Hearth Record

The Dora O. Martinez Early Childhood Development Center

A licensed child care center in Zapata, Texas 78076

708 Delmar St, Zapata, Texas 78076. (956) 750-3325.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. Texas’s own record is on its child care search.

The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

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

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 7 child care providers in Zapata County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 17, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 17, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent

    “The center has two infant classrooms. Daily reports were not available for review in one classroom.”

    Rule 746.2431. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 18, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2026.

Dec 18, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child

    “A child was served an identified food allergen at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3301(i). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2026.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 14, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “A caregiver/teacher did not have a current CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 20, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 20, 2023.

Oct 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Background Check Validation - You must inactivate a subject who is no longer associated with your operation within 7 days of leaving

    “A former employee’s background check was not inactivated within the required timeframe.”

    Rule 745.651(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 20, 2022.

Apr 19, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “There was no current fire inspection. The last fire inspection was conducted on 1/29/21.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Six infants did not have a current Written Feeding Instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

  • Infant Daily Report - Infant’s Mood

    “The Infant Daily Report was missing the following information: Infant’s Mood and Summary of Activities.”

    Rule 746.2431(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 13, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 17, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 19, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 14, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 19, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 25, 2021.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 64 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 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 27, 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 7 child care providers in Zapata County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

6 of the 7 in Zapata County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Great Beginnings Child Care and Learning Center8
Little Angels Learning Center6
The Dora O. Martinez Early Childhood Development Center This child care provider2
Avance Zapata Early Head Start Center1
Avance Fidel & Andrea Villarreal Elementary1
Avance Zapata South Elementary2
Little Angels Learning Center #27

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Texas HHSC or Texas Workforce Commission. Texas’s own record is on its child care search. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 27, 2026.

From the provider

The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.

Replies

None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.

Paid listing

None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.

How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

1 of 4

Every fact names its source.

Who published it, when, and how often it changes sit beside each fact, with a link to the agency’s own file.

Sign in

A free account keeps your watch list, shortlists, comparisons and saved searches on every device, and can email you when something you watch changes. Browsing never needs one.