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Safe Steps Home Daycare

A licensed child care home in New Braunfels, Texas 78130

2813 Ridge Berry Rd, New Braunfels, Texas 78130. (510) 410-7010.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium. 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 82 child care providers in Guadalupe County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 22, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

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

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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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 22, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

    “Upon arrival, the television was on during naptime. This was corrected when the tv was turned off during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.2105(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2026.

Feb 5, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Parent right to review video recordings of alleged incident of abuse or neglect involving parent child

    “The parent right to review video was not available for review in the operational policy.”

    Rule 747.521(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 5, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 13, 2025.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 9, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “The last time the fire extinguisher was serviced was in September 2021.”

    Rule 747.5107(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 9, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 9, 2023.

Nov 23, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Sanitation of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There was a long nail sticking out of an area on the plastic playscape located outside that was eye level with the children that posed a hazard. This was CORRECTED when the nail was removed by the provider.”

    Rule 747.3203. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 23, 2021.

  • Medication No Longer Used

    “Two types of medication was found to be expired. This was CORRECTED when the provider informed the parent for it to be returned.”

    Rule 747.3609. Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 23, 2021.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 22, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 5, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 9, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 23, 2021Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Mar 2, 2022.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 82 child care providers in Guadalupe County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 82 in Guadalupe County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Blue Bird Kids Academy9
Michelle CalderaNot given
Melissa BustosNot given
Imagine That0
Babys First Daycare9
Clear Springs Academy2
Safe Steps Home Daycare This child care provider2
Stacy Ysaguirre20
Carmen Arreguin1
Rebecca Elizabeth Erben1
Selena Lasater6
Y School Age @ Voss Farms Elementary2

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 Oct 30, 2026.

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Replies

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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.

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