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A licensed child care center in Dimmitt, Texas 79027

704 W Stinson St, Dimmitt, Texas 79027. (806) 647-4425.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2024. 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 4 child care providers in Castro County had 1.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 20, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Aug 22, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

1 deficiency 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 22, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “One of the caregivers present at the operation does not have an active background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 22, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 28, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 4, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records

    “4 out of 6 employee records reviewed was missing the following information: Employee hire date, Age and Education verification, Affidavit of Employment, statement signed and dated by the employee showing he/she has received a copy of the child-care center s Operational policies and Personnel policies, Criminal History Eligibility letter, Photo ID, required trainings, and a statement signed and dated by the employee verifying the date the employee attended training during orientation.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

Nov 29, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Keep Records for 3 Months

    “It was found during the inspection the operation did not have documented checklist for that last three months. The last check listed on filed dated in January 2022. This was corrected at the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4751(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2022.

Jan 10, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

    “1 out of 8 records reviewed was missing the SID and Shaken Baby annual training.”

    Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 4, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 29, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 10, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 1, 2019.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 80 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 4 child care providers in Castro County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 1.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

3 of the 4 in Castro County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
First Steps This child care provider1
Hearts and Hands1
First Baptist Dimmitt Preschool & Daycare0
The Hart Isd Daycare Program9

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 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

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