Hearth Record

Thelma Cares Academy

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77091

6340 West Little York Road, Houston, Texas 77091. (713) 983-9000.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 14, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Oct 14, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Nov 30, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 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 21, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2025 data from January 20, 2026, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by January 15, 2026, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 26, 2026.

Oct 14, 2025: inspection5 deficiencies

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

    “The operation does not have an updated fire inspection; the last fire inspection was on 02/27/2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “The volunteer transporter does not have transportation training.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “On the playground, CCR observed several tree branches, broken fences with missing pickets that are accessible to the children and water damage to the acoustic tiles on the ceilings of both the basketball room and game room.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Four children’s files were evaluated and are missing the following information: admission date, emergency contact, transport permission, and health care information.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “The volunteer transporter file was not available during the time of the inspection.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2025.

Oct 28, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “One driver did not have current transportation training the training expired June 11, 2024.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2024.

Nov 30, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “The transportation van was involved in a minor accident with children on board when the driver attempted to pull around another bus when there was not sufficient space to move past the other bus.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 22, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “An individual was present and caring for children without having a completed initial background check. The individual was not an employee but frequently visited and care for children at the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 21, 2022.

  • Complying with Laws and Rules

    “The permit holder did not ensure that she was in compliance with minimum standards, rule or law. A child, who was not enrolled, was allowed to be present at the operation during hours of operation. Subsequently, while at the operation, the child sustained a serious injury, which required medical attention.”

    Rule 746.201(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 21, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2023.

Nov 9, 2021: inspection4 deficiencies

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

    “The fire inspection expired August 2021.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 16, 2021.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “Two of the two caregiver files reviewed did not have the required 24 hours training.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2021.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Emergency preparedness (2)Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases (3)Administering medication (4)Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reactions (5)Understanding building and physical premises safety (6)Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials (1)Care of children with special needs [Low];”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2021.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The director did not have the required 30 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2021.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 14, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Nov 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 14, 2025Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Oct 28, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 30, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 22, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Nov 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 9, 2021Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Oct 8, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 27, 1998.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 85 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.
  • 4 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 8.
Source:

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Acres Homes Head Start Center5
Sheila Jane Anderson4
Ages and Stages Child Care Center20
Purple Rose Learning Academy18
Garden Montessori School - Oak Forest4
Thelma Cares Academy This child care provider8
The Learning Tree Child Care Center20
Little People’s Learning Tree11
Gayle Benjamin Childcare18
Our Saviour Lutheran School11
Yorkshire Academy4
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School12

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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