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West Texas A&m Child Development Center

A licensed child care center in Canyon, Texas 79016

2620 N Russell Long Blvd, Canyon, Texas 79016. (806) 651-2974.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 59 child care providers in Randall County had 2.

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 24, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Oct 11, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

9 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 12, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    “Two staff files were reviewed and did not have proof of orientation in file. **This was corrected at inspection when the director provided the form showing completion of orientation.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “Two staff files were reviewed and did not have proof of pre-service in the file at all. **This was corrected at inspection when the director provided the form showing completion for the first 8 hours.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “The safety drills were not available for review for the last previous year for lock-down and severe weather in place and fire drills practiced for the 2025 year. Additionally, there were no drills available for review for January and Februrary 2026. The playground and building checklist were not available for review for the last three months.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 27, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “Two staff files that were reviewed were missing both the required affidavits in the file - the form 2985 and the form 2912 that were recemtly hired.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 27, 2026.

Apr 2, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Documentation of Fire Inspection

    “The most recent fire inspection was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 3, 2025.

Oct 11, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, multiple caregivers, some seated with their backs to majority of the children in care, lacked visual awareness and they were not aware of the ongoing activities of a child in care throwing pieces of a plastic balance beam repeatedly that contributed to another child in care becoming injured.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2024.

May 2, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “A caregiver was observed changing diapers and did not wash their hands after diaper changes.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2024. Correction verified: May 13, 2024.

  • Administering Medication - Original Container with Child’s Name, Date

    “Medication that is related to a food allergy plan was not in the original container with the child’s information and also has expired and requires being disposed and replaced.”

    Rule 746.3805(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2024. Correction verified: May 13, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “Documentation of emergency practices drills, including monthly checks for the fire extinguisher, smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector, was not available for review at inspection.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2024. Correction verified: May 6, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Jun 1, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “The toddler middle classroom was observed during naptime and there was no lighting being used and eyes had to adjust. The caregivers and children were not able to be observed in the classroom until a flashlight was used during the classroom walkthrough.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 9, 2022.

All 22 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 12, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Nov 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 20, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 5, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 2, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 11, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 2, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 5, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 2, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 1, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 24, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 10, 1994.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 85 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.
  • 5 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 59 child care providers in Randall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 59 in Randall County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
West Texas A&m Child Development Center This child care provider9
Pavillard Learning Center8
Kristens Daycare12
Brittany BrannonNot given
Kelly Laster1
Jacqueline Faye GallegosNot given
Debbie Wilhite0
Sunshine Child Care16
Bright Minds Academy at Golden Pond0
Lori Bermea8
Christy BlackmanNot given
Primrose of Amarillo Southwest2

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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