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Poka Dots #2 Daycare and Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Laredo, Texas 78045

603 Shiloh Dr, Laredo, Texas 78045. (956) 701-3073.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 128 child care providers in Webb County had 4.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 28, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Dec 19, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

4 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.

Jan 28, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The fire drill was conducted on October 2025.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

  • Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Check All Detectors Monthly

    “Carbon monoxide detector, smoke detector, and fire extinguishers were last inspected on October 2025.”

    Rule 746.5537(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

Dec 19, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “Employee present at the operation did not have an active background check on file. Note: Employee left the operation during inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 2, 2024.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “One caregiver was observed supervising 12 children ranging from ages 12 months to 17 months. Note: By the end of the inspection, there were two caregivers supervising the group of children.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 2, 2024.

15 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 29, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Block fence surrounding the toddler playground is leaning towards the inside of the playground. Fence is not stable. There were 2 cleaning toilet bowl chemical bottles in the cabinets under the sink in two restrooms. Cabinets were not locked. Restrooms are used by children. Note: Chemicals were removed during inspection.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2023.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “Ten children’s files were reviewed. Six children were pending updated immunization records. Note: Four children’s updated immunization records were provided during inspection.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Enrollment

    The inspectors’ words, 97 words

    “Operational policies are pending the following information: enrollment procedures, including how and when parents will be notified of policy changes; promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity; procedures for parents to participate in the child-care center’s operation and activities; procedures for parents to review a copy of the child-care center’s most recent Licensing inspection report and how the parent may access the minimum standards online; instructions on how a parent may contact the local Licensing office, and access the HHSC website; information on vaccine-preventable diseases for employees; and preventing and responding to abuse and neglect of children.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(13). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2023.

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

    “Ten children’s records were reviewed. Six records were pending the health statements.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 16, 2023.

Jun 13, 2022: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “Fire inspection was last conducted on 12/22/2020.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Four infants were in a combined group with 10 additional children over the age 18 months, under the supervision of one caregiver, during opening of the center.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2022.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “Sanitation inspection was last conducted on 01/04/2021.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Fire drills were last conducted on April 2022.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “Fire extinguishers wer last serviced on December 2020.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

  • Smoke-Detection System Tested

    “Smoke alarm was last inspected on 11/17/2020.”

    Rule 746.5315. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

  • Electric or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Install new Battery in Each CO Detector Annually

    “Monthly carbon monoxide tests and monthly fire extinguishers inspections have not been conducted.”

    Rule 746.5537(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

Jun 10, 2022: report to the state3 deficiencies

  • Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

    “Two infants sat on high chairs for longer than 15 minutes, during opening, while waiting for infant caregiver to arrive to the operation.”

    Rule 746.2417(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 29, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2022.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device

    “One toddler was observed to be sitting down on a high chair for longer than 20 minutes as a form of discipline.”

    Rule 746.2805(10). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2022.

  • Operation Open to Parents At All Times

    “A person authorized to pick up a child, by the child’s parent, was not allowed to enter the operation.”

    Rule 746.201(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2022.

Nov 19, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “Ten children records were reviewed. Three records were missing updated immunization records. Note: it was corrected at inspection. Updated immunization records were provided by parents to operation during inspection.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2021.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 28, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 23, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 19, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 29, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jun 30, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 13, 2022Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Jun 10, 2022Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Nov 19, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 7, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 113 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.
  • 1 report 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 128 child care providers in Webb County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 128 in Webb County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Castillito’s Day Care1
Poka Dots Day Care6
Blooming Kids LLC8
Veronica Alvarez Avila0
Little Star6
Sunshine Academy Lcc9
School of Wonder, Inc.2
Little Friends L.c. LLC13
Play and Learn2
Johnson’s Daycare & Learning Center #34
Poka Dots #2 Daycare and Learning Center This child care provider4
Daniela’s Home Daycare1

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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An example nursing home

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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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