The purpose of this paper is to propose Contact Hours as a new metric replacing staff child ratios and group size as well as using it as a new threshold measure for COVID19 thresholds. This paper will attempt to validate the key parameters for testing out the Contact Hour (CH) methodology in a series of facilities to determine its efficacy. The pilot validation study will determine if this CH methodology has any merit in being able to measure regulatory compliance with adult-child ratios. Since monitoring of facilities will not be occurring during the COVID19 pandemic are there ways to measure the research question in the previous sentence. Yes there is and it is based upon the Contact Hour (CH) methodology and involves asking the following six questions (The six questions should be asked of each grouping that is defined by a classroom or a well-defined group within each classroom tied to a specific adult-child ratio.): 1. When does your first teaching staff arrive or when does your facility open (TO1)? 2. When does your last teaching staff leave or when does your facility close (TO2)? 3. Number of teaching/caregiving staff (TA)? 4. Number of children on your maximum enrollment day (NC)? 5. When does your last child arrive (TH1)? 6. When does your first child leave (TH2)?  (author abstract)