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Guiding Hands Christian Academy

A licensed child care center in Sanger, Texas 76266

416 Bolivar St, Sanger, Texas 76266. (940) 777-8909.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 490 child care providers in Denton County had 3.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 13, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 8, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “One caregiver had expired CPR/First Aid.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2026.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The fence was observed with broken planks and protruding nails.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 16, 2026.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “The floors were observed to be in disrepair.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 9, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2026.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The last fire inspection was conducted on 8/28/2025.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 12, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2026.

Oct 14, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Rotating and Rocking Equipment - No Overlap

    “The operation had two pieces of non-stationary equipment with overlapping use zones. This was correct at the inspection when the equipment was moved to meet the required 12 ft of use zone space between them.”

    Rule 746.4813(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2025.

  • Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing

    “The operation did not have the required amount of loose-fill (6 inches) around the rocking/bouncing or sliding equipment.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

Oct 23, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Three children with diagnosed allergies did not have a special needs statement aligning with the diagnosis.”

    Rule 746.605(12). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 25, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 3, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “The operation’s director did not use good judgment by having a caregiver present at the operation caring for children with a communicable disease.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2023.

Nov 1, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “One caregiver did not have current pediatric first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 2, 2023.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “The director did not have transportation training at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 2, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 2, 2023.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “Two children with diagnosed food allergy checked on their admission form did not have a food allergy on file at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 8, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 2, 2023.

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “The director did not have all the required information on training certificates.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 2, 2023.

Nov 3, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child did not have updated immunizations in their file at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 11, 2022.

All 21 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 13, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 8, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 20, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 14, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 18, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 6, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 24, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 1, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 15, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 12, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 88 children.
Source:

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.
  • 6 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 490 child care providers in Denton County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 7.
Source:

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

11 of the 490 in Denton County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Guiding Hands Christian Academy This child care provider7
The Crayon Box Daycare6
Tammy Welborn0
The Bridge Enrichment and Learning Center at Sanger0
Alphabest @ Clear Creek-Sanger3
Alphabest @ Butterfield-Sanger3
Alphabest @ Chisholm-Sanger0
Kandy SchultzNot given
Carousel Academy5
Twylia BrownNot given
Sanger Isd Tenderfoot Child Development Center8
Holy Covenant Early Childhood Development Program0

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 5, 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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