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A licensed child care center in Garland, Texas 75043

720 Meadowcreek Ln, Garland, Texas 75043. (972) 270-5556.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 12, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Using Harsh, Abusive or Profane Language, at the report to the state on Aug 22, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Apr 24, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

12 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.

Aug 22, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Harsh, Abusive or Profane Language

    “This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation. A caregiver used inappropriate language toward children.”

    Rule 746.2805(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 16, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 23, 2025.

  • Discipline - Teaches Acceptable Behavior and Self-control

    “A caregiver did not maintain self-control when a child was crying. The caregiver moved the child from one area to another, which resulted in a bruise on the child.”

    Rule 746.2803(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 16, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 23, 2025.

Mar 10, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - No Overlap

    “The use zones for two slides on the older students playground is overlapping.”

    Rule 746.4805(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 4, 2025.

Apr 24, 2024: inspection9 deficiencies

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

    “The operation did not have an annual fire inspection completed.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2024. Correction verified: May 13, 2024.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “The driver did not have the required 2 hours of training.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2024. Correction verified: May 13, 2024.

  • Infant Care Area - Separate from Older Children

    “The operatoin had a 24 month old child in the same classroom.”

    Rule 746.2403(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The operation had several plastic toys with broken ends that presents a safe hazard to children in care. The operation threw away all broken items.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2024.

  • Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met

    “There were 5 children in the infant room during nap time. The ratio for infants remain 4/1. The operation is not allowed to reducing during nap time for infants.”

    Rule 746.1613(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2024.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “An infant in care did not have an infant feeding schedule.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Several children records were incomplete.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “The operation did not have current fire drills recorded.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Several staff records were incomplete.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2024. Correction verified: May 15, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Jul 20, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness

    “This rule was investigated with regard to an investigation and a deficiency was found. Based on the information gathered, it was determined that the operation does have a staff person with a confirmed case of COVID-19 and the operation did not report this to Child Care Regulation as required.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 21, 2022.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 23, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 12, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 10, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 24, 2024Inspection9 deficiencies cited
Jun 22, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 20, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 6, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 29, 2005.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 101 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.
  • 4 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 12.
Source:

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

12 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
A Creative Focus Learning Center This child care provider12
Soimone Johnson0
For Kids Only Child Learning Center3
New World United Methodist Dcc0
Priceless Childcare and Learning Center2
Maria AngonNot given
Poised for Success Learning Academy1
Ace Kids Academy10
Angel’s Little Palace0
Lisa Patterson0
Divine Joy1
Datron HoustonNot given
Latonja Raoof0

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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