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Daniehl LLC, DBA: First Steps Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77084

5431 Barker Cypress Rd Ste 1500, Houston, Texas 77084. (346) 377-6871.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 7, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit, at the inspection on Aug 27, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 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.

Aug 18, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “3 out of 3 children did not have feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “3 out of 8 files reviewed did not have immunizations.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2025.

Aug 27, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “There was no first aid kit located in the transportation van. Note: This was corrected when the driver placed another kit in the van.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024.

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “In the Toddler room there were 2 outlets uncovered. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when the director covered the outlets.”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024.

Feb 22, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe

    “There is a missing bolt on the playground equipment for the kids.”

    Rule 746.3701(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “2 out of 10 records reviewed there was no admission form on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 9, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Reviewing transportation Children’s emergency contact records, 4 out of 6 children’s records were missing address of another person responsible individual (friend or relative) who be contacted in an emergency when a parent cannot be reached.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 16, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2023.

Apr 10, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “It was observed inside the Pre-K Classroom an ant bed at the exit door, ants coming inside the classroom.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 17, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 12, 2023.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “In the Tiny Stepper’s Classroom it was observed the Ceiling tile has a stained from possible leak.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 12, 2023.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures

    “There was no emergency secondary location on the emergency preparedness plan. Note: THis was corrected at inspection when the permit holder added the secondary emergency location.”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2023.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan-Continuity of Care Until Children Released

    “Emergency Preparedness plan did not have procedure for: How your staff will continue to care for the children until each child has been released. Note: This was corrected at inspection, when the permit holder added the procedure to the emergency policy.”

    Rule 746.5202(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2023.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan-Reunification Plan

    “Emergency Preparedness plan did not have procedure for: How you will reunify the children with their parents as the evacuation, relocation, or sheltering/lock-down is lifted. Note: This was corrected at inspection, when the permit holder added the procedure to the emergency policy.”

    Rule 746.5202(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2023.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 30, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 18, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 19, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 27, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 22, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 9, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 10, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 7, 2023.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 102 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 6.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Daniehl LLC, DBA: First Steps Learning Center This child care provider6
The Bear Creek Kindercare8
Bear Creek UMC School1
Maria R Tafhurt1
Katy Isd East Transportation8
Graciela FonsecaNot given
Little Leaders Academy2
Little Hearts Learning Center8
Sylvia Home Child Care4
Trang Pham Duong9
Adriana MartinezNot given
Mon Petit Learning Center1
Tuyen Ly8

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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