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Hope’s Tender Loving Child Care

A licensed child care center in Bryan, Texas 77808

4806 E State Hwy 21, Bryan, Texas 77808. (979) 571-2707.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2024. 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 105 child care providers in Brazos County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 29, 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

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2024. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 deficiencies 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.

Jan 9, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Suspension and Expulsion

    “The operation was missing policies and procedures for suspension and expulsion, hearing/vision screening, applying insect repellent/sunscreen, parental communication with director, parent participation, breastfeeding, health checks for the children in care, employee vaccination policy, procedures for inclusive services to children with special needs, and gang free zone.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 16, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

    “Two children in care were missing health statements, one child in care was missing an Emergency Action Plan. Two caregivers were missing their high school diploma/GED. Two caregivers were missing a copy of their ID/Driver’s License. The annual CPSC was not available for review. The operation did not have the annual fire inspection/sanitation inspection available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 23, 2024.

12 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 6, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    “While revieweing staff files there was no employee orientation available for viewing.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 22, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Duration

    “While reviewing the parent handbook there was no duration for indoor and outdoor activities available.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2023.

  • Provide Parents With Copy of Policies

    “While reviewing children’s records there was not a signed copy by the parent stating they recieved a copy of the operational policy.”

    Rule 746.503. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2023.

Feb 3, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing

    “While doing a following up walk through there was a slide present in the outdoor play area with no surfacing underneath.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “While reviewing staff records there was one staff record with a blank notarized Licensing Affidavit for Applicants for Employment form.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2023.

Jan 20, 2023: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Smoke-Detection System

    “While doing a walk through the classroom that will be used for children in care was found to not have a smoke detector installed.”

    Rule 746.5311(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “While walking the outdoor play area the grass was not properly maintained and there was a large dip in the ground that presents a tripping hazard. While walking through the restrooms there was a bottle of bleach water on the lower shelf of the diaper changing table.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2023.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram

    “While doing a walk through there was no emergency evacuation plan available for viewing.”

    Rule 746.5207(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2023.

  • Posting of Activity Plan

    “While doing a walk through there was no activity plan posted in the operation.”

    Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2023.

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “While observing the first aid kit it was found there was no thermometer and tweezers available.”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2023.

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space -Exits Required

    “While doing a walk through in the outdoor play area there was fencing with one exit.”

    Rule 746.4307. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “While reviewing records one staff file was found to not have the required documents for review and the other staff file was not available for viewing.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2023.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 9, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 3, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 20, 2023Inspection7 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 11, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 18 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.
  • 0 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 105 child care providers in Brazos County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 2.
Source:

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

11 of the 105 in Brazos County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Adele Wright1
Bcs New Horizons Learning Center LLC8
Hope’s Tender Loving Child Care This child care provider2
Alphabest @ Mitchell-Bryan0
Southwood Learning Center1
Royal Street Kindercare14
Bryan Child Development Center2
Janettes Childcare0
Karlas Kare0
Bethel Lutheran Preschool0
Vanessa Smith1
Covenant Presbyterian Children’s Center2

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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