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A licensed child care center in San Antonio, Texas 78217

4222 Thousand Oaks Dr, San Antonio, Texas 78217. (210) 802-8272.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 768 child care providers in Bexar County had 5.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 2, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for, at the inspection on Jun 9, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter, at the inspection on Dec 15, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Fees, at the assessment on Oct 17, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

4 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.

Jun 9, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “The caregivers in the Toddler room repeatedly stated that there were eight children in care when there were nine. This was corrected at inspection when a secondary count was conducted with the director and the count was updated on the classroom’s white board.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2026.

Dec 15, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

    “A church employee with an ineligible background check was observed working out of the center. This was corrected at inspection when the person left the building.”

    Rule 745.635(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 16, 2025.

Oct 17, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Fees

    “The operation has not paid background check fees.”

    Rule HRC42.054. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 20, 2025.

Dec 19, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “A fire drill was not conducted in the month of November. This was corrected at inspection when a fire drill was conducted.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2023.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 18, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “One of four files audited did not have a signed emergency authorization.”

    Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Two of four children’s files audited did not have emergency contact information. This was corrected at inspection when the director contacted the parents and obtained the necessary information.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Three of four children’s files audited did not have a health care statement on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 4, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “One of four children’s files audited did not have the physician information on file.”

    Rule 746.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “One of three employee files audited did not have educational requirements on file.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2023.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 17, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 22, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 28, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 19, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 9, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 6, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 18, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Jul 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 2, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 88 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.
  • 1 report 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 768 child care providers in Bexar County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 768 in Bexar County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Sharon Villarreal9
Beaming Bright Learning Center19
We Luv Kids Learning Center, LLC15
Jaqueline Lara3
Nhumc Ministry Center Childcare13
Helen Marie’s Christian Childcare41
Vertical Kids This child care provider4
Bright Kids Daycare and Learning Center #26
Jesica Montalvo1
Rise and Shine Childcare0
Bo Peep Day Care10
Brighton 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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