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Handprints Child Care 21 LLC

A licensed child care center in Kaufman, Texas 75142

900 W Grove St, Kaufman, Texas 75142. (972) 932-7049.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 83 child care providers in Kaufman County had 1.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 16, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

3 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.

Feb 5, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Provide care consistent with child’s habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs

    “This standard was tasked as part of the investigation and found to be deficient. A child who is a known runner was able to run toward and fall through the fence on the playground and escape.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2026.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “This deficiency was tasked as part of an investigation and found to be deficient. The fence on the playground had damages which caused a child to fall through and escape without injuries.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 31, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 31, 2026.

Mar 6, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • AP Parental Communication - Injury Requires Treatment by Health Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “This standard was tasked over for this investigation conducted by DFPS and found to be deficient. Following this investigation, it was determined that caregiver(s) did not notify that parents of the accident and/or injury in a timely manner. Parents were not notified of the child’s discomfort until the afternoon, and the child was showing signs of discomfort throughout the day.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2025. Correction verified: May 7, 2025.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 27, 2023: 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

    “This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and was found to be deficient. The caregiver did not have auditory or visual awareness of 2 children when they were allowed to return into the building alone.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2023.

Oct 28, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “None of the cots or cribs were labeled.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2022.

Oct 26, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Corrections Made to Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation recieved a minor citation on their sanitation inspection conducted on 9/28/2022 for kitchen staff not having food handlers certification. The kitchen staff still has not completed a food handers certification course.”

    Rule 746.3405. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 31, 2022.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Brief Supervised Separation

    “The amount of time the children sit in time out at the operation is not consistent with the ages of the children in care.”

    Rule 746.2803(4)(D). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2022.

Sep 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “5 caregivers had affidavits that were not notarized.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 20, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2022.

May 27, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age

    “Two children were sitting in restrictive devices while inside of the crib, causing the crib to not be bare of anything other than the child. This was corrected when the caregivers removed the restrictive devices from inside of the crib.”

    Rule 746.2415(b). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2022.

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “Two children were observed sleeping in restrictive devices. This was corrected when the children were removed from the restrictive device and placed in the crib.”

    Rule 746.2426. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2022.

All 22 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 31, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 31, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 5, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 8, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 27, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 28, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 26, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 27, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 19, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 16, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 224 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.
  • 7 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 83 child care providers in Kaufman County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 83 in Kaufman County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Promiseland Learning Center8
Rosemary Ann Lemanski3
Handprints Child Care 21 LLC This child care provider3
Laquena SmithNot given
Sonshine School2
Little Britches7
Sonya Ward0
Eangee Anderson1
Janel LappNot given
Einsteins Daycare and Preschool3
Smart Start Montessori School12
April Hicks10

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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