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Creativity Little Hands

A licensed child care home in Katy, Texas 77449

19118 Plantain Dr, Katy, Texas 77449. (832) 576-8432.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 7, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Aug 26, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Apr 13, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Caregivers- Pediatric First-Aid and Pediatric CPR

    “The primary caregiver’s first aid/CPR certificate expired on 04/13/2026.”

    Rule 747.1303(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2026.

Aug 26, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A household member did not have the eligibility status. The household member completed the FBI fingerprints.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 13, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - School Information for School-age Child

    “One child’s record did not have the school information.”

    Rule 747.605(14). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 28, 2024.

12 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 28, 2023: inspection6 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A person, who is residing temporarily at the home, did not have a background check submitted.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 28, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2023.

  • Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

    “The infants were sitting in a restrictive device the duration of outdoor play which was more than that 15 minutes. Even though, the infants were fed a snack outdoors, they were not removed off of the restrictive devices.”

    Rule 747.2317(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 30, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 13, 2023.

  • Prohibited Equipment - Rings,Trapeze Bars, Free-Swinging Ropes

    “The new outdoor play structure had trapeze bars on a long chain. This was removed from the children’s reach, so, they could not use it during the inspection.”

    Rule 747.4403(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 28, 2023.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides

    “The use zone for the slide was 3’8”.”

    Rule 747.4605(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2023.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “The television was on at arrival. It was turned on again during transition of activities. There were 4 infants in care.”

    Rule 747.2105(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 13, 2023.

  • Minimum Qualifications for Assistant Caregiver - Affidavit

    “The assistant caregiver’s file did not have the notarized affidavit.”

    Rule 747.1207(6). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2023.

Aug 30, 2022: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Release Information

    “There were 2 children’s records that did not have the release information filled out.”

    Rule 747.605(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - Licensed Child Care Home

    “There were 10 children in care with one substitute caregiver. The ages of the children were 1-7 months, 2-15 months, 4-2 years, 1-3 years, and 2-4 years old. The maximum number of children with 3 infants in care is 7 children to 1 caregiver.”

    Rule 747.1801. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 2, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “There were items, such as pest control and insect repellent, that were accessible to the children in the outdoor play area.”

    Rule 747.3501. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “There were 4 children with no emergency contact information on the admission form.”

    Rule 747.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Two siblings shared the same admission form.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two children’s records did not have the updated immunization record on file.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 13, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 3, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2023Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Sep 16, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 30, 2022Inspection6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued May 13, 2009.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 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.
  • 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 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 3.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Creativity Little Hands This child care provider3
Texas Kids Learning Center4
Mary Morales Child Care Home7
Ha Le0
Bertha Valdes3
Holy Covenant Cdc0
Wendy Mazariego3
Kathleen Dufour0
Kinder Shine Academy12
Texas Kids Childcare19
Rayshell ButlerNot given
Golbow Elementary YMCA0
Svitlana ZievakinaNot given

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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