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Melissa Kindercare

A licensed child care center in Melissa, Texas 75454

3404 Sky Ridge Ln, Melissa, Texas 75454. (469) 905-3690.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 5 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?

13 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 647 child care providers in Collin County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 11, 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 29, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions, at the inspection on Sep 11, 2025

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 Sep 11, 2025

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

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

13 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.

Aug 10, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “A caregiver at the operation had continued working with children after her first aid certification had expired. The caregiver no longer works at the operation.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR

    “A caregiver at the operation had continued working with children after her CPR certification had expired. The caregiver no longer works at the operation.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(4)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2026.

Jan 29, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A person was present and caring for children without receiving notification from the CBCU that the person is eligible to be present. This was corrected during the inspection when the person left the building.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 29, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 11, 2026.

Jan 27, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. The operation did not report the injury to CCR.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 25, 2026.

Nov 13, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns

    “The operation’s weekly menul was missing the following componets: Breakfast- Grain- two days, Lunch- Meat or meat alternative- two days, Lunch- Fruit- one day.”

    Rule 746.3301(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2025.

  • Required Documentation for Unitary Surfacing Materials

    “The operation does not have unitary surfacing documentation on file.”

    Rule 746.4913. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 4, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2025.

Sep 11, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “The background check status of a caregiver includes a condition which states that this person may only be supervised by a person with no conditions regarding his or her presence at the operation. During the inspection the caregiver was caring for children in a classroom along with another caregiver who did not have an eligible background check status. This was corrected during the inspection when a caregiver with an eligible background check status replaced the caregiver without an eligible background check status in the classroom.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2025.

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

    “During the inspection two caregivers were present and caring for children without the operation receiving notification from the criminal background check unit that they were eligible to be present and caring for children. This was corrected when the caregivers left the building during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2025.

May 29, 2025: inspection5 deficiencies
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “This standard was found to be deficient as the operation was not able to provide a current fire inspection during the application inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

  • Infant Care Area - Safe, Open Floor Space

    “This standard was found to be deficient as both infant classrooms were not set up to include safe, open floor space for floor time play during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2403(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “This standard was found to be deficient after it was observed that a toilet rail in a classroom needs repair. Additionally, the playground area has an outdoor faucet box missing a cover. Loos materials were stored near an entrance , creating a tripping hazard, and a ceiling tile was missing in a classroom , exposing pipes and wiring.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Two Exits from Each Room

    “This standard was found to be defieicent after the operation did not have emgency evacuation diagrams with two exit paths from each room during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.5207(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “This standard was found to be deficient after the operation’s sleeping cots were not properly labeled or identified.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Aug 6, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 31, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 30, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 29, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 27, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 13, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 11, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 29, 2025Inspection5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 19, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 275 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.
  • 4 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 647 child care providers in Collin County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 13.
Source:

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

11 of the 647 in Collin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Cardinal Childcare Center4
Arrow Academy2
Pinnacle Montessori of Melissa13
The Sunny Days Schoolhouse0
N4 Montessori Academy of Melissa14
Little Seeds Learning Center LLC1
Alyssa BattlesNot given
Melissa Kindercare This child care provider13
Tiny Cardinals Home Daycare LLC1
Primrose School of Melissa9
Farah Verde0
Denice Merryfield1

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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