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Tender Steps Daycare & Preschool

A licensed child care center in Midland, Texas 79707

2215 N Midland Dr Ste 4a, Midland, Texas 79707. (832) 335-7805.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 91 child care providers in Midland County had 2.

19 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 29, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Nov 7, 2025

Rated High by Texas: AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity, at the inspection on Jun 11, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

3 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.

Nov 7, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “Operation does not have a current fire inspection. Last inspection done was 8/21/2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “3 caregivers did not have the required 24 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

Jun 11, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity

    “There were 59 children in care. Over capacity by 2. Corrected at inspection when 2 children were picked up.”

    Rule 746.201(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 11, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 21, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
May 9, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “While a caregiver was changing another child’s diaper and her back was turned from the other children in care, a child scratched another child several times.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

Jan 3, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Free of other activities

    “A caregiver was answering a call on her personal phone in the nap room.”

    Rule 746.1203(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2023.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “3 children did not have updated immunization records available for review.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2023.

May 9, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “A caregiver did not wash her hands after changing a child’s diaper. Corrected at inspection when the caregiver washed her hands.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2022.

Mar 18, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operation has not included the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity in the operational policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2022.

All 26 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 29, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Jun 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 3, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 7, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 3, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 19, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 11, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 6, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 18, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 11, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 16, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 28, 2022.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 112 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.
  • 7 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 91 child care providers in Midland County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 91 in Midland County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Janet RhoadsNot given
Tender Steps Daycare & Preschool This child care provider3
Kabets Bilingual Childcare1
YMCA Greathouse1
YMCA Scharbauer0
YMCA Fasken0
YMCA Rusk0
YMCA Bush0
YMCA Parker1
Melanie YanezNot given
YMCA Northwest1
Blessing Chinonso NwachukwuNot 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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