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St Jerome Early Childhood Ctr

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77080

8825 Kempwood Dr, Houston, Texas 77080. (713) 461-0835.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

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 Apr 24, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

8 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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.

Apr 24, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Seven of the reviewed children files did not have a complete emergency contact address.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2026. Correction verified: May 5, 2026.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “A reviewed infant feeding instruction was last updated on 1.30.26. This form was corrected during the inspection when the parent updated the infant feeding instruction.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2026.

Jul 29, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The space between the seesaw and a rotating equipment is 7ft. The use zone between the equipment overlaps.”

    Rule 746.4813(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 3, 2025.

Apr 28, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A caregiver was providing care for 12 two year olds. This was corrected when an additional caregiver arrived in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2025. Correction verified: May 21, 2025.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A large hole that posed a tripping hazard was located on the playground area. This was corrected when the director covered the hole.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2025.

May 13, 2024: inspection3 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 First Aid/CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2024. Correction verified: May 29, 2024.

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

    “Two children did not have their food allergy emergency plan on file.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2024. Correction verified: May 27, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Operating Times

    “The operations written operational policies did not address the following required topics: Promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity. A classroom that enables a mother to breastfeed her child. Preventing and responding to abuse and neglect of children. Procedures for supporting inclusive services to children with special care needs. Parents may visit the child-care center at any time during hours of operation. A child -care center is a gang-free zone.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

13 deficiencies older than three years
May 15, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

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

    “The fire inspection that was available for review expired on 11/21/2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2023.

  • Smoke Detectors Testing

    “There was no documentation showing that the smoke detector had been tested.”

    Rule 746.5319. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

    “The testing of the fire extinguisher was not documented.”

    Rule 746.5307(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Document Test Date, Battery Installation Date, and Staff Name Testing and Installation

    “The testing of the carbon monoxide detector was not documented.”

    Rule 746.5537(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

May 17, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “In two of the toddler classrooms the diaper changing mat had several tares in the middle of the changing mats. NOTE: Corrected at inspection when the two changing mats were replaced.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2022.

Feb 9, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “A three month old infant was sleeping in a bouncer. Corrected: When the caregiver took the infant out the bouncer.”

    Rule 746.2426. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2022.

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “In the toddler classroom it was dark when I walked in the classroom where it was hard to see the children. Corrected: When the caregiver open the blinds in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2022.

Jan 27, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “Two caregivers one in the infant class and one in the toddler class observed providing direct care to the infants in these classrooms prior to receiving eligibility status.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “A caregiver stated she had 10 children, when I counted they were 11 children in care the caregiver was unaware of how many children she had during nap time.”

    Rule 746.1203(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Children’s Names and Ages

    “The caregiver was unsure of the ages of the children she had in care.”

    Rule 746.1203(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

Jan 25, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “The toddler one class had 6 children in the group with one caregiver SAG 12-17 month of. The ratio for this class is one to five.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

Jan 13, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “The caregiver didn’t show good judgment when she yanked a child out of his seat and dragged him across the room.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “The caregiver used harsh punishment when she forcefully sitting the child down in a chair.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 4, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2022.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 24, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 29, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 13, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 15, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jun 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 1, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
May 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 17, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 9, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 27, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 25, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 14, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 13, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 14, 1991.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 153 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.
  • 3 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
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 8.
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
YMCA After School @ Pine Shadows16
Clay Road Baptist Early Child Care21
St Jerome Early Childhood Ctr This child care provider8
Ana Hall10
Dung Tran4
Christian Academy of Little Saints7
Aurora Ileana Cordon18
The Arbor School6
Spring Branch After-School Martial Arts10
Creative Care - Blalock11
Creative Care- Kempwood8
Cinthia Rodas1

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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