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Kid’s Smile Day Care

A licensed child care center in Brownsville, Texas 78521

3154 Lima St, Brownsville, Texas 78521. (956) 542-5804.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 198 child care providers in Cameron County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 29, 2026: outcome pending.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

15 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 9, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Sanitize Tables Tops, Furniture and Similar Equipment

    “The sink in the restroom is dusty.”

    Rule 746.3407(11). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 13, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2025.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The most recent fire inspection was conducted on 04/09/2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “One file reviewed does not include the health statement. The child has been enrolled for more than 12 months.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2025.

Jan 12, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “RE-CITE: Staff needs to update the expired first aid and CPR training. Expired on April 2020.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 17, 2024.

Dec 27, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “RE-CITE: Staff needs to update the expired first aid and CPR training. Expired on April 2020.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “RE-CITE: Verification of training hours for staff were not available for review at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2024.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “RE-CITE: Annual certification was not available for review at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2024.

Dec 18, 2023: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “Reviewed staff training: one staff needs to update the expired first aid and CPR training. Expired on April 2020.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “Annual health inspection was not current. Last updated on 10/22/23.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2024. Correction verified: May 14, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “Out of the staff files reviewed, 1 caregiver had no verification of training hours.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “There were no training hours available for review.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “Annual certification was not available for review at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Operating Times

    “Operational handbook was not available during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “One of Four files reviewed was missing: health statement.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “A staff does not have a file available for review at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 22, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Jan 12, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The most recent fire inspection was conducted on 2/11/2021.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 3, 2023.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The most recent fire drill was conducted on 11/1/2022.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 17, 2023.

Jan 13, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - Pre-service Training

    “Training hours were completed but not within the training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2022.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “The CPR/FA certification expired in April 2020.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 29, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Nov 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 9, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Oct 11, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 12, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 27, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Dec 18, 2023Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Jan 12, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 13, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 31, 2002.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 40 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 Oct 31, 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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 15.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kid’s Smile Day Care This child care provider15
D J Lerma Head Start Child Development Center0
Kidzland Learning Center2
Small World Educational Center2
Creative Minds Learning Center1
Alphabet Playhouse Early Childhood Center, LLC1
Little Mermaid Day Care Center2
Lincoln Park School Day Care Center3
The Texas Christian Preschool6
Giggles & Wiggles Daycare3
DBA: Kinder Fun Creative Learning Center2
Felipe R. Perez Head Start Child Development3
Juggi’s Child Care Inc.9

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 2, 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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