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Brenda Rios

A registered child care home in Kingsville, Texas 78363

1515 Lewis St, Kingsville, Texas 78363. (979) 709-1657.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 19 child care providers in Kleberg County had 1.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 10, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Mar 10, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

8 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.

Mar 10, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Children files are missing information regarding Authorization For Emergency Medical Attention section.”

    Rule 747.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 19, 2026.

  • Health Statement on File

    “Child’s file is missing a health care statement.”

    Rule 747.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 19, 2026.

Mar 31, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Orientation Required for Caregivers-Overview of Minimum Standards

    “The provider and one household member did not have documentation of orientation on file.”

    Rule 747.1301(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The operational policies on file were missing information on parents vising the home without prior approval, reviewing minimum standards or obtaining them on line, child care regulation website, promotion of indoor and outdoor activities, and the emergency preparedness plan was also missing information such as how a child with limited mobility or who are under 24 months will be evacuated and how the provider will continue to care for children until parents arrive.”

    Rule 747.207(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

  • Mounting of Fire Extinguishers

    “The fire extinguisher was found in the home on a counter in the kitchen unmounted.”

    Rule 747.5105. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training -30 Hours Required

    “The provider was missing 11 hours of annual training for the year 2023-2024.”

    Rule 747.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

  • Children’s Records Accessible - to Licensing

    “One child present at the operation did not have admissions paperwork available for review.”

    Rule 747.601(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Three out of four children’s records did not have a date of admission.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

All 5 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 10, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 31, 2025Inspection6 deficiencies cited
May 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Jul 12, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
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.
  • 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 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 19 child care providers in Kleberg County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 8.
Source:

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

11 of the 19 in Kleberg County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Marc Cisneros Center for Young Children0
Harrel Learning Center0
The Tot Spot Learning Center0
Tiny Hands Learning Center1
Tiny Einstein’s Learning Academy3
Bright Stars Child Development Center, LLC23
Beverly Gant9
Color My World Kidz Academy0
Brenda Rios This child care provider8
Little Red Barn Learning Center LLC1
Higher Ground Learning Center LLC4
Growing in Grace Academy LLC6

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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