Terri Williams

A registered child care home in Santa Fe, Texas 77510

13229 9th St, Santa Fe, Texas 77510. (409) 770-4664.

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The short answer

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

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Galveston County: 5
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
5 inspections on record
4-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025. 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 127 child care providers in Galveston County had 5.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 9, 2026: no violation found.

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 Apr 11, 2024

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

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

Apr 9, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

Written Operational Policies - Safe Sleep for Infants

“During inspection, operational policy did not discuss safe sleep for infants in care.”

Rule 747.501(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 16, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.
Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website

“During inspection, operational policies did not state how parents can access Minimum Standards online, how to reach Texas Abuse and Neglect Hotline and HHSC website.”

Rule 747.501(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 16, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.
Written Operational Policies - Animals

“During inspection, operational policies did not state there is a dog in the home.”

Rule 747.501(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 16, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.
Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

“During inspection, Parents Rights were not observed in Operational Policies.”

Rule 747.501(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 16, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.

Apr 11, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

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

“A substitute caregiver was present in the caregivers absence without background check eligibility results. The subsitite stated this was their second week assisting the primary caregiver at the operation.”

Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2024.
Minimum Qualifications for Substitute Caregiver

“The substitute caregiver did not meet all of the requirements prior to being counted in ratio or being left alone with the children in the Primary Caregivers absence. The substitute caregiver was missing the following: - Personnel file - Background Check - Orientation - First Aid and CPR certification.”

Rule 747.1209(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years

Apr 11, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plan

“During inspection, operational policies did not stated the new location and address in case of evacuation.”

Rule 747.501(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2023.
Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver -30 Hours Annual Training

“During inspection, primary caregiver completed 21 hours of annual training in 2021 and 0 training in 2022.”

Rule 747.1303(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2023.
Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

“During inspection, operational policies did not discuss the promotion of physical activity indoor and outdoor.”

Rule 747.501(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2023.

Mar 30, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

Children’s Products- Posting of CPSC website

“The CPSC form was not signed. This was corrected at inspection when the website was reviewed and form signed.”

Rule 747.3935(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 30, 2022.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“One immunization record was missing from the child’s file. This was corrected at inspection when the form was received, printed, and placed in the file.”

Rule 747.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 30, 2022.

All 5 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Apr 9, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Apr 9, 2025	Inspection	4 deficiencies cited
Apr 11, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Apr 11, 2023	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Mar 30, 2022	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Apr 1, 2021.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 12 children.

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.
0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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).

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 127 child care providers in Galveston County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 6.

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

11 of the 127 in Galveston County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Brainy Kids Place, LLC	4
Wee Care Mothers Day Out At1st Baptist Church of Alta Loma	1
Jenny Mcginnes	Not given
Polly World Inc. First Step Daycare	5
Creative Explorers: Kubacak	0
Creative Explorers: Barnett	0
Terri Williams This child care provider	6
Childworks	22
Kimberly Ford	1
Tracy Geesing	Not given
Growing With Wonder Academy	0
Hmt Investments Inc. DBA Kids and Company	3

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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