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Cherished Dreams Daycare

A licensed child care center in Nocona, Texas 76255

105 Herring St, Nocona, Texas 76255. (940) 825-7182.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 7 child care providers in Montague County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on May 11, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit, at the inspection on May 11, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device, at the inspection on May 27, 2025

Rated High by Texas: No Swaddling of Infant Unless Completed Sleep Exception Form on File, at the inspection on May 27, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

6 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.

May 11, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “The first aid kit in the van was expired.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

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

    “Employee files were missing transportation safety training.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

Jun 10, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup

    “During a follow-up inspection, three infants were found sleeping with bottles in their beds.”

    Rule 746.2419(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2025.

May 27, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “During a monitoring inspection, an infant was found to be sleeping swaddled in a restrictive device.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 10, 2025.

  • No Swaddling of Infant Unless Completed Sleep Exception Form on File

    “During a monitoring inspection, an infant was found to be sleeping swaddled in a restrictive device.”

    Rule 746.2428. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 10, 2025.

Jun 5, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “During a children’s records audit, a child’s file was missing a health statement from a medical professional stating that they were healthy enough to attend daycare.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 14, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 14, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 18, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

    “During nap time, a school-age special needs child was found using an electronic tablet. The requirement for screen time to not be used during nap or rest times was discussed and this was corrected at inspection when the child began playing with a quiet activity instead.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 18, 2023.

Jul 29, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

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

    “A caregiver was found to have less than the required 24 hours of annual training for their previous training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A classroom with six infants had only one caregiver for a time period until another caregiver came in to assist. Before I left two babies were picked up by their parent which brought the total to four infants from that point on.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 29, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2022.

  • Activities for Infants - Outdoor Play Daily

    “The infant class schedule did not include outdoor activity time. I questioned the caregiver and they confirmed that infants are not routinely taken outdoors.”

    Rule 746.2417(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 30, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Two children’s records were found to be missing a health authorization from a medical professional.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 11, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 4, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 10, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 27, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 5, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 15, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 18, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 29, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 2, 2007.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 51 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.
  • 3 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 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 7 child care providers in Montague County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
Source:

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

6 of the 7 in Montague County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Scholars2
Cherished Dreams Daycare This child care provider6
Machelle’s Day Care7
Hang the Moon7
Smarty Pants Preschool, Inc.1
Happy Hearts Learning Center0
Little Learning Ranch0

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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