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Elida Mendoza

A registered child care home in Houston, Texas 77067

11935 Elk Springs Dr, Houston, Texas 77067. (832) 776-2272.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 13 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium 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 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

3 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 25, 2026: 5 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

13 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

13 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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 25, 2026: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Children Handwashing After Outdoor Activities

    “Children are not sawing their hands with running soap and water after playing outside. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 747.3213(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026.

  • Safety - 220-Volt Electrical Connections Covered

    “There were uncovered electrical outlets in the area used by children. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 747.3501(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026.

  • Safety Requirements for Sprinkler Play - Equipment and Water Hoses Kept Out of Child’s Reach

    “A water hose was laying on the ground in the backyard where children play.”

    Rule 747.4815(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2026.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training -30 Hours Required

    “The primary caregiver recieved 17 of the 30 required clcokhours of annaul training for the November 2024-November 2025 training year. The caregiver will need to complete 13 clock hours of-make-up training.”

    Rule 747.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 29, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2026.

  • First Aid Kit - Supplies Not Expired

    “The antiseptic solution in the First Aid Kit has expired.”

    Rule 747.3803(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2026.

Aug 27, 2024: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “Children are not washing their hands with running water and soap after diaper changes or toileting.”

    Rule 747.3213(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024.

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “The diaper changing surface is a cloth mat. The surface must be non-absorbent.”

    Rule 747.3303(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 30, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2024.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Required Special Topics without specific hours

    “The primary caregiver did not receive training hours in emergency preparedness, administering medications, communicable diseases including immunizations and handling, storing and disposing of hazardous materials for the November 2022-November 2023 training year.”

    Rule 747.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2024.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Children under the age of 2 were watching a show on the provider’s cell phone. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 27, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Of the four children’s records evaluated, the following information was missing: 1. One lacked the address for the emergency contact 2. One lacked the address of the child’s doctor 3. One lacked the name, address and phone number of the child’s doctor 4. All lacked the re quired information for special needs 5. All lacked documentation that parents have been informed of their rights 6. One was behind with immunizations.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2024.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Drills Documentation

    “The safety drills are not being documented.”

    Rule 747.801(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2024.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training - More Than 5 Years Experience

    “The primary caregiver did not receive 3 clock hours of training in management for the November 2022-November 2023 training year.”

    Rule 747.1309(e)(2). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2024.

  • Required Health Statement

    “Of the four children’s records evalauted, one lacked a health statement.”

    Rule 747.611(a). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 7, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 27, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Of the four children’s records evaluated, two lacked permission for emergency medical care.”

    Rule 747.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Of the four children’s records evaluated, two did not include the address for the emergency contact.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “Of the four children’s records evaluated, two did not include the name, address and phone number for the children’s doctor.”

    Rule 747.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2022.

All 3 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 25, 2026Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Aug 27, 2024Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Sep 27, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Nov 6, 2001.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, 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?

  • 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 13.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Elida Mendoza This child care provider13
Building Blocks Academy Vtm24
Walters Road Head Start7
Janice Franklin13
Avance-Houston, Inc.-Donna C. Lewis Head Start-Spring Isd3
Melba Jean Hawkins2
Creative Kidz Child Care & Preschool4
Early Education Enrichment Academy, Inc.15
Sha’coi Willis18
Lizy Harris8
Kce Champions LLC @ Idea Spears34
Thuy Thanh Tran40
All American Learning Academy23

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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