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Little Laughter’s Childcare Center

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77038

10209 Veterans Memorial Dr Ste 5, Houston, Texas 77038. (281) 445-6959.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 28, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Nov 12, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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.

Nov 12, 2025: inspection9 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    The inspectors’ words, 101 words

    “The operational policies is lacking the following information: 1. The benefits of outdoor play, the duration of the indoor and outdoor physical activity, the type of indoor and outdoor physical activity, the setting, the criteria used when the weather prevents outdoor play and the plan for physical activity when outdoor play is limited. 2. Parents Rights 3. Steps the center will take to increase parent and staff awareness of child abuse and neglect, community organizations you will work with and actions a parent of a child who is a victim of abuse should take to obtain assistance. 4. Water activities offered”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “There were 9 children, ages 8-22 months, with one caregiver. The specified age group was 12-17 months. With this specified age group, one caregiver can care for 5 children.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The kid safety alarm on the van is not working properly; it’s not turning off when the button is pushed.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training - 6 Hours of annual training required

    “Two caregivers recived 3 of the 6 required clock hours of training in child development, discuipline and guidnace, age-appropriate activities and teacher/child interaction.”

    Rule 746.1309(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

  • Written Activity Plans

    “The center does not have written activity plans for the infant and toddler age children.”

    Rule 746.2203(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Of the six children’s records evaluated, the following information was missing: 1. Five lacked the required information regarding water activities. 2. Five lacked the required information regarding special needs.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training-Self-Instructional 80%

    “Two caregivers will need to receive in-person training hours.”

    Rule 746.1309(g). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

  • Director Annual Training - More than 5 years experience

    “The director did not receive 3 hours of training in management techniques, leadership, or staff supervision for the February 2024-February 2025 training year.”

    Rule 746.1311(f)(2). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Of the six children’s evaluated, five lacked a health statement from the doctor.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

1 deficiency older than three years
Dec 1, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “A caregiver in the pre-k classroom was present and caring for children prior to having a completed initiall background check. The caregiver left the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2021.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 28, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Dec 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 12, 2025Inspection9 deficiencies cited
Nov 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 1, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 20, 2016.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 64 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.
  • 1 report 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: 3-Star (the middle 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
Little Laughter’s Childcare Center This child care provider9
Rina’s Childcare21
Bambini Daycare10
2 Unique Kids Learning Academy16
Jacquelene WardsworthNot given
Francisca AndinoNot given
Latonya Denise StewartNot given
Eternity Christian Childcare6
Alpha Academy18
Unity Child Care14
Bright Stars Cdc13
Touch of Class Day Care18

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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