Little Hearts Learning Center

A licensed child care home in Houston, Texas 77084

5738 Strong Creek Dr, Houston, Texas 77084. (281) 815-7368.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Harris County: 4
3 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
13 inspections on record
Not rated Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on May 19, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Controlling Person - Submit Controlling Person Form to Licensing within two days after a person becomes a controlling person. See TAC 745.901, at the assessment on May 5, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Controlling Person - Submit Controlling Person Form to Licensing within two days after a person becomes a controlling person. See TAC 745.901, at the report to the state on Feb 27, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Nov 28, 2023

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

May 5, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

Controlling Person - Submit Controlling Person Form to Licensing within two days after a person becomes a controlling person. See TAC 745.901

“Director removed spouse from the controlling person list after receiving Background check results.”

Rule 745.903(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2026. Correction verified: May 6, 2026.

Feb 27, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies

Controlling Person - Submit Controlling Person Form to Licensing within two days after a person becomes a controlling person. See TAC 745.901

“The required form was not submitted to licensing within the required timeframe.”

Rule 745.903(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 14, 2026.
Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

“The operation failed to maintain accurate and reliable child enrollment and attendance records. Evidence from another inspection confirmed the primary caregiver admitted children enrolled in her home who receive subsidy reimbursement for the food program are also simultaneously enrolled in other childcare homes and receiving subsidy reimbursement for the food program”

Rule 747.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

Nov 10, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Immunization Record Upon Admission

“3 out of 11 children did not have immunizations upon admission.”

Rule 747.613(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 24, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 11, 2025.
Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

“11 children in care did not have there cots labeled with a name or number. This was corrected when the caregiver labeled the cots with each childs name.”

Rule 747.4303(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

Nov 13, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

Fenced Outdoor Activity Space

“In the backyard a piece of wood was missing from the fence. Note: This was corrected when the fence was replaced during the inspection.”

Rule 747.4105. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2024.
Required Health Statement

“4 out of 6 children did not have a physician statement on file.”

Rule 747.611(a). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2024.

Nov 28, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

“A caregiver caring for children did not have an eligible background check. Corrected during inspection: The caregiver left the home.”

Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023.

15 deficiencies older than three years

May 26, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

Safety Requirements for Cribs - No Areas to Entrap Head or Body

“it was observed in the infant room 2 playpens had ripped net(s).”

Rule 747.2309(a)(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 2, 2023. Correction verified: May 30, 2023.
Personnel Records-Proof of Background Check Request

“It was observed an unauthorized caregiver was caring for three children, without a background check. Note: Corrected at inspection caregiver immediately left the operation.”

Rule 747.901(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 26, 2023. Correction verified: May 26, 2023.

May 25, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device - Remove the infant from the device and place the infant in a crib as soon as possible

“Photos provide of an infant sleeping on a bouncer.”

Rule 747.2326(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 8, 2023.

Nov 30, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Smoke Detectors Testing

“The smoke detector in a room used for children was needed to change batteries. Note: this was corrected at the inspection time.”

Rule 747.5115. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2022.
Minimum Qualifications for Assistant Caregiver - Orientation

“Two assistant caregivers do not have the orientation training of the child-care home available to review during the inspection time.”

Rule 747.1207(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2022.
Minimum Qualifications for Assistant Caregiver - Affidavit

“Two caregivers do not have to review a notarized Licensing Affidavit for Applicants for Employment form.”

Rule 747.1207(6). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2022.

Sep 1, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

Adequate Lighting During Naptime

“I observed the garage room pitch black while inspecting the home.”

Rule 747.2811. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 7, 2022.

Dec 6, 2021: inspection8 deficiencies

AP Never exceed capacity of the home

“During the walk though, the home had a total of 13 children which exceeds permit holder capacity of 12.”

Rule 747.207(10). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.
Required Immunizations

“Two out of thirteen children files did not have immunizations available for review during the inspection.”

Rule 747.613(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 9, 2021.
Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

“One out of eleven children files did not have a allergy preparedness plan for a child that has a nut allergy.”

Rule 747.3619. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 10, 2021.
Caregivers Annual Training-counted in ratio more than 10 times in a training year

“Two out of four personnel files was missing trainings in the following: Guidance and discipline, Teacher-child interaction, Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, including immunizations and Cultural diversity for children and families.”

Rule 747.1305(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 9, 2021.
Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

“The cots were not labeled during the inspection. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when the asst. caregiver labeled each cot with each child name.”

Rule 747.4303(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2021.
Children’s Records Accessible - to Caregiver

“Two out of thirteen files was not available for reviewing during the inspection.”

Rule 747.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 9, 2021.
Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

“Four out of five personnel files did not have affidavits in their files.”

Rule 747.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 9, 2021.
Primary Caregiver Annual Training - More Than 5 Years Experience

“The director was missing hours in management techniques, leadership, or staff supervision”

Rule 747.1309(e)(2). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2021.

All 17 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
May 19, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
May 13, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
May 11, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
May 5, 2026	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Mar 5, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 27, 2026	Report to the state	2 deficiencies cited
Nov 10, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Nov 13, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Nov 28, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Jun 8, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
May 26, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
May 25, 2023	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Nov 30, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Sep 7, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 1, 2022	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Dec 15, 2021	Inspection	No violation found
Dec 6, 2021	Inspection	8 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Jul 14, 2014.
Its permit has conditions.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 12 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 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?

Not rated in Texas Rising Star.

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 8.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
The Bear Creek Kindercare	8
Bear Creek UMC School	1
Maria R Tafhurt	1
Katy Isd East Transportation	8
Graciela Fonseca	Not given
Little Leaders Academy	2
Little Hearts Learning Center This child care provider	8
Sylvia Home Child Care	4
Trang Pham Duong	9
Adriana Martinez	Not given
Mon Petit Learning Center	1
Tuyen Ly	8

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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