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Powerhouse Oak Cliff

A licensed child care center in Dallas, Texas 75224

4400 S R L Thornton Fwy, Dallas, Texas 75224. (469) 505-7688.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 21, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

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 Apr 22, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 21, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees - Orientation

    “Caregiver didn’t have any orientation training.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 23, 2026.

  • Operation and Program Director Annual Training 20 Hours Required

    “Program director didn’t have any annual traning.”

    Rule 744.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 23, 2026.

Apr 22, 2024: 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

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and was found to be deficient. A caregiver was found to not provide supervision that ensured each child’s safety.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 30, 2024.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Exceed One Hour Daily

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and was found to be deficient. Children have been exceeding an hour of screen time.”

    Rule 744.2007(b)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2024. Correction verified: May 30, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 31, 2022: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “At the time of the inspection, a caregiver was observed telling a child, “If you touch somebody else, I’m going to touch you.””

    Rule 744.2105(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “At the time of the inspection, a caregiver was observed yelling at children.”

    Rule 744.2105(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Children’s Names and Ages

    “At the time of the inspection, a caregiver was observed telling children she forgot their names and was asking the children for a reminder.”

    Rule 744.1203(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Children in Control

    “At the time of the inspection, children were not responding to the directions given by the caregivers. Children were also yelling and hitting each other.”

    Rule 744.1203(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Foster Cooperative Atmosphere

    “At the time of the inspection, a caregiver was observed using the “Quiet Game” as an activity. The game lasted for a total of 4 minutes.”

    Rule 744.1203(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Redirecting Behavior

    “At the time of the inspection, a caregiver was observed to be using statements such as, “You’re working my nerves,” and “You’re being aggravating” to redirect children.”

    Rule 744.2103(b)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 21, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 1, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Feb 12, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 31, 2022Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Aug 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 28, 2023.
  • Licensed for ages: School.
  • Capacity: 119 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 2 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 31, 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 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Es Haven Academy10
Annette’s Day Care Center Too!2
Ernies Day Home2
Tiny 1’s Treasured Learning Center3
Marysol Villanueva14
Mothers Touch Childcare0
The Parent Helper Daycare & Learning Center26
A Special Love Childcare Academy Learning Center0
Boss Kidz Learning Center and Company0
Powerhouse Oak Cliff This child care provider4
Casa De Paz Montessori2
Metropolitan Christian Academy3

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 2, 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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