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Ruby Phenix Early Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Lubbock, Texas 79403

1301 Vanda Ave, Lubbock, Texas 79403. (806) 765-0110.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 149 child care providers in Lubbock County had 1.

21 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 2, 2025: 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 Jul 29, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Nov 6, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 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.

Jul 29, 2025: 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

    “It was found during the investigation that a child was left inside of a classroom unsupervised while in care.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 28, 2025.

Nov 6, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “It was found during the investigation that an employee used inappropriate discipline on a child in care by grabbing and pulling on a child.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 16, 2024.

May 21, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Based on the evidence obtained during an investigation, an employee placed their personal drink within reach of a child resulting in the child consuming an unknown amount of the drink.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 3, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2024.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “Based on the evidence obtained during an investigation, a written incident report was not completed as required when a serious incident occurred that resulted in a child consuming an unknown amount of a caregivers? personal drink.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 3, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 16, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “It was found during the inspection the operation allowed an individual to have access to the children in care before receiving notice from CBCU regarding the person’s eligibility. This was corrected during the inspection by sending the caregiver home.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2023.

Oct 13, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Administering Medication - According to Label Directions

    “It was found during the investigation that a caregiver did not follow written dosage instructions when administering medication to a child.”

    Rule 746.3805(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2023.

  • Medication Authorization - Signed and Dated

    “It was found during the investigation that a parent did not sign or date their child?s medication authorization form prior to medication being administered to the child.”

    Rule 746.3803(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2023.

Aug 10, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “It was found during the investigation that an employee used inappropriate discipline on a child in care by pushing the child.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2023.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Brief Supervised Separation

    “It was found during the investigation a child was observed to be in time-out longer than the allotted time for the childs age.”

    Rule 746.2803(4)(D). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2023.

Mar 28, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “During the inspection a child was observed acessing a trash can that had trash in it. This was corrected during the inspection when the director removed the trash can from the room and replaced it with a trashcan that had a lid on it.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 28, 2023.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “During the inspection 2 pair of sharp scissors were observed on a table that was accessible to a walking infant. This was corrected during the inspection when a caregiver placed both pair of scissors in a place inaccessible to the children in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 28, 2023.

Jul 21, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A stump from a tree left was projecting from the ground causing a tripping hazard on the 0-2 yer old’s playground. This was corrected during the inspection when the director placed a sandtable over the stump.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2022.

All 29 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 29, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 7, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
May 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 6, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 1, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 21, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 16, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 13, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Mar 28, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 21, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 28, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 158 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.
  • 8 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 149 child care providers in Lubbock County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 149 in Lubbock County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Precious Steps0
Texas Tech University Center for Early Head Start2
Nana’s Home Daycare0
Roneshia Patterson6
Roosevelt Isd Child Care Center22
Ruby Phenix Early Learning Center This child care provider4
My Little Playhouse 23
Ywcare of Lubbock at Maedgen0
Ywcare of Lubbock at Wilson1
Shirley Yandell0
Vicki Mceachern0
Ywcare at Honey Elementary0

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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