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The Playhouse Academy

A licensed child care center in Fort Worth, Texas 76109

4900 Briarhaven Rd, Fort Worth, Texas 76109. (817) 923-2500.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 8, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Mar 23, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the inspection on Sep 18, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

3 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.

Mar 23, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “During the facility walkthrough, I observed that the classrooms have a Swiffer Wet Jet mop and cleaning solutions. The director removed all the mops during the walkthrough and placed them in the staff break room.”

    Rule 746.3407(12). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 23, 2026.

Sep 18, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “Two caregivers observed present with children did not have cleared background checks at time of inspection. Two caregivers without submitted background checks were sent home at time of inspection.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 1, 2025.

May 7, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “One child’s allergy plan was not signed by the parent.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 10, 2024. Correction verified: May 10, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 7, 2021: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation does not have a current health inspection.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 5, 2022.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “Two children did not have allergy plans that were not signed by parent or physician.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2022.

  • Documentation of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation does not have a current gas pipe leak inspection.”

    Rule 746.5405. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 23, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 16, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 23, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 7, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 1, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 7, 2021Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 7, 2018.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 164 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 3.
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
Camp Fire First Texas at Westcliff2
Arborlawn Children’s Academy4
Bradleys School Care at St Andrew4
Kinderplatz of Fine Arts Dcc2
Trail Lake Montessori Preschool6
Mi Casita20
The Playhouse Academy This child care provider3
Kinder Kids Early Education Center1
Natasha HuntNot given
Bgcgtc - Tanglewood0
Bgcgtc - Alice Carlson0
Camp Fire at Overton Park0

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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