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The Playground Daycare Center

A licensed child care center in Sealy, Texas 77474

1115 Miller Rd, Sealy, Texas 77474. (979) 627-9055.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 13 child care providers in Austin County had 5.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 10, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Feb 10, 2026

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 May 7, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the assessment on Dec 29, 2023

2 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

10 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 10, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The operation’s handbook was lacking the following subsections: 14, 15, 18, 21-24, and 26.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 24, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 16, 2026.

  • Report Unsafe Facility Occurrence

    “The operation did not report to licensing an oucrrence that made the schooler’s classroom unsafe for the use of the children.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 10, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 2, 2026.

Jan 21, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the employees who left employment in 2025, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by January 15, 2026, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2026.

May 7, 2024: inspection2 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 inspection a 4 year old child was able to leave the classroom by sliding gate out of the way. An infant was able to slide a baby gate away from the wall and leave the infant class.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2024. Correction verified: May 22, 2024.

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “The diaper changing pad located in the bathroom had two peices of tape covering holes. Note: The diaper changing pad was removed during inspection.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2024.

Dec 29, 2023: assessment2 deficiencies

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

    “The fire inspection remains expired. It was last conducted on August 30th, 2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 15, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 4, 2024.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “The center continues not to have feeding instructions for infants in care.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 4, 2024.

Nov 15, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

    “A caregiver present during inspection had an ineligible background check. Note: The caregiver left during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.635(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 29, 2023.

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

    “The fire inspection was last conducted on August 30th, 2022 and is now expired.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 29, 2023.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “The center does not have any feeding instructions for an 8 and 11 month old in care.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 29, 2023.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 3, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “Two caregivers did not have a pre-service/orientation form in their file upon review.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 18, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “Three caregivers files were reviewed. Two caregivers did not have a notarized employee affidavit form.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 18, 2023.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 10, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 28, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 21, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Mar 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 7, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 29, 2023Assessment2 deficiencies cited
Nov 15, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 3, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 9, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 29 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 13 child care providers in Austin County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 10.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 13 in Austin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Trinity Lutheran Preschool8
Met Early Head Start Austin County3
Rece’s House of Angels5
Met/Headstart (Austin County)0
The Playground Daycare Center This child care provider10
Creative Care - Sealy4
Brenda Cash3
Small World Early Childhood Enrichment Center, LLC22
St Marys Episcopal Day School4
Shady Acres Day Care Center1
Matthew 7:24 Early Learning14
Tender Care Learning24

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 Oct 24, 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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