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New Song Child Care

A licensed child care center in Corpus Christi, Texas 78415

3238 Holly, Corpus Christi, Texas 78415. (361) 334-5583.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

11 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 160 child care providers in Nueces County had 2.

16 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 15, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Mar 7, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance, at the inspection on Nov 18, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for, at the inspection on Sep 26, 2024

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

11 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Mar 17, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “Children in the prek classroom did not wash their hands prior to eating their snack/meal.”

    Rule 746.3417(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 15, 2026.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures

    “The emergency plan for the operation does not include how children under 24 months of age will be evacuated.”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2026.

Mar 7, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Poor judgement was demonstrated when food in the form of candy was being used as a reward.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 4, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 16, 2025.

Nov 18, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance

    “In the absence of the director, there is not a qualified assistant director in place.”

    Rule 746.1003(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2025.

  • Director present-Minimum 75%

    “The operations director is not at the operation 75% of the operating hours.”

    Rule 746.1011(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2025.

Oct 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Inspect Daily

    “The daily playground checklist inspections are not being documented. A large screw was found by a child on the playground. The large screw was given to the teacher, in front of the Licensing Inspector.”

    Rule 746.4751(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 11, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2024.

Sep 26, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for

    “One of the caregivers was not aware of the number of children she was responsible for.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 26, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2024.

Sep 24, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance

    “In the absence of the director, there is not a qualified assistant director in place.”

    Rule 746.1003(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2024.

  • Director present-Minimum 75%

    “The operations director is not at the operation 75% of the operating hours.”

    Rule 746.1011(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2024.

Apr 17, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Fed in Safe Manner

    “Bottles were observed in the cribs of two Infants.”

    Rule 746.2419(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Of the three children s files reviewed, one was missing the immunization.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 26, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Activity Plan - Child-Initiated - Equipment/Materials In Reach

    “In the toddler room, there was insufficient number of toys and equipment accessible to children. Toys, books, and puzzles are stored on high shelves out of reach of children.”

    Rule 746.2206(3)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2023. Correction verified: May 10, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Two out of eight children’s records evaluated did not have the required health statement on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: May 12, 2023.

May 31, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Arrangement of Napping Equipment -All Children Supervised

    “A five year old child was sleeping in the hallway during naptime. The child was separated from the group and the caregiver.”

    Rule 746.2909(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 31, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

  • Safety Requirements for Cribs - Snug Fitting Sheets

    “Two out of the five cribs in the infant room did not have tight, snug fitting sheets.”

    Rule 746.2409(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

  • Using, Storing and Disposing of Hazardous Materials

    “One classroom had a pair of adult scissors, bug spray, tape dispenser, and a bottle of children’s Ibuprofen stored in an unsecured cabinet accessible to children. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.3407(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 31, 2022.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “A caregiver was observed changing two infant diapers and did not wash the children’s hands after diaper change.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The outside play area had two pieces of stationary play equipment--one is an apparatus that has bicycle wheels and the other is a stationary bouncy on springs---both pieces of equipment have peeling paint and rust. Also observed overgrown grass underneath the play equipment and along the fence line of outside play area. There were several ant piles observed on the outside play area.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

May 17, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “A child’s whereabouts were unknown for approximately two minutes when child was found unsupervised in the restroom.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

  • Animals - Notify Parents in Writing

    “Operation did not notify parents in writing that an animal was present during operating hours.”

    Rule 746.3901(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2022.

All 20 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 17, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 25, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 7, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 10, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 26, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 24, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 17, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 26, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 6, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 31, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
May 17, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 30, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 58 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 160 child care providers in Nueces County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 11.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 160 in Nueces County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
New Song Child Care This child care provider11
Ludi’s Daycare5
Enchanted Childrens Academy7
After Hour Kid Power at Galvan0
Happy Octopus Early Education7
Lil Kidz Daycare3
The Tot Spot Learning Center Cc7
Upbring Head Start (Kids of the Neighborhood)0
Pep Carroll Ccisd1
Upbring Head Start (Stepping Stone)2
Normas Kidz World0
Bright Beginnings12

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 Oct 24, 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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