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Leslie Serrato

A registered child care home in Blessing, Texas 77419

450 Mulberry Street, Blessing, Texas 77419. (361) 554-5030.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 21 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?

21 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 17 child care providers in Matagorda County had 2.

4 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 18, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Jan 13, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Jan 13, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Illegal Operation - Not Registered, at the report to the state on Aug 19, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

21 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

21 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 21, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Caregivers- Pediatric First-Aid and Pediatric CPR

    “Documentation of CPR training was not observed for the primary caregiver or for the employed caregivers.”

    Rule 747.1303(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Caregivers Licensed -24 hours Annual Training

    “A review of one caregiver s personnel file indicated no documentation of required annual training certificates.”

    Rule 747.1303(4)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver -30 Hours Annual Training

    “30 training hours for the primary caregiver were not observed during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.1303(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2026.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

    “Follow up 1/21/26: Caregiver files were available for review; however, the primary caregivers file was not available for review.”

    Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2026.

Jan 13, 2026: inspection12 deficiencies

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

    “A caregiver was observed in charge without a current background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

  • Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children

    “A bottle of prescription medication was observed sitting on the dinning room table accessible to children. Note: The caregiver removed the bottle from the table and ensured it was put up where the children could not access it.”

    Rule 747.3607(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The operational policies were not available during my inspection.”

    Rule 747.207(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “The TV was on when I arrived for my inspection and a child under two years old is currently present and was watching the TV.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements-License

    “The permit was not posted.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements-Inspection Report

    “The previous inspection report was not posted.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements-Keeping Children Safe Poster

    “The keeping children safe poster was not posted.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements-Telephone Numbers

    “Emergency telephone numbers were not posted.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Children’s Records Accessible - to Caregiver

    “The primary caregiver left a subsitute in charge, while they were absent, and did not leave children files.”

    Rule 747.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 14, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Children’s Records Accessible - to Licensing

    “Children files were inaccessible to CCR during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.601(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 14, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

    “Personnel files were not available during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 14, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Drills Documentation

    “The emergency drill logs were not available during my inspection.”

    Rule 747.801(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 14, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

Nov 8, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Equipment Prohibited for Younger Than 5 Yrs - Fulcrum Seesaws

    “There is a see saw attached to the swing set. There is also a see saw on the playground with four seats.”

    Rule 747.4405(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 12, 2024.

  • Equipment Prohibited for Younger Than 4 Yrs - Over-head Rings

    “There are over head rings on one of the swing sets.”

    Rule 747.4405(b)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 12, 2024.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Stationary Equipment

    “The see saw is in the use zone of the swings.”

    Rule 747.4603. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 12, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “The admission forms do not have the completed enrollment agreement for the children.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2024.

Aug 19, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Illegal Operation - Not Registered

    “The operation was providing childcare services for 6 unrelated children. The care being provided met the definition of regular care.”

    Rule HRC42.052(d). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 6, 2024.

All 5 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jan 13, 2026Inspection12 deficiencies cited
Nov 8, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 19, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Dec 20, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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 rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 17 child care providers in Matagorda County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 21.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 17 in Matagorda County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Sandra Kay NeelyNot given
Leslie Serrato This child care provider21
Eva’s Licensed Childcare Home0
Lutheran Social Services of the South,dba Upbring Head3
Discovering Minds Child Development Center8
Icreate Child Development Center8
Tender Years Enrichment Learning Center II0
Jo Ann Burrell2
Sunshine and Rainbows2
YMCA at Linnie Roberts1
YMCA at Cherry Elementary1
YMCA at Tenie Holmes2

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 24, 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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