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Carrusel Daycare Center

A licensed child care center in Mission, Texas 78572

423 N Conway Ave, Mission, Texas 78572. (956) 585-3247.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 20, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

13 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.

Jul 31, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “One out of ten staff training records reviewed has a first aid / CPR training that expired 06/2026.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 21, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 6, 2026.

Aug 5, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Medication Authorization - Signed and Dated

    “Operation does not have written medication authorization for two children taking daily medication.”

    Rule 746.3803(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

Feb 5, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Director Annual Training - More than 5 years experience

    “One out of ten staff files reviewed is missing 3 hours in management training.”

    Rule 746.1311(f)(2). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 19, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 11, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Vision and Hearing Screening

    “One out of ten children’s files reviewed is missing hearing/vision screening.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(6). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 19, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 7, 2025.

May 23, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The emergency preparedness plan reviewed was missing the following information: How children who have limited mobility, or who otherwise may need assistance in an emergency, such as children who have mental, visual, or hearing impairments will be evacuated or relocated to the designated safe area or alternate shelter; and The staff responsibility in a sheltering/lock-down emergency for the orderly movement of children to a designated location within the center where children should gather;”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 28, 2024. Correction verified: May 28, 2024.

  • Required Documentation for Unitary Surfacing Materials

    “There was no documentation available for review for the unitary surfacing material installed in the outdoor playground.”

    Rule 746.4913. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 31, 2024. Correction verified: May 31, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “There was no documentation available for the monthly fire extinguisher inspections conducted by the center.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 24, 2024. Correction verified: May 27, 2024.

Apr 29, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “There was no record available for review for a chlid in care.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2024.

Apr 12, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

    “Three children in the toddler room were observed watching videos on a tablet while they waited for the lunch meal to be served.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2024.

Jan 12, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Written Personnel Policies

    “Personnel policies were not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.201(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “two of four transportation vehicles inspected had 3 seat belt buckles missing plastic covers. This posed a safety hazard as the metal of the buckles were exposed. One of the seatbelt’s did not buckle in.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

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

    “A food allergy emergency plan was not available for review for a child with a known food allergy.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “The First aid kit in two of four transportation vehicles was incomplete. A thermometer was missing on both first aid kits. Note: This was CORRECTED during the inspection as a working thermometer was obtained and placed in the first aid kits.”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2024.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 9, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 31, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 5, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 7, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 5, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 28, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 23, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 29, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 12, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 12, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 14, 2024.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 95 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 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 13.
Source:

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

12 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Carrusel Daycare Center This child care provider13
Instituto Bilingue Montessori San Jose17
Stepping Stones25
Noly Learning Academy8
Mickey’s Learning Academy11
Finger Prints Learning Day Care22
Colegio Bilingue Trinidad12
Kids Rock Learning Academy, LLC7
Lily’s Little Kids Day Care Center17
The Little Club Development Center Inc.6
Kiddie Academy5
Mission Early Head Start Academy2
A+ Appletree Academy20

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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