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Brainstorm Childcare and Learning Center-Southside

A licensed child care center in Corpus Christi, Texas 78413

5245 Yorktown Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas 78413. (361) 452-2211.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 8 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 160 child care providers in Nueces County had 2.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 1, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Jun 16, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the inspection on May 1, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Smoke Detectors Testing, at the inspection on Nov 25, 2024

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

15 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 16, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Caregiver was unable to provide proper supervision on playground due to being out of ratio.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2026.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Caregiver was out of ratio during outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2026.

May 1, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “One caregiver was observed to be in ratio in the infant classroom and was caring for children without a submitted background check.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 11, 2026.

Dec 10, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Other Use of Handwashing Sink

    “The hand washing sinks in the infant rooms were observed to be used to rinse bottles.”

    Rule 746.2419(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

Jun 24, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “An updated sanitation inspection was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 8, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 8, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “Outdoor slides observed to not have appropriate depth in surfacing, measuring under 6 inches of required depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 15, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 15, 2025.

Dec 18, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “The Trash Can in the Pre-K room did not have a lid mking the garbage accessible to the children.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2024.

  • Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    “A nap mat that was being used was observed to be torn making it hard to wash and or sanitize. This was corrected during the inspection when the director removed the mat and supplied the child with another,”

    Rule 746.4503(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2024.

Nov 25, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Smoke Detectors Testing

    “Monthly Smoke Detection checks are not being conducted.”

    Rule 746.5319. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 9, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 12, 2024.

  • Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

    “The monthly Fire Extinguisher checks have not been conducted.”

    Rule 746.5307(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 9, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 12, 2024.

Aug 20, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The fence on the playground was broken fence boards and portruding nails that pose a potental hazard to the children.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 20, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Of the 7 children files reviewed, five did not have the Special Needs section completed.”

    Rule 746.605(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Of the 7 children files reviewed, four did not have the Health Statement completed.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2024.

  • Posting Requirements - List entitled “Current Employees”--sized at least 81/2 X 11 inches, printed legibly, include employee first and last name

    “The most current Employee List was not posted at the time of the inspection. This was corrected during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.401(9). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2024.

Jun 26, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Illegal Operation - Not Licensed

    “During the Application inspection Child Care Regulation representative observed children in care. The operation was offering services without an initial permit.”

    Rule HRC42.041(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 28, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 27, 2024.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2026Report to the stateOutcome pending
Jun 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 16, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 22, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
May 1, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 25, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 2, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 10, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 24, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 25, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 20, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jun 26, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 27, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 100 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.
  • 5 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 160 child care providers in Nueces County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 15.
Source:

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

11 of the 160 in Nueces County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Acushnet Kindercare10
Second Baptist Child Development Center8
After Hour Kid Power at Club Estates0
After Hour Kid Power at Sanders0
After Hour Kid Power at Schanen1
After Hour Kid Power at Jones0
Under the Son Home Day School1
Dana Murphys Daycare1
Maricela Lopez4
Odyssey Early Learning at Lipes23
Brainstorm Childcare and Learning Center-Southside This child care provider15
Kirk Allen Wood7

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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