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Creative Care - Blalock

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77080

1639 Blalock Rd, Houston, Texas 77080. (713) 465-0011.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 5, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle, at the inspection on Aug 5, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

11 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 5, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “A transportation van purchased after 12.2013 was not equipped with a child safety alarm.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “The loose fill in the swing areas of the older playground area measured at less than 3 inches deep.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “The loose fill of the slide in the older playground area measured at less than 4 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

May 7, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A pushpin was in an area that was accessible to a child in care at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2026.

Mar 23, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Two infants that are not yet on table food did not have an updated feeding instruction signed by a parent/guardian.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 23, 2026.

Sep 3, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There are two ant hills and high grass in the outdoor play area.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 17, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “The use zone of two swings sets have a depth of 3in.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 17, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “The use zone of a slide with a height of 5ft 7in has a loose-fill surfacing depth of 3.5 inches. The use zone of a play structure with a height of 5ft 9in has a loose-fill surfacing depth of 7 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 17, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2025.

Aug 19, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “Two of the sofas in the school age room have torn couches.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2025.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Swings - No Overlap

    “The use zone of a to and fro swing set overlaps with a rocking horse.”

    Rule 746.4807(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 3, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Two employees did not have the completed pre-affidavit form on file.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2025.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 5, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 7, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 23, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 3, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Aug 19, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 6, 2026.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 193 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.
  • 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 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 2139 child care providers in Harris 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
YMCA After School @ Pine Shadows16
Clay Road Baptist Early Child Care21
St Jerome Early Childhood Ctr8
Ana Hall10
Dung Tran4
Christian Academy of Little Saints7
Aurora Ileana Cordon18
The Arbor School6
Spring Branch After-School Martial Arts10
Creative Care - Blalock This child care provider11
Creative Care- Kempwood8
Cinthia Rodas1

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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