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Met Early Head Start Waller County

A licensed child care center in Hempstead, Texas 77445

1127 Ennis St, Hempstead, Texas 77445. (979) 350-2508.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 30 child care providers in Waller County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 7, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device, at the inspection on Aug 22, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 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.

Jan 21, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation did not report to CCR the number of employees who left in 2025 before January 15, 2026.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

Mar 28, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Designating Director

    “The operation has not designated a qualified director.”

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

Aug 22, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “Two infants was observed sleeping in a restrictive device. Note: This was corrected when the caregiver removed the infants from the restrictive device and placed them in a crib.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 22, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2024.

  • Report Change in Director

    “The operation failed to notify CCR that the director at the operation changed. The operation does not have a qualified director designated.”

    Rule 746.303(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 11, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “Two out of the six children’s records are missing the physicians’ signature of the health care statement.”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 15, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2023.

Jun 15, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 21, 2023.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Aug 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Sep 9, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 11, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 15, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 30, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 22, 2018.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 59 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 30 child care providers in Waller County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 30 in Waller County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Gwendolyn Johnson0
The Learning Tree8
Met Early Head Start Waller County This child care provider4
Met/Headstart (Waller County)0
Abc Kids Fun 2 Learn Center0
Maria Esperanza Torres1
Roosevelt Whitt Learning Center2
Busy B’s Child Development Center5
Kce Champions LLC @ H.t. Jones Elementary0
Childrens Learning Center Too5
YMCA Afterschool@bryant Elementary4
Taylor’s Playhouse2

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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An example nursing home

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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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