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Unity Child Care

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77038

827 Turney Dr, Houston, Texas 77038. (281) 999-3271.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 6, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Dec 29, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Basic Requirements for Infants - Free from Choking Objects That May Cause Choking in Infants or Toddlers, at the inspection on Dec 29, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

14 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

14 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.

Jan 6, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Requirements for Swings - Not Attached to a Composite Structure

    “A composite structure with swings is being used on the playground.”

    Rule 746.4701(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

Dec 29, 2025: inspection11 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    The inspectors’ words, 155 words

    “The operational policies is lacking the following information: 1. A suspension and expulsion policy. 2. Safe sleep policy for infants 12 months and younger. 3. The type of indoor and outdoor activities the children will participate in. 4. The setting of indoor and outdoor physical activities. 5. The criteria used when weather prevents outdoor play. 6. The plan for physical activity when outdoor play is limited. 7. Inform mother’s of a comfortable place to breastfeed and they have the right to provide breast milk. 8. Annual staff training requirements in child abuse and neglect. 9. Steps the center will take to increase staff and parent awareness and prevention techniques regarding child abuse and neglect. 10. Community organizations the center will partner with. 11. Actions a parent of a ch8ild who is a victim of abuse should take to obtain assistance. 12. Staff vaccination policy. 13. Inform parents the center is in a gang free zone.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Basic Requirements for Infants - Free from Choking Objects That May Cause Choking in Infants or Toddlers

    “Two children were observed napping with strings attached to their pacifiers. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2401(6). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Infant Daily Report - Times and Amount of Food

    “The amount of food eaten is not being documented on the daily report sheet. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2431(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The handle to the passenger door of one van is missing.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident

    “All of the booster and sfaety seats on both vehicles used for transportation are expired.”

    Rule 746.5607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 31, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Of the 6 children’s records evaluated, 3 lacked the requirdd infformation regarding special needs.”

    Rule 746.605(12). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Health Statement parent sign - Dated within past yr, name/address health care professional, states child can participate. Follow by signed statement

    “Of the 6 children’s records evaluated, 1 lacked a parent signed health statement that includes the name and address of the doctor who examined the child within the last 12 months.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Parent right to receive information access compliance history

    “Parents have not been provided with the correct website to review the center’s compliance history online.”

    Rule 746.521(5)(B). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Parent right to receive contact information for CCR

    “Parents have not been pr]provided with the correct contact information for the local Child Care Regulation Office.”

    Rule 746.521(7). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Of the 6 personnel records evaluated, 2 lacked the pre-employment affidavit. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Of the 6 children’s records evaluated, 1 lacked a health statement from a health care professional.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

Jan 21, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The number of employees leaving employment was not reported by the deadline.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2025.

Jan 3, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “One caregiver did not have current tranining in pediatric First Aid/CPR.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2024.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 6, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 29, 2025Inspection11 deficiencies cited
Jan 21, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 11, 2002.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 49 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 14.
Source:

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Laughter’s Childcare Center9
Rina’s Childcare21
Bambini Daycare10
2 Unique Kids Learning Academy16
Jacquelene WardsworthNot given
Francisca AndinoNot given
Latonya Denise StewartNot given
Eternity Christian Childcare6
Alpha Academy18
Unity Child Care This child care provider14
Bright Stars Cdc13
Touch of Class Day Care18

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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