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Doris Miller Community Center

A licensed child care center in Waco, Texas 76704

1020 Elm Ave, Waco, Texas 76704. (254) 750-8684.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 16 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

16 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 132 child care providers in McLennan County had 6.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 4, 2026: 5 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the inspection on Aug 4, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit, at the inspection on Sep 25, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans, at the inspection on Dec 3, 2024

2 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

16 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

16 deficiencies 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 4, 2026: inspection5 deficiencies
  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “One of the volunteers present did not have a background check. This was corrected during the inspection when the volunteer was sent home.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees - 15 clock hours Annual Training for Caregivers & Site Directors

    “Out of the eight files reviewed, five staff were missing training in some of the required annual training topics.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 18, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 20, 2026.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “The computer lab, arts and crafts room, and gym did not have evacuation diagrams posted.”

    Rule 744.3561(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

  • AP Required Admission Information - Child able to swim competently

    “The eight admission forms reviewed did not have information on whether or not each child was able to swim competently or had any conditions that would require them to be provided with a life jacket.”

    Rule 744.605(16)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 28, 2026.

  • Notification of Change in Space

    “The operation had started using a cafeteria in a second building on the property and also stopped using the two upstairs rooms without notifying Child Care Regulation. This was corrected during the inspection when Child Care Regulation was notified of the changes in the operation’s space and the new space was measured.”

    Rule 744.301(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026.

Sep 25, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “The first aid kits in two of the vans were missing scissors. This was corrected during the inspection when scissors were added to the first aid kits.”

    Rule 744.3817(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2025.

  • Notification of Addition of Swimming Pool

    “The operation did not notify Child Care Regulation when the community center swimming pool was finished and the children in care started using it. This was corrected during the inspection when the director notified CCR that they had started using the swimming pool.”

    Rule 744.301(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2025.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Monthly Maintenance Checklist

    “The last playground checklist was completed in July 2025.”

    Rule 744.3113(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2025.

Dec 3, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies
  • Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans

    “The parent handbook was missing an emergency preparedness plan.”

    Rule 744.501(21). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2024.

  • Training Requirements for Employees - Pre-Service

    “One caregiver’s pre-service training was not in the topics required.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2025.

  • Training Requirements for Employees - 15 clock hours Annual Training for Caregivers & Site Directors

    “One caregiver was missing 2.5 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Out of eight children’s files reviewed, all of them were missing permission to walk or ride a bus from school and one was missing a statement from the parents that immunizations and hearing/vision screening results were on file with their school.”

    Rule 744.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Out of four staff files reviewed, one was missing proof of education, one was missing a notarized employment affidavit, one was missing proof of a background check request, one was missing a photo ID, and one was missing a statement that he attended orientation with an overview of the operation’s abuse and neglect policy.”

    Rule 744.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 29, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 28, 2025.

Jan 4, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “Two of the three vehicles that the operation uses for transportation did not have a fire extinguisher, and the needle on the fire extinguisher in the third vehicle was in the red.”

    Rule 744.3817(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 11, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2024.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “One of the three vehicles that the operation uses for transportation did not have a first aid kit in it. This was corrected at inspection when the director placed a first aid kit in the vehicle.”

    Rule 744.3817(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2024.

  • Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Training in Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing and Choking.

    “One caregiver had expired first aid and CPR training.”

    Rule 744.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 14, 2022: report to the state3 deficiencies
  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “Based on the information gathered during the investigation it was determined that the operation vehicle was involved in a accident and one child received an injury that was evaluated by a medical profession. This was corrected during the inspection by explaining to the director the reasons and how to report injuries/incidents to licensing.”

    Rule 744.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2022.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “Based on the information gathered during the inspection it was found that parents of the children involved in vehicle accident did not received a signed copy of a incident report.”

    Rule 744.707. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2022.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Injuries Requiring Medical Treatment or Hospitalization

    “During the inspection the incident reports for children involved in an vehicle accident was not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 744.701(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 4, 2026Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Sep 25, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Dec 3, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Jan 4, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 12, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 14, 2022Report to the state3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 28, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: School.
  • Capacity: 153 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 Oct 30, 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 132 child care providers in McLennan County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 16.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 132 in McLennan County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Doris Miller Community Center This child care provider16
Faith Academy Child Care42
Hines YMCA of Central Texas1
Mentoring Alliance-Rapoport Primary0
Ms Idas Child Care Center37
Kids Are People Too Daycare10
Future Minds21
Country Child Care0
Little Rockets2
Waco Child Development Center14
Waco Child Development Infant5
Marla Adams0

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 30, 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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