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Gessner Kiddie Kollege

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77031

8895 W Bellfort St, Houston, Texas 77031. (713) 981-4411.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

18 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 26, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Jun 20, 2025

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 23, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 20, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children

    “During today’s inspection I observed cleaning supplies stored on a shelf in an area accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 3, 2025.

Feb 6, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Photo Identification

    “Two out of four files checked did not have any photo identification. This was corrected when director made a copy of their drivers license and kept a copy on file.”

    Rule 746.901(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2025.

Oct 23, 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

    “A caregiver left an infant alone to get her procare tablet in the office and went back to her room.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 1, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2024.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 18, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Hitting with Hand or Instrument

    “Based on the interview with children and staff, there is enough evidence to validate that prohibited punishment did occured in care.”

    Rule 746.2805(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

Apr 11, 2022: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - Pre-service Training

    “Documentation showing a caregiver completed 16 hours of pre-service training was not available for review during this inspection.”

    Rule 746.1301(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric first aid with rescue breathing

    “Four caregivers were in need of Pediatric first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1301(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and directors - Pediatric CPR

    “Four caregivers needed Pediatric CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1301(4)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

  • Furnishings and Equipment for Toddlers - Bottles & Training Cups Labeled for Each Toddler

    “I observed unlabeled cups in the toddler classroom. Note: This was corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.2505(4)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2022.

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

    “The classrooms did not have a sleeping chart for children in care. Note: This was corrected during inspection. The classrooms created and posted a number/child assignment chart.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Records were evaluated for ten children in care and the following was determined: -Six needed a special needs statement -Three needed emergency contact information such as name, address, and phone number for someone other than the parent/guardian. -Two needed school information -Three needed updated immunization records -One needed a food allergy statement -Two needed a food allergy emergency plan.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 26, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2022.

All 27 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 26, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Feb 19, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 31, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 31, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 28, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 30, 2025Report to the stateOutcome pending
May 19, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 6, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 7, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 18, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 11, 2022Inspection6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 20, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 232 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.
  • 9 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Source:

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
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Ngoc Huyen Truong1
Gessner Kiddie Kollege This child care provider3
Hong Hoa Thi Huynh1
Humaira Tutkhail1
Aum School0
Donna’s Day Care4
Yorkshire Academy4
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School12
Brooke’s Learning Corner4
School in the Pines2
Gloria Dei Early Childhood Program7
Childrens Cottage Infant Center11

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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