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In His Hands Day Care

A licensed child care center in Canyon, Texas 79015

1818 4th Ave, Canyon, Texas 79015. (806) 655-5437.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 59 child care providers in Randall County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 19, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on Feb 27, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Feb 27, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

10 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.

Feb 19, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training

    “Two employee files still lacked orientation.”

    Rule 746.901(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2026.

Feb 3, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A food allergy plan for a child in care with a diagnosed food allergy lacks the physician signature and parent signature.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

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

    “The side access did not have adequate 6 feet use zone and children were observed using the equipment.”

    Rule 746.4805(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training

    “Three employee files lacked orientation.”

    Rule 746.901(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

Feb 27, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Based on evidence obtained during the DFPS investigation, a caregiver was thumping children on their hands as a means to stop unwanted behavior for discipline.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 17, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2025.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “Based on evidence obtained during the DFPS investigation, a caregiver disciplined a child inappropriately. The child was asked to put down a handful of rocks and then the caregiver grabbed the child by the arm in an attempt to get the child to release the rocks.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 17, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2025.

Mar 20, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “One classroom with a specified age group of 12-17 month old infants required two staff members in the classroom with the 8 children in care but only had one staff member observed in the classroom upon entry of the room at inspections. The caregiver that left the classroom to utilize the restroom, promptly returned and the classroom was back in ratio during nap time.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “One slide on the younger children playground has screws that pose a hazard to children in care. Two screws have broken from the plastic and poses a pinch hazard, and one screw protrudes up and is a pinch hazard. Additionally, the older children playground has a metal post protruding from the ground and is a trip hazard. This was corrected at inspection with the slide removed and the metal post was pulled up and removed.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Five infants in the infant classroom were past due on infant feeding instructions requiring to be updated in the last 30 days that are consuming formula or breastmilk.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 29, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2024.

  • Medication No Longer Used

    “Two medications required for known food allergies is expired and is in need of replacing.”

    Rule 746.3809. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 29, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 19, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “Climbing equipment on the playground that requires six inches of loose fill within the use zone had various areas that had hard and compacted dirt and there was not sufficient 6 inches of loose fill.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2023. Correction verified: May 3, 2023.

  • Chairs - Safety Straps Used if Required by Manufacturer

    “One classroom with infants and toddlers was observed during snack time and the children were no secured with the buckle in the multiple occupancy table that has buckles.”

    Rule 746.4501(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 3, 2023.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 19, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 3, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 27, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 20, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
May 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 19, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 12, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 16, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 12, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 20, 1999.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 190 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.
  • 3 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 59 child care providers in Randall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 10.
Source:

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

11 of the 59 in Randall County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Sunshine Child Care16
Christian Learning Center of Fbc6
Tammy PermenterNot given
Lori Ann Skipton1
Oh Ba-Bee Daycare4
Samara GonzalesNot given
In His Hands Day Care This child care provider10
Friendship Ranch Child Development Center16
Valerie Campbell4
Pavillard Learning Center8
Kristens Daycare12
Brittany BrannonNot given

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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