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YMCA at Walnut Creek Elementary

A licensed child care center in Azle, Texas 76020

500 Stribling Dr, Azle, Texas 76020. (817) 335-9622.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 920 child care providers in Tarrant County had 3.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on May 6, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

1 deficiency by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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.

Mar 4, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation could not provide documentation showing a fire drill had been completed for January and February of 2026.”

    Rule 744.3559(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2026.

13 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 20, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated in this investigation and was found to not be in compliance. Operation did not report an allegation where a child may have been placed at risk timely.”

    Rule 744.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 18, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 25, 2023.

Jun 20, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “One caregiver without a cleared background check had access to children.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 27, 2023.

  • Field Trips-Food Allergy Emergency Plan and Allergy Medications

    “Two children with a diagnosed food allergy did not have food allergy emergency plan. This was corrected at inspection when the food allergy plan was received for one child, and the admission form for the second child was updated to remove that the child has a food allergy after receiving email verification from the parent.”

    Rule 744.2301(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2023.

Jun 7, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Field Trips-Food Allergy Emergency Plan and Allergy Medications

    “One child attending field trip with a diagnosed food allergy on enrollment form did not have a food allergy emergency plan. One child with a diagnosed food allergy did not have medication required on food allergy emergency plan.”

    Rule 744.2301(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2023.

  • Field Trips - Notification to Parents

    “There was no posting regaring the field trip.”

    Rule 744.2303. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2023.

Apr 24, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “Operation did not have a notarized affidavit for one employee.”

    Rule 744.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 25, 2023.

Jan 23, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Designating Director

    “The operation has not had a designated Program Director for at least two months.”

    Rule 744.201(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2023.

Jan 6, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “One caregiver did not have affidavit on file.”

    Rule 744.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2023.

Nov 15, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Complying with Laws and Rules

    “Based on the deficiencies found this inspection, the governing body has failed to ensure compliance with the Child Care Licensing law found in Chapter 42 of the Human Resources Code, Minimum Standard Rules for a Before and After School Program, and the rules under the Texas Administartive Code.”

    Rule 744.201(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2022.

  • Report Change in Director

    “The governing body has not notified Child Care Regulation in a change in the Program Director.”

    Rule 744.303(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2022.

  • Report Change in Controlling Person

    “The governing body failed to notify Child Care Regulation in a change in controlling persons.”

    Rule 744.305(a)(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2022.

  • Posting Requirements-License

    “The operation’s Initial Permit was not posted.”

    Rule 744.401(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2022.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “The site, program director and staff are not signing in at the site location to show hours worked or present at the location.”

    Rule 744.801(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2022.

All 19 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 20, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 7, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 24, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Apr 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 23, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 6, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 15, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Aug 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 10, 2023.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 80 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.
  • 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 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 920 child care providers in Tarrant County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 1.
Source:

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

11 of the 920 in Tarrant County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kountry Kare Learning Center0
Young Sprouts Creative Learning Center7
Young Sprouts Creative Learning Center Azle North5
YMCA at Walnut Creek Elementary This child care provider1
YMCA Liberty Elementary7
Azle Isd Childcare Center3
Pauline Cronk1
YMCA at Hoover Elementary0
YMCA at Azle Elementary0
Saint Timothy Cumberland7
Ridglea Hills-Westside YMCA0
Jami Robertson11

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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