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Pat Carney Armed Services YMCA

A licensed child care center in Killeen, Texas 76549

5501 Azura Way, Killeen, Texas 76549. (254) 690-9622.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 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 237 child care providers in Bell County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 4, 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 inspection on Apr 18, 2024

Source:

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 Dec 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.
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.

Dec 18, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Determining Child/Caregiver Ratios - Basis

    “A caregiver was observed alone with a group of children exceeding the classroom total for the youngest child in the group. this was corrected when a second caregiver returned to the room.”

    Rule 744.1507(1). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 4, 2026.

Apr 18, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

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

    “During the inspection, children were observed leaving the cafeteria and going to the restroom without caregiver supervision. This was corrected during the inspection when the children returned to the cafeteria and the caregivers were notified that children need to be supervised when they leave the cafeteria.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2024. Correction verified: May 1, 2024.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio

    “Two groups of children were left out of ratio when a caregiver left the cafeteria to let parents into the building, leaving one caregiver in charge of both groups. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregivers were notified that they both needed to be in the cafeteria as they were both counted in ratio.”

    Rule 744.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics in Health and Safety

    “Out of two staff files reviewed, one did not have training in communicable diseases, emergency preparedness, preventing food allergy reactions, understanding building and physical premises safety, and handling hazardous materials.”

    Rule 744.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2024. Correction verified: May 24, 2024.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Out of the ten children’s records reviewed, three were missing a date of admission and two children with diagnosed food allergies did not have allergy emergency plans on file.”

    Rule 744.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: May 1, 2024.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Out of the two staff files reviewed, one did not have proof of education on file and one did not have statements that she had received copies of the operational and personnel policies.”

    Rule 744.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: May 24, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 24, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Training in Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing and Choking.

    “Out of four personnel files read, three caregivers did not have current certification in First Aid and CPR.”

    Rule 744.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2022.

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

    “Out of ten children’s files read, two children had diagnosed food allergies and no food allergy plan on file.”

    Rule 744.2669. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Out of four personnel files read, two caregivers did not have education qualifications on file (HS diploma or equivalent).”

    Rule 744.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 18, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
May 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 24, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 5, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 5, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 102 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.
  • 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 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 237 child care providers in Bell County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
Source:

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

12 of the 237 in Bell County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Pat Carney Armed Services YMCA This child care provider6
Maria Burgos4
Tiny Troops Learning Center4
A Heart for the Children0
Theresas Creative Minds6
Carmen Y Benitez Rivera2
Just for Tots #428
Asymca @ Dr. Joseph A. Fowler8
2y Smart Kids Care, LLC33
Doris West4
Anita Delores Smith1
Sandra Lee Powell9
Pershing Park YMCA0

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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