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Maribel Barrera

A registered child care home in Del Rio, Texas 78840

108 N Frank St, Del Rio, Texas 78840. (830) 469-2499.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

17 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 18 child care providers in Val Verde County had 8.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 8, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Oct 9, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Registered Family Home Required Fees, at the assessment on Jul 3, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 29, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - Registered Child Care Home

    “The operation was caring for five infants with one caregiver making the operation out of ratio by one infant. The was corrected at inspection when one infant left.”

    Rule 747.1701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 29, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Non-walking

    “One of four infant children under twelve months did not have a crib assigned to them.”

    Rule 747.2305(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

Oct 9, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “One child did not have a signature from parent or guardian for authorization for emergency medical attention.”

    Rule 747.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

  • Health Statement on File

    “Two of four children did not have a health statement on file on the admission form.”

    Rule 747.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “The primary caregiver did not have a notarized affidavit on file.”

    Rule 747.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2025.

Jul 3, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Registered Family Home Required Fees

    “The operation has been delinquent in payment of the background check fee since 12/02/24.”

    Rule 745.507. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 11, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2025.

Oct 23, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - Registered Child Care Home

    “The operation were out of ratio by 1 child. The operation sent one child home and were in ratio.”

    Rule 747.1701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2024.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, Relocation and Sheltering Procedures

    “The center did not have an emergency relocation diagram.”

    Rule 747.5003(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The center had not conducted a fire drill in the month of September 2024.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 24, 2024.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “3 children under 2 years old were in room faced towards screen that was on. This was corrected at inspection when caregiver turned off the screen.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

Nov 20, 2023: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “The caregiver did not wash a child’s hands after they changed their diaper.”

    Rule 747.3213(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Safe Sleep for Infants

    “The operational policies does not have the safe sleep policy.”

    Rule 747.501(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Two out of six children’s records reviewed are lacking the phone number and address for the emergency contact person.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2023.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Children under the age of two were observed watching televsion.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies does not have the indoor/outdoor active play requirements.”

    Rule 747.501(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2023.

  • Parent’s Rights

    “The provider has not provided the parents with the Parent’s Rights form.”

    Rule HRC 42.04271. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2023.

  • Required Health Statement

    “Three out of six children’s files reviewed were lacking the doctor information under the health statement.”

    Rule 747.611(a). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 17, 2021: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information-Completed Food Allergy Emergency Plan

    “A child with a peanut allergy did not have an emergency food allergy plan filled out in their file.”

    Rule 747.605(16). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 24, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 24, 2021.

  • Background Check Validation - Once a year listed family homes, licensed, and registered child care homes must validate list of subjects

    “The provider last validated the employee list on 01/13/2019.”

    Rule 745.651(2)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 26, 2021.

  • Required Admission Information - Date of Admission

    “Three out of six children’s records reviewed did not have the date of admission. Corrected at Inspection: The dates of admissions were added to the child admission form.”

    Rule 747.605(3). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2021.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 29, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 9, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 3, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Nov 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Nov 20, 2023Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Nov 17, 2021Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued Dec 23, 2003.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 18 child care providers in Val Verde County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 17.
Source:

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

12 of the 18 in Val Verde County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Maribel Barrera This child care provider17
Creative Learning Educational Childcare4
J.d.’s Academy3
Kids Zone Preschool & Youth Center, LLC19
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc.10
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc. #212
The Learning Express Center LLC #14
Mimi’s Learning Center2
Kid’s Playhouse Child Care and Learning Center9
Sunnyside Childcare & Academy LLC15
Kids R Kids Daycare11
Emmazing Kids Childcare & Learning Center9
Bright Beginnings Daycare2

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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