Hearth Record

Alphabest @ Nance Elementary - Northwest

A licensed child care center in Fort Worth, Texas 76131

701 Tierra Vista Way, Fort Worth, Texas 76131. (469) 500-1631.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 920 child care providers in Tarrant County had 3.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 20, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on May 5, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

14 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.

Jul 20, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “3 of the 3 staff files reviewed did not have the required 15 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 31, 2026.

May 28, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “3 of the 3 staff files reviewed did not have the required 15 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 20, 2026.

Apr 23, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “3 of the 3 staff files reviewed did not have the required 15 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2026. Correction verified: May 28, 2026.

  • Medication No Longer Used

    “At the time of the inspection 1 of the epi pens on file was expired.”

    Rule 744.2659. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 20, 2026.

Oct 1, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Designating Director

    “The operation does not have a designated site director.”

    Rule 744.201(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2025.

May 5, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “The children’s files did not have the emergency medical authorization for review.”

    Rule 744.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2025. Correction verified: May 21, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information-Emergency Contact

    “None of the emergency contacts had an address on file.”

    Rule 744.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2025. Correction verified: May 21, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics in Health and Safety

    “All of the caregiver files did not have the annual topics in health and safety training for review.”

    Rule 744.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2025. Correction verified: May 23, 2025.

Jan 10, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Designating Director

    “The operation does not have a qualified site director designated.”

    Rule 744.201(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2025.

Sep 24, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered Areas Accessible to Children Under 5

    “At the time of follow up, the electrical outlets are not covered in area that 4 year olds are present.”

    Rule 744.2601(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Report Change in Director

    “The listed site director is no longer employeed at the operation.”

    Rule 744.303(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2024.

Aug 29, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered Areas Accessible to Children Under 5

    “The electrical outlets are not covered in area that 4 year olds are present.”

    Rule 744.2601(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 24, 2024.

  • Emergency Exit Not Through Kitchen or Hazardous Area

    “One of the required exits for the operations is through the kitchen area or hazardous construction area. All other doors are locked.”

    Rule 744.3563(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 24, 2024.

  • Provide Access to Children’s Records - During Hours of Operation

    “The children’s files are on a system that is unable to be used, therefore making them inaccessible to caregivers and not available for licensing to review.”

    Rule 744.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 24, 2024.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 20, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 28, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Apr 23, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 1, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 5, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 10, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Nov 19, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 25, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 24, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 13, 2024AssessmentNo violation found
Aug 29, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 13, 2018.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 80 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?

  • 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 920 child care providers in Tarrant County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 14.
Source:

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

11 of the 920 in Tarrant County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little America Daycare18
Alphabest @ Nance Elementary - Northwest This child care provider14
Mary Ann’s Childcare0
Primrose School of NW Fort Worth9
Timathea Griffith9
The Goddard School of Fort Worth9
Northwest YMCA Copper Creek Elementary5
Alphabest @ Berkshire- Northwest10
YMCA Gililland Elementary6
Margie Davis16
YMCA Hatley Elementary13
Arica BusbyNot given

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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