Ms Pams Child Care

A licensed child care home in Riesel, Texas 76682

1517 Rice Rd, Riesel, Texas 76682. (254) 896-2260.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in McLennan County: 6
0 rated High by Texas, its most serious level
7 inspections on record
4-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 132 child care providers in McLennan County had 6.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 11, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

5 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											Nov	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

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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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 11, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

Food Service and Preparation - Use Sanitary Holders

“The children’s snack was served on the bare table. This was corrected during the inspection when paper towels were provided for the children to eat their snack on.”

Rule 747.3117(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2026.

Apr 11, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram- Must Be On File

“The operation did not have an evacuation relocation diagram available for review.”

Rule 747.5007. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 16, 2025. Correction verified: May 14, 2025.
Children’s Products- Annual Certification

“The children’s product certification form was last signed in 2023. This was corrected during the inspection when the primary caregiver signed a children’s product certification verifying that she had reviewed the recall list.”

Rule 747.3935(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2025.
Children’s Records - Admission Information

“Out of four children’s files reviewed, one child was missing hearing and vision screening results, one needed an updated immunization record, and one was missing a health statement, physician information, and parental consent to emergency medical treatment.”

Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

May 23, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

Keep Record of Substitutions

“A substitution was made to the daily menu and not recorded. This was corrected during the inspection when the substitution was recorded on the menu.”

Rule 747.3113(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 23, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years

Apr 29, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

“During the inspection the provider over the counter medications were observed on a table accessible to children in care. This was corrected by the provider removing the medications from the table and placing in a area inaccessible to children in care.”

Rule 747.3501. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2022.
Furnishings and Equipment for Toddlers - Bottles & Training Cups Labeled for Each Toddler

“During the inspection bottles and training cups were observed without individual labels with names. This was corrected by the provider labeling the bottles during the inspection.”

Rule 746.2505(4)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2022.

All 9 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Feb 11, 2026	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Apr 11, 2025	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
May 23, 2024	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Jun 6, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 14, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 10, 2022	Report to the state	No violation found
Jul 27, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Apr 29, 2022	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Apr 21, 2022	Report to the state	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Apr 8, 1996.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 12 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 132 child care providers in McLennan County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 5.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 132 in McLennan County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Ms Pams Child Care This child care provider	5
Trinity Lutheran Early Childhood Center	5
Country Child Care	0
Little Rockets	2
Waco Child Development Center	14
Waco Child Development Infant	5
Marla Adams	0
Baylor Child Development Ctr	4
Connally Isd Child Care	28
Deanna Horn	0
Stephanie Amy	5
Veronica Corona	3

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 Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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