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Young Expression Day Care LLC

A licensed child care center in Waco, Texas 76705

811 Maxfield St, Waco, Texas 76705. (254) 799-7700.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 16 deficiencies in 5 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?

16 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 26, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety, at the inspection on Jun 10, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions, at the inspection on Jun 4, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for, at the inspection on May 29, 2026

3 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

16 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 10, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety

    “A cargiver was observed supervising a child in the bathroom from the doorway of their classroom and would have been unable to intervene without leaving their class unsupervised if the child needed help.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2026.

Jun 8, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “During the inspection, two caregivers had seventeen children with a specified age of three years old, and one of the caregivers stepped out of the classroom to speak with a parent, leaving the class out of ratio. This was corrected during the inspection when the second caregiver returned to the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2026.

Jun 4, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “A staff member with a conditional background check was observed supervising a group of children alone while the main caregiver was in the restroom. This was corrected during the inspection when the main caregiver returned from the restroom.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 4, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 10, 2026.

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “There was an outlet in the afterschool room that did not have a cover. This was corrected during the inspection when an outlet cover was placed in the outlet”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 4, 2026.

May 29, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “A caregiver stated that they had 12 children in their class when they had 13.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2026.

Mar 11, 2026: inspection9 deficiencies
  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “A caregiver did not have background check submitted. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregiver left the operation and the director submitted a background check for them.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026.

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A caregiver who was outside with their class on the playground sent a child inside to use the bathroom alone. This was corrected during the inspection when the director was informed and the child was returned to their class.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children

    “The afterschool room had a bottle of Clorox wipes sitting on a desk within reach of children, and the pre-k room had a bottle of Clorox and a bottle of hand sanitizer sitting on the desk within reach of children. This was corrected during the inspection when the Clorox bottles and hand sanitizer were moved out of reach.”

    Rule 746.3407(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “The director and three caregivers had expired first aid and CPR, and two caregivers did not have proof of first aid and CPR.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 30, 2026.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Other Use of Handwashing Sink

    “A caregiver washed their hands in a sink that had bottles in it and was used for washing bottles.”

    Rule 746.2419(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “A caregiver did not wash their hands after diapering a child. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregiver was reminded about handwashing and the caregiver washed their hands.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “A caregiver did not wash a child’s hands after the child had their diaper changed. This wsa corrected during the inspection when the caregiver was reminded about handwashing and the caregiver washed the child’s hands.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Administering Medication - Original Container with Child’s Name, Date

    “A child had a bottle of Tylenol that did not have the child’s name and the date the parent brought it on it.”

    Rule 746.3805(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 23, 2026.

  • Infant Daily Report - Infant’s Mood

    “Infant caregivers were not adding mood and activities to Brightwheel.”

    Rule 746.2431(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 18, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 30, 2026.

May 6, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Medication No Longer Used

    “One child had an EpiPen that expired in May 2024.”

    Rule 746.3809. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2025. Correction verified: May 9, 2025.

Jan 16, 2025: assessment1 deficiency
  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 data revealed the center did not report the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 16, 2025.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 10, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 8, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 4, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 29, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 26, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2026Inspection9 deficiencies cited
May 6, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 16, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jul 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 10, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 14, 2018.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 80 children.
Source:

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.
  • 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 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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 16.
Source:

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

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 Oct 30, 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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