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Growing Patch In-Home Preschool

A licensed child care home in Austin, Texas 78750

12303 Split Rail Pkwy, Austin, Texas 78750. (512) 299-0336.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 467 child care providers in Williamson County had 3.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 29, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing or pulling, at the report to the state on Aug 5, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

5 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.

Jan 29, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Special topics for children under 24 months

    “The primary caregiver did not have proof of annual training for SIDS, Shaken Baby, and Early Brain Development.”

    Rule 747.1309(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 12, 2026.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “One child had a medication for a food allergy but did not have a food allergy plan. Another child had a food allergy plan that was not signed by the parent and did not have the medication listed in the plan. Without this medication, the food allergy plan could not be implemented.”

    Rule 747.3619. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Required Special Topics without specific hours

    “The primary caregiver did not have proof of annual training for emergency preparedness, food allergies, and administering medication.”

    Rule 747.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 12, 2026.

Aug 5, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing or pulling

    “During a self-reported investigation, a caregiver was observed lifting a child from a sitting position by one of their arms. The child was diagnosed with nursemaid’s elbow.”

    Rule 747.2705(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2025.

Dec 14, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The fire drill has not been conducted since September 28,2023. This was corrected at the inspection when a drill was conducted with an exit time of 2 minutes.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 14, 2023.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 29, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 19, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 8, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 5, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 14, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Feb 26, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 11 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 467 child care providers in Williamson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 467 in Williamson County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Bethany School6
Ashleys Playhouse13
Anderson Mill Kindercare10
The Nest at Anderson Mill13
Growing Patch In-Home Preschool This child care provider5
Purple Sage YMCA of Central Texas2
The Learning Experience1
Rosa Gallardo1
Clever Academy22
Stepping Stone School VI0
Stepping Stone School IV0
Nicholson Early Childhood Education Center0

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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