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First United Methodist Children’s Center

A licensed child care center in Huntsville, Texas 77320

1016 Sam Houston Ave, Huntsville, Texas 77320. (936) 295-5441.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

11 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 21 child care providers in Walker County had 4.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 19, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age, at the report to the state on Aug 10, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Infants sleep in Designated Crib, Cot, Bed, or Mat, at the report to the state on Aug 10, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device - Remove the infant from the device and place the infant in a crib as soon as possible, at the report to the state on Aug 10, 2026

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

11 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.

Aug 10, 2026: report to the state4 deficiencies
  • AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and found deficient. Infants younger than 12 months have slept with a blanket in their crib, slept in a Boppy pillow in their crib, and slept with a bib and pacifier with attachments in their crib.”

    Rule 746.2415(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

  • Infants sleep in Designated Crib, Cot, Bed, or Mat

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and found deficient. A non-walking infant has napped on an infant play mat on the floor. This child does not have a sleep exception form on file.”

    Rule 746.2424. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device - Remove the infant from the device and place the infant in a crib as soon as possible

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and found deficient. A child been photographed asleep in a bouncer on three occasions.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 22, 2026.

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Child must not go more than 3 hours

    “This standard was tasked as part of an investigation and found deficient. It was reported by center staff that an infant went without a bottle for longer than three hours on one occasion.”

    Rule 746.3301(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

Jul 13, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Per video a child went to the restroom by themselves.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 20, 2026.

Feb 25, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “Three out of ten personnel files do not have pediatric CPR training on a manikin.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2026.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups

    “five out of six infant bottles were not labelled in one infant classroom. This was corrected at inspection when infant bottles were labelled.”

    Rule 746.2419(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 25, 2026.

Aug 6, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The parent rights were not included in the operational policies as required.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “1 out of 10 children’s files evaluated did not have a health statement in the file. The paperwork stated a health statement was attached, but the health statement was not in the file.”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

Dec 3, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A child with a food allergy had the required emergency plan but did not have the medication listed on the plan at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2024.

Nov 7, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “1 of 3 staff files evaluated was missing the pre-employment 2912 affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 12, 2024.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 19, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 31, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2026Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Jul 21, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 13, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 25, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 6, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 7, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 7, 2025.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 116 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.
  • 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 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 21 child care providers in Walker County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 11.
Source:

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

11 of the 21 in Walker County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Edna DuronNot given
Denim and Diamonds Pre-School Kids Klub 21
Tasy Academy4
Kathryn Michelle Altom1
Getcap Head Start and Early Head Start at Huntsville3
Tomorrow’s Promise Children’s House6
Friends at Giggles & Grins3
Kelly King7
First United Methodist Children’s Center This child care provider11
Sheri Gale Miles0
Faith Lutheran School9
Discovery Days Preschool1

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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