Hearth Record

The Growing Patch Early Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Weslaco, Texas 78596

713 S Missouri Ave, Weslaco, Texas 78596. (956) 376-6730.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 16, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jan 16, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Dec 20, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Covering Infant’s Head or Crib, at the inspection on Jan 9, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

9 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 16, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “There is no current fire inspection. The last one was completed on 1/10/2025.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 12, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “For the year being reviewed, staff files reviewed were lacking the following training topics: preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction and handling, storing and disposing of hazardous material.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2026.

Dec 20, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “There is no current fire inspection. The last one completed is dated 12/1/2023.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “There was one caregiver with 7 infants. (NOTE: Corrected during inspection as the caregiver who was out to lunch returned to the classroom)”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2024.

Jan 9, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Covering Infant’s Head or Crib

    “There was an infant asleep on a mat whose face was covered by a blanket. (NOTE: Corrected during inspection as the caregiver removed the blanket from infants face.)”

    Rule 746.2429. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There were containers of LYSOL/Clorox wipes sitting on a shelf that were accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2024.

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “The diaper changing mat in the infant room had a covering which made the mat absorbant and it could not be easily cleaned.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2024.

  • Written Activity Plan - Group Name and Dates

    “The posted activity plan in the toddler room was not dated.”

    Rule 746.2205(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Operating Times

    “There was no completed set of operational policies available for review.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2024.

13 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 23, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Documentation of Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “Documentation of last Health Inspection was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.3403. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 9, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Training hours were missing in two records reviewed.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 9, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 28, 2022.

Feb 9, 2022: inspection11 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Telephone Numbers for Each Child

    “Children’s information was missing on transportation vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “Fire extinguisher was missing on transportation vehicle. Note: This was corrected during inspection as a fire extinguisher was placed on the vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “First aid kit was misisng on trasportation vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Classroom was observed over ratio as one caregiver was supervising five infants 8 - 13 months and two toddlers 19months and 2 year old. Note: This was corrected during inspection as owner stepped into the classroom and a second caregiver came in to the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Confine in a Restrictive Device

    “A 3 years old child was observed sleeping in a playpen during naptime.”

    Rule 746.2905(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Documentation of Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “Mos recent health inspection was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.3403. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “Trash cans in restrooms were observed without a lid leaving toilet paper accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Documentation of Fire Inspection

    “Documentation of last fire inspection was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    “Child was observed sleeping in a torn nap mat. Note: This was corrected during inspection as nap mat was removed.”

    Rule 746.4503(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One out of seven records reviewed was missing immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Two out of four records reviewed were missing the following information: -Affidavit -Training hours - Proof of qualifications”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 16, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 9, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
May 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 2, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 23, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 9, 2022Inspection11 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 30, 2012.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 86 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 9.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Growing Patch Early Learning Center This child care provider9
Bess Knapp Child Development and Child Care0
The Learning Corner4
Children’s Footprints Learning Center3
Westgate Learning Academy2
Little Lions Learning Center5
Lollipops and Dragons, LLC3
Little Adventurers Child Development Center, LLC1
Maelee’s Learning Academy #24
Fox Tree Learning Center1
Maelee’s Learning Academy5
Maelee’s Learning Academy 33

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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