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Little Bit of Home

A licensed child care center in Carrizo Springs, Texas 78834

909 Pine St, Carrizo Springs, Texas 78834. (830) 876-9886.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 18 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

18 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 25, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

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 Jan 2, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Apr 8, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

18 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

18 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.

Aug 25, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One out of four children’s records evalauted were lacking up to date immunizations on file.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2026.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “Documentation for emergency practice drills between January through July 2026 was unavailable for review.”

    Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2026.

Jan 2, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “Two seperate caregivers were observed walking out of a classroom and leaving the children unattended.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

Dec 29, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The loose-fill for a 5 foot slide was not maintained at the required 6 inch depth at the exit of the slide.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operational policies were lacking the parents rights. This was corrected at inspection when the operation was provided with a copy of form 2987 Parent’s Rights. The form will be attached to the operational policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

Apr 8, 2025: inspection8 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A caregiver without an active or eligible background check was present in a classroom at the operation. This was corrected when the caregiver was asked to leave the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 8, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 8, 2025.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “A caregiver was lacking 11 out of the 24 annual training hours for the most recent year completed.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2025.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “The director was lacking 16 out of the 30 annual training hours for the most recent year completed.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2025.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “Two out of three employee records evaluated had out of date first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “Two out of three employee records evaluated had out of date CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2025.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “Two out of five child records evaluated were lacking immunization records.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 17, 2025.

  • Health Statement parent sign - Dated within past yr, name/address health care professional, states child can participate. Follow by signed statement

    “Three out of five children’s records evaluated were lacking a complete health statement.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 17, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Date of Admission

    “Four out of five child records evaluated were lacking an admission date. This was corrected at inspection when the admission dates were added to all records.”

    Rule 746.605(3). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 8, 2025.

Apr 18, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

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

    “The operation did not have a use zone of 6 feet for the ladder that leads to 6 foot slide.”

    Rule 746.4805(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2024. Correction verified: May 1, 2024.

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

    “The center did not have proper amount of loose fill for slide that was approximetly 6 feet tall.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 18, 2024. Correction verified: May 24, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The center was missing criteria for extreme weather in their operational policy.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “The center was missing the inclusion services with children with special care needs.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2024.

Jan 18, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation failed to submit the number of employees that have left their employment in 2023 by January 15th.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 8, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The operation lacked a current fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 16, 2023.

  • Safety Requirements for Cribs - Label for Each Infant

    “Cribs was not labeled to identify which child sleeps in each crib. CI: This was corrected hen the caregiver labeled each crib with the child’s name.”

    Rule 746.2409(a)(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023.

Jul 19, 2022: inspection7 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A caregiver was observed to be in charge of 5 children, who had not received eligibility notice to work at the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

  • AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity

    “There were 36 children observed to be present in care, however the operation’s capacity is 35.”

    Rule 746.201(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - Pre-service Training

    “One out of three staff files reviewed did not have training in the following areas for review. Pre service training with SIDS.”

    Rule 746.1301(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 22, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for Directors 30- Annual Training

    “The Director had six of the required thirty hours of training for the last full year of employment.”

    Rule 746.1301(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “One caregiver was observed with five infants with the specified age of 11 months old.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup

    “An eleven month old infant was observed sleeping in a crib while drinking a bottle.”

    Rule 746.2419(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two out of four children’s records lacked immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 25, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 13, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 2, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 29, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 8, 2025Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Apr 18, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jan 18, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jun 8, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 19, 2022Inspection7 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 23, 1996.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 35 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.
  • 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 5 child care providers in Dimmit County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 18.
Source:

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

5 of the 5 in Dimmit County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kids Are First (Kaf) Head Start - Carrizo Springs3
Bright Future Learning Center5
Cplc Mshs Carrizo4
Little Bit of Home This child care provider18
Kimberly Ann PerezNot given
Happy Days Dcc29

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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