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The Gifted Minds

A licensed child care center in Dallas, Texas 75237

2550 W Red Bird Ln Ste 412, Dallas, Texas 75237. (214) 550-0699.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: Medium 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 13, 2025: 3 deficiencies cited.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

7 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Nov 13, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Director Annual Training - Caring for children under 24 months

    “During the monitoring visit, I was not able to review the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma or understanding early childhood brain development for the director.”

    Rule 746.1311(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “During the monitoring visit, the caregiver had 13 hours of training completed of the required twenty-four annual hours. The caregiver was missing the following training: child maltreatment, shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma, and understanding early childhood brain development, as well as additional trainings of their choice to meet the 24 hours of required training.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

  • Director Annual Training -Required 1 hour in prevention, recognition and reporting of child maltreatment

    “During the monitoring visit, I was not able to review the child maltreatment training certificate for the director.”

    Rule 746.1311(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

Dec 19, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “The director and caregiver provided CPR certificates for an on line course.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

  • Complying with Laws and Rules

    “The operation is deficient with the standard as the operation violates Texas Administrative Code 745.8605(2). The operation falsified the Dallas County Health inspection report from 2019.”

    Rule 746.201(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 21, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2025.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation did not have an annual sanitation inspection report available for review during the monitoring visit. The annual sanitation inspection that was presented was not a current inspection form.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “The caregiver did not have the required trainings for this specific area during the monitoring visit.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 15, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “of the 4 children records evaluated 2 did not have health statement”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 24, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2023.

Apr 5, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - 24 Annual Training

    “Three out of six caregivers did not have the required annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 8, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 7, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Three out of six children records reviewed were missing emergency contact address.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 8, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 7, 2022.

All 5 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 13, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Dec 19, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Feb 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 15, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 5, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 24, 2019.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 62 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 7.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kims Palace Home Day Care4
A+ Highpointe Academy14
Childrens Genesis10
The Ivy League Child Development Center & Outreach, Inc.20
The Gifted Minds This child care provider7
Kings & Queens to Be Learning Center38
Golden Eagle Program19
A Missionary Cogic Learning Center22
Kce Champions LLC @ Idea A.w. Brown11
Vogel Redbird Childcare Center3
Mary Rush Children’s College at Iboc9
Wanda Meshack Smith Head Start7

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 2, 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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