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Little Hands Day Care

A licensed child care home in Houston, Texas 77092

6714 Thornwall St, Houston, Texas 77092. (832) 763-4366.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

12 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 Aug 12, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the report to the state on Jun 15, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Comply with Child-care Licensing Law and Rules, at the report to the state on Jun 15, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

12 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.

Jun 15, 2026: report to the state5 deficiencies

  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “A relative was left in charge of the operation and responsible for children without a current eligible background check.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 15, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

  • Comply with Child-care Licensing Law and Rules

    “The primary caregiver left an unqualified individual in charge of the children while away from the licensed child-care home.”

    Rule 747.207(9). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 15, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications for Substitute Caregiver

    “The primary caregiver left a relative in charge of the children who does not meet the minimum qualifications required for an assistant caregiver.”

    Rule 747.1209(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications for Substitute Caregiver-pediatric first-aid and pediatric CPR

    “The primary caregiver has left a relative in the home caring for the children without pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR training.”

    Rule 747.1209(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2026.

  • Sign-in and Sign-out Logs Maintained

    “Children’s attendance has not been consistently documented for the months of April, May, and June.”

    Rule 747.635(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 29, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

Jun 15, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records Accessible - to Caregiver

    “During the inspection, the relative left in charge did not know where the children’s records were located for CCR to review.”

    Rule 747.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 29, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

Aug 22, 2024: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Special topics for children under 24 months

    “The primary caregiver is missing training hours in topics for children under 24 months”

    Rule 747.1309(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 23, 2024.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “There is a broken fence with nails sticking from it from the backyard play area. There are nails sticking from the posts in the backyard.”

    Rule 747.3501. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2024.

  • Must Have at Least One 3A-40BC Dry Chemical Fire Extinguisher or Fire Extinguisher Approved by Fire Marshal

    “The present fire extinguisher is a 2-A:10-B-C extinguisher”

    Rule 747.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Three of the children’s files had a parent as the emergency contact. One of the children’s files was missing an emergency contact address.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two of the student files are missing updated immunization records.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 15, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Date of Admission

    “Two of the children’s files were missing the date of admission.”

    Rule 747.605(3). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 6, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “During review of record keeping 1 out of 4 records evaluated did not include medical emergency authorization.”

    Rule 747.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “During review or record keeping 2 out of 4 records evaulated did have emergency contact infromation.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “During review of records 2 out of 4 records evaluated did not have a signed health statement as required.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 20, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

Sep 7, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “During review of the home’s operational policies it was found to have not included Promotion of Physical Activity. This was corrected when the director updated the home’s policies.”

    Rule 747.501(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 7, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 15, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 15, 2026Report to the state5 deficiencies cited
Jun 12, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Sep 6, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 7, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Sep 28, 2017.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 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.
  • 2 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 12.
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
Childrens Cottage Infant Center11
Advent’s Beloved Children Abc Learning Center3
Laugh N’ Discover Early Learning Center3
The New Day School4
Little Hands Day Care This child care provider12
Small World Learning Academy5
Kce Champions LLC @ Kipp Nexus9
The Nest of Grace Childcare16
The Learning Express Houston8
Gethsemane Lutheran Mdo1
Maria Granados9
St Ambrose Early Childhood Center3

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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