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Havenwood Nature School West

A licensed child care center in Dripping Springs, Texas 78620

145 Broken Lance, Dripping Springs, Texas 78620. (512) 900-5101.

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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 Sep 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 124 child care providers in Hays County had 2.

18 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 17, 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 Sep 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.
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.

Sep 24, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “There was not 6 inches of loose fill in the use zone of the tire climbing structure on the playground.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “Of the six children files reviewed during inspection, none had the required emergency medical authorization information filled out and signed by parents.”

    Rule 746.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 8, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 26, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety

    “Supervision was compromised when there was a child that sustained multiple bite wounds from another child while on the playground.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 21, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2024.

Aug 28, 2023: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A toddler was left unsupervised for about 2 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation did not notify Child Care Regulation about a toddler being left unsupervised within the required 2 day timeframe.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “The operation did not immediately notify the parents about a toddler being left unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “The operation did not provide the incident report to the parent in a timely manner so that they could sign it within 48 hours of the incident.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

Aug 25, 2023: 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

    “A child was left unsupervised for about 10 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

Aug 16, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “One child’s file was missing a health statement.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 1, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 30, 2023.

Jun 26, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides

    “One of the play structures has a slide that is very close to a tree. The use zone on the side of the slide is not large enough.”

    Rule 746.4805(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2023.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Nine infant feeding schedules had not been reviewed by parents in the last 30 days.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2023.

All 23 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 1, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 12, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 24, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 26, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2023Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Aug 25, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 16, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 26, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 23, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 12, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 68 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.
  • 5 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 124 child care providers in Hays 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 124 in Hays County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Pathways School at Dsmc1
Primrose School of Dripping Springs4
Moxie Gymnastics and Cheer3
Havenwood Nature School2
Oaksong School of the Hill Country2
Havenwood Nature School West This child care provider2
Over Yonder Nature School11
The Prep School of Headwaters7
Your Growing Child0
Dripping Springs Educators Child Development Center5
Sunset Canyon Baptist Church Preschool0
Holy Spirit Episcopal School0

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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