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Cuddlebugs Day Care

A licensed child care center in Ballinger, Texas 76821

1303 Broad Ave, Ballinger, Texas 76821. (325) 365-2707.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 6 child care providers in Runnels County had 1.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 20, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 20, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not practice or document a fire drill in July and has not yet practiced or documented a fire drill in August.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 20, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 20, 2026.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “A review of childrens records indicated the operation is not receiving a statement of health from health care professionals when enrolling children in care. Four children were missing health statements.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 8, 2026.

Oct 17, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • AP Parental Communication - Injury Requires Treatment by Health Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “It was determined the operation failed to notify the parent promptly after the child was injured in care.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2025.

Sep 17, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “One caregiver was missing documentation of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 24, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 27, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The center was lacking an updated children’s product safety certification.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies were lacking information regarding the promotion of indoor and outdoor activities.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2022.

Feb 11, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “An infant was observed to be sleeping in a bouncer. Child was placed in a play yard at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2426. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2022.

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment - Crib for Each Non-walking Infant Younger Than 12 Months of Age

    “Two infants were observed sleeping on the floor with boppy pillows rather than in a crib. Infants were place in play yards at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2405(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 20, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 17, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 17, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 27, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 11, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 25, 2007.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 21 children.
Source:

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.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 6 child care providers in Runnels County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 4.
Source:

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

6 of the 6 in Runnels County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Nalda Keesee Naldas Child Care2
Tamela KingNot given
Lil’ Bearcats Daycare1
Cuddlebugs Day Care This child care provider4
Smart Start Daycare1
Kathryn Suzanne House1
Winters Child Development Center1

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 Oct 24, 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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