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Ofelia Mendoza

A registered child care home in El Paso, Texas 79935

10417 Bywood Dr, El Paso, Texas 79935. (915) 238-3824.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 3 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 371 child care providers in El Paso County had 2.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 12, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Renewal background checks submitted -No later than 5 yrs from date last submitted subjects initial or renewal fingerprint-based criminal hist check, at the inspection on May 22, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

6 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 12, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver -30 Hours Annual Training

    “Primary caregiver is missing 9 hours of annual training for his/her evaluation period. Primary caregiver only has 21 hours of training from the required 30 hours available for review.”

    Rule 747.1303(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2026.

  • Safety - Poisonous Plants Inaccessible to Children

    “During inspection, it was observed that the operation has a pink oleander plant accessible in the outdoor play area. This plant is known to be poisonous if ingested. Photo taken.”

    Rule 747.3501(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2026.

Oct 14, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Background Check Validation - Once a year listed family homes, licensed, and registered child care homes must validate list of subjects

    “The operation has not validated their people list within the past year. The last time their people list was validated was on 3/7/24. This was corrected at inspection after child care regulation inspector validated the people list on behalf of the operation.”

    Rule 745.651(2)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2025.

May 22, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • AP Renewal background checks submitted -No later than 5 yrs from date last submitted subjects initial or renewal fingerprint-based criminal hist check

    “The operation failed to timely submit the information required to conduct a renewal background check for an individual (household member) who had a fingerprint check. Last fingerprint check for the individual is dated 4/20/2019. The renewal background check must be submitted within 5 years (date to date) of the previous check for an individual who had a fingerprint check. This was corrected at inspection after primary caregiver completed/submitted a paper Child Care Licensing Request for Background Check form 2971 for the household member.”

    Rule 745.621(b)(1)(A). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2024.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not practice a fire drill for the month of April. No documentation of the fire emergency drill was available for review. This was corrected at inspection after a fire drill was practiced to make up for the month of April.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “A child’s file is missing the health care professional statement. The child does not attend school yet.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2024. Correction verified: May 29, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 11, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Primary Caregiver in Registered Home Qualifications - pediatric first-aid and pediatric CPR

    “The primary caregiver had an expired first aid certification on file.”

    Rule 747.1007(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 24, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 26, 2023.

Apr 11, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Permit Required

    “The operation has not renewed the daycare permit as of 4/1/0/22.”

    Rule 745.41. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 13, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2022.

  • Pediatric First-Aid and Pediatric CPR Training - Primary, Assistant, and Substitute Caregivers

    “The primary caregiver’s CPR/First Aid training has expired as of 3/2021 and will need to be renewed.”

    Rule 747.1313(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 11, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 27, 2022.

All 5 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 12, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 14, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 22, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 11, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 11, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Apr 10, 1998.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 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.
  • 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 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 371 child care providers in El Paso County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
Source:

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

11 of the 371 in El Paso County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Wee Wisdom8
YMCA After School Childcare at Vista Hills2
Bright Minds Early Learning Center5
Little Kings and Queens Daycare14
Apex Karate Academy5
YWCA Mabee Academy of Early Learning9
Aggies Angels Childcare & Development Center9
It Takes A Village1
Ofelia Mendoza This child care provider6
Sunshine Day Care Center No 28
Vista Del Sol Kindercare3
Three-R DC & Sch10

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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