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Sedney Bolden

A licensed child care home in Red Oak, Texas 75154

511 Canary Ln, Red Oak, Texas 75154. (214) 709-0119.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 5 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 98 child care providers in Ellis County had 1.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 22, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans, at the inspection on Apr 29, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 18, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Liability Insurance Requirements - If No Insurance Then Must Provide Written Proof Annually by Anniversary Date of Issuance

    “The liability insurance verification is past due since 6-11-26.”

    Rule 747.211(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 25, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 14, 2026.

Apr 10, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - Licensed Child Care Home

    “At the time of inspection there are three children aged 0-17 months old and 7 children aged 18 months and older.”

    Rule 747.1801. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 13, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “At the time of inspection, children did not wash their hands before or after eating their meal.”

    Rule 747.3213(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 13, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “At the time of inspection, the children were watching seaseme street.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2026.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “At the time of inspection, there are two children whose health statement selection are past due. There is one child’s folder who’s health statement section has not been completed or signed by parent.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 13, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

Aug 28, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides

    “Use zone entering the slide is not six feet.”

    Rule 747.4605(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2025.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides- Six Feet High or Less

    “Slide exit was found to be less then six feet.”

    Rule 747.4605(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2025.

Jul 31, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “Electrical outlets were observed uncovered.”

    Rule 747.3501(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2025.

  • Posting Requirements-Inspection Report

    “Operation did not have previous Form 2936 posted.”

    Rule 747.401(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “A caregiver does not have a notarized affidavit on file.”

    Rule 747.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 8, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2025.

Apr 29, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans

    “The operational policies did not have information regarding the emergency preparedness plan.”

    Rule 747.501(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2025.

  • First Aid Kit - Complete Kit

    “The first aid kit was observed to be incomplete.”

    Rule 747.3803(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2025. Correction verified: May 2, 2025.

  • Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website

    “The operational policies lacked the instructions on how parents Minimum standards online, Texas Abuse and Neglect Hotline, and HHSC website.”

    Rule 747.501(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2025.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 22, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Jun 18, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 10, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Oct 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 31, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 29, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Oct 13, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 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 27, 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: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 98 child care providers in Ellis County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 13.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 98 in Ellis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Sedney Bolden This child care provider13
Schupmann After the Bell0
Tammy Watson2
Dallas Darlings Daycare Licensed Child Care Home1
Kids University2
Harvest Heights Childcare & Christian Academy1
Just Kidding Around Too2
Ardent Academy2
Little Schoolhouse7
Oaks Learning Center4
Samantha Olden1
Meghan Myers4
Ryndi?s Rainbow Academy9

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 27, 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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