Mother Goose Home Day Care

A licensed child care home in Marlin, Texas 76661

118 Neumann Dr, Marlin, Texas 76661. (254) 292-9411.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Falls County: 8
2 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
6 inspections on record
4-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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 5 child care providers in Falls County had 8.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 23, 2026: 4 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Jun 23, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Initial background checks submitted - At the time you submit your application, at the inspection on Sep 15, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

10 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023											Nov	Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 23, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

“During inspection, one of the child’s file was missing the authorization to obtain emergency medical treatment.”

Rule 747.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2026.
Posting Requirements-Food Allergies Posted Prominently

“During inspection food allergy information was not posted as required. Children records were evaluated and two children have documented food allergy plans.”

Rule 747.401(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2026.
Children’s Records - Admission Information

“During inspection two children files were missing the admission requirements”

Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2026.
Posting Requirements-List of Employees

“During inspection the operation did not have a list of employee list posted as require for Minimum Standards.”

Rule 747.401(a)(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2026.

Sep 15, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

Initial background checks submitted - At the time you submit your application

“A new caregiver was observed caring for children without a submitted background check. This was corrected at inspection when they were asked to leave.”

Rule 745.621(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 15, 2025.

Nov 21, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

First Aid Kit - Supplies Not Expired

“A tube of cream in the first aid kit was expired. This was corrected during the inspection when the cream was removed from the first aid kit.”

Rule 747.3803(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024.
Children’s Records - Admission Information

“Out of four children’s files reviewed, one child was missing an admission date and one child with a diagnosed food allergy did not have a complete allergy plan on file.”

Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 5, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 3, 2024.
Posting Requirements-List of Employees

“The operation did not have a list of employees posted.”

Rule 747.401(a)(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2024.

Dec 19, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

Maintenance Procedures for Active Play Space - Inspect Daily

“None of the caregivers had inspected the outside playground area on Monday before the children went outside to play. This was corrected at inspection as the daily grounds inspection had been completed for Tuesday.”

Rule 747.4407(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2023.
Personnel Records - Dates of Employment

“Two caregivers did not have documentation of their first date of employment in their personnel files. This was corrected at inspection when the primary caregiver filled out the employment dates for both caregivers.”

Rule 747.901(1). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2023.

2 deficiencies older than three years

Jan 10, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Special topics for children under 24 months

“During the inspection the provider did not have documentation of the required safe sleep trainings being completed within the required time frame.”

Rule 747.1309(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 20, 2023.
Primary Caregiver Annual Training - Required Special Topics without specific hours

“During the inspection the provider did not have the required annual no clock hour trainings.”

Rule 747.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 20, 2023.

All 6 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Jun 23, 2026	Inspection	4 deficiencies cited
Sep 15, 2025	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Nov 21, 2024	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Dec 19, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Jan 10, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Mar 7, 2022	Inspection	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Nov 30, 2001.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 12 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 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 .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 5 child care providers in Falls County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 10.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

6 of the 5 in Falls County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Marlin Headstart Center Eoac	8
Bj’s Tiny Tots Daycare	6
Tiny Tots Infant House	17
Mother Goose Home Day Care This child care provider	10
Ashlyn Nutt	Not given
Tracy Leigh Ellison	Not given
Bright Futures	3

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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