Hearth Record

Laura Vaughn

A registered child care home in Kilgore, Texas 75662

303 Laurel St, Kilgore, Texas 75662. (425) 319-0383.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 68 child care providers in Gregg County had 4.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 10, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Jun 19, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

13 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 8, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation has not completed a fire drill for the 2026 calendar year.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2026.

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

    “During the inspection screen time was observed during nap time.”

    Rule 747.2105(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2026.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “During review 3 of the children’s records did not have a statement of health.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 22, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - School Information for School-age Child

    “During review 3 of the children’s records that required school information did not have it on file.”

    Rule 747.605(13). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2026.

Jun 19, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “During review one of the two children’s records reviewed was missing the emergency authorization information and the emergency contact information.”

    Rule 747.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2025.

  • Background Check Validation - Once a year listed family homes, licensed, and registered child care homes must validate list of subjects

    “During the insepction the background check validation was seen last completed in May 2024. This was corrected at the insepction when the background check validation was completed.”

    Rule 745.651(2)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025.

  • Posting Requirements-Inspection Report

    “The most recent insepction report was not posted during the insepction.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “During review one of the two children enrolled did not have admission information on file with the daycare.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2025.

  • Personnel Records

    “The assistant caregiver did not have personnel information on file during the insepction.”

    Rule 747.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2025.

  • Records Storage-Each Record Required 3 months

    “The operation had not kept children’s admission records for the required 3 months. This was corrected at inspection through a meeting with all caregivers about record requirements.”

    Rule 747.803(a). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025.

Jun 6, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, Relocation and Sheltering Procedures

    “An Emergency Preparedness Plan was not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.5003(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2024.

  • Animals at Center - Statement of Health from Veterinarian

    “During the insepciton the Statement of Health was not availble for one of the animals.”

    Rule 747.3703(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Animals

    “During review the operational policies were missing a statement on animals at the operation, how parents can access minimum standards online, promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activities and how parents can access the HHSC Website and local licensing office.”

    Rule 747.501(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2024.

All 5 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 8, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jun 19, 2025Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Jul 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 6, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Jul 12, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 6 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 30, 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 68 child care providers in Gregg County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 13.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 68 in Gregg County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Bricks Learning Center4
Teresa CancholaNot given
Overnight Owls5
Anita Brinkley1
Children’s Amazing Palace Learning Academy30
First Baptist Church Cdc7
Laura Vaughn This child care provider13
Stepping Stone Preschool LLC0
Kids World Learning Center7
Meadowbrook Preschool & Childrens Center6
Prep School4
Garrett Tender Loving Care Learning 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 Oct 30, 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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