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Northwest YMCA Copper Creek Elementary

A licensed child care center in Fort Worth, Texas 76131

8801 Copper Meadow Dr, Fort Worth, Texas 76131. (817) 335-9622.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 920 child care providers in Tarrant County had 3.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 27, 2026: no violation found.

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 24, 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 inspection on May 7, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

5 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.

Oct 24, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A child was left on the playground unattended for 4 minutes.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “An incident report was not shared with parents within 48 hours of the incident occurring.”

    Rule 744.707. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

May 7, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “The children are left unsupervised in the cafeteria while caregiver attends to parents outside of threshold. Caregivers are also unsure of number of children they have in order to supervise.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2025. Correction verified: May 16, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio

    “There were 44 children present with 1 caregiver. Exceeding the max ratio of 26 children.”

    Rule 744.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2025. Correction verified: May 16, 2025.

  • Food Service and Preparation Requirement - Safe and Sanitary

    “A child was observed preparing snack for other children without washing hands after touching cleaning supplies.”

    Rule 744.2419. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2025. Correction verified: May 16, 2025.

10 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 17, 2023: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “A caregiver was not able to identify a child who has special needs.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Complying with Laws and Rules

    “Program is not complying with rules and laws, several observations during the inspection did not comply with the minimum standard.”

    Rule 744.201(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Food Allergy Plan-Emergency plan for diagnosed child, signed by health care professional and parent

    “The program did not have an Emergency Plan for a child with a food allergy.”

    Rule 744.2669. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Report Change in Director

    “The program did not report a change on site director.”

    Rule 744.303(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 24, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2023.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “Emergency Practices were not documented.”

    Rule 744.3559(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 21, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Posting Requirements- Letter or form from the most recent licensing inspection or investigation.

    “The last inspection form posted was from January,2022.”

    Rule 744.401(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 18, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Posting Requirements - Daily Menu, Including All Snacks and Meals Prepared or Served

    “Last menu posted was from May 2023.”

    Rule 744.401(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 18, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

  • Required posting of Emergency Telephone number-Texas Abuse and Neglect Hotline (1-800-252-5400)

    “The document reviewed stated the abuse should be report to management and not the Abuse and Neglect line.”

    Rule 744.405(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 21, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

Feb 13, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Last fire drill was practiced two months ago.”

    Rule 744.3559(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2023.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Monthly Maintenance Checklist

    “The last playground check was done three months ago.”

    Rule 744.3113(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2023.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 27, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 24, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 7, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Aug 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2023Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Feb 13, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 11, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 50 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: 2-Star (the first 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 920 child care providers in Tarrant County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 920 in Tarrant County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little America Daycare18
Alphabest @ Nance Elementary - Northwest14
Mary Ann’s Childcare0
Primrose School of NW Fort Worth9
Timathea Griffith9
The Goddard School of Fort Worth9
Northwest YMCA Copper Creek Elementary This child care provider5
Alphabest @ Berkshire- Northwest10
YMCA Gililland Elementary6
Margie Davis16
YMCA Hatley Elementary13
Arica BusbyNot given

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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