Kce Champions LLC @ Iltx-Orem

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77048

5445 E Orem Dr, Houston, Texas 77048. (210) 607-1113.

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The short answer

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

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Harris County: 4
6 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
6 inspections on record
2-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 28, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Apr 30, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the assessment on Nov 8, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the assessment on Oct 11, 2024

3 more rated High; all are listed below.

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

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

15 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

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

Apr 28, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

Annual Sanitation Inspection

“The operations annual sanitation expired 2/22/2026.”

Rule 744.2501(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2026. Correction verified: May 4, 2026.
Documentation of Fire Inspection

“The operation did not have the required documentation of the annual fire inspection.”

Rule 744.3503. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2026. Correction verified: May 4, 2026.
Sheltering Drill for Severe Weather- 4 times in a calendar year

“The operations sheltering drill for severe weather was not completed on the emergency practices sheet.”

Rule 744.3559(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2026. Correction verified: May 4, 2026.

Apr 30, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

“There was no fire inspection available for review during the inspection.”

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 14, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2025.
Annual Sanitation Inspection

“There was no current health inspection available for review during the inspection.”

Rule 744.2501(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 14, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2025.

Nov 8, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

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

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2024.

Oct 11, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

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

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 25, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 8, 2024.

Sep 13, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

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

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2024.

Jul 22, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

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

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 30, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 13, 2024.

May 7, 2024: inspection6 deficiencies

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

“There was no current fire inspection available for review during the inspection. Fire inspection was last observed dated 9/15/2021.”

Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 28, 2024. Correction verified: Jul 22, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Accommodations or modifications

“Six out of six children files reviewed were missing reasonable accomodations and modifications information.”

Rule 744.605(13)(B)(i). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Adaptive equipment and instructions

“Six out of six children files reviwed were missing any adaptive equipment provided for the child, including instructions for how to use the equipment.”

Rule 744.605(13)(B)(ii). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Potential complications

“Six out of six children records reviewed were missing symptoms or indications of potential complications related to a physical, cognitive, or mental condition that may warrant prevention or intervention while the child is in care.”

Rule 744.605(13)(B)(iii). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.
Documentation of Drills

“There was no documentation of shleter drills, lockdown drills, not severe weather drills during the inspection available for review.”

Rule 744.3559(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.
Required Admission Information-Water Activity Permission

“Six out of six children files reviewed were missing water permissions including whether the child can swim without assistance.”

Rule 744.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.

All 10 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Apr 28, 2026	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Apr 30, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Nov 8, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Oct 11, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Sep 13, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Aug 15, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Jul 22, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
May 7, 2024	Inspection	6 deficiencies cited
Aug 14, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Aug 24, 2022	Inspection	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 15, 2019.
Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 70 children.

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.
0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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?

Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).

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 15.

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
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Patricia Neil Smith	Not given
Veronique Roberts	1
Mary’s Little Lamb Learning Center	15
Kce Champions LLC @ Iltx-Orem This child care provider	15
Growth Academy, LLC	2
Darlyne Smith	1
Jacquelina Miller	0
Codwell Elementary School	2
Cheryl Babineaux Richard	15
Helen’s Haven Childcare	14
Tanyika Shantell Gentry	1
Right Fit Kids Academy- Cullen	4

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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