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Community Partners Fifthward Early Childhood Development Ctr

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77026

3917 Collingsworth St, Houston, Texas 77026. (713) 674-5437.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

19 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 29, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information, at the inspection on Oct 23, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on Oct 23, 2025

Rated High by Texas: AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited, at the report to the state on Oct 22, 2025

2 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 23, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “1 out of 8 children transported is missing emergency medical transport and treatment authorization. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the parent filled in the required info.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2025.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

    “The electronic child safety alarm is not installed and maintained according to the manufacturer’s instructions; is not connected to the vehicle’s horn.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

Oct 22, 2025: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited

    “This standard was evaluated and found to be in deficient with minimum standards. Based on the evidence obtained during the DFPS investigation, there is sufficient evidence to support the allegation of neglectful supervision.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2025.

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The transportation policies were not implemented when the driver failed to account for all children unloading from the van and entering the daycare center.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended

    “A child was not unloaded after transportation services and was left unattended on the transportation vehicle for up to 30 minutes.”

    Rule 746.5605(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • Sign-in and Sign-out Tracking System

    “The caregiver tasked with transporting children inaccurately signed a child in to the center?s sign-in and sign-out tracking system when the child unknowingly remained unsupervised in the center?s vehicle.”

    Rule 746.631(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

Jul 2, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “1 staff file is missing a Pre-Employment Affidavit for Applicants for Employment at Certain Child Care Operations.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 3, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2025.

Dec 2, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation did not have an updated sanitation inspection, the last one conducted was on 10/27/2023.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2024.

Jul 30, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records

    “1 caregiver’s file was not made available for review by Licensing.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 1, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 5, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The director failed to make a self-report.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2023. Correction verified: May 24, 2023.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “The parents were not made aware of the allegations involving their children until nearly a month later.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2023. Correction verified: May 24, 2023.

All 26 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 2, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 13, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 19, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 22, 2025Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Jul 2, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 2, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 21, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 30, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 19, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 15, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 31, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
May 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 5, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Aug 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 25, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 93 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.
  • 7 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 9.
Source:

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
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Dogan Head Start3
Kathy’s Daycare1
Community Partners Fifthward Early Childhood Development Ctr This child care provider9
Hornstead Learning Academy1
Imagination Island19
Dre’s Locker Room Community Center30
Tammy Harris2
Global Kiddos Academy22
Humble Beginners14
Small Steps Nurturing Center-5th Ward14
J B Adams School21
Yorkshire Academy4

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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