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Karla Garcia

A registered child care home in Garland, Texas 75041

3032 Bonita Dr, Garland, Texas 75041. (469) 855-7638.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 15, 2025: 1 deficiency cited.

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 Oct 30, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Pool Inaccessible to Children by Wall, Fence or Other Barrier at Least 4’ High, at the inspection on Oct 30, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

9 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.

Jul 15, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

    “Four children records were reviewed and lacked the release person number and health statements.”

    Rule 747.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2025.

Nov 14, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Sanitation of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “During the inspection there was a gap in the fence/barrier with the pool.”

    Rule 747.3203. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

Oct 30, 2024: inspection7 deficiencies

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

    “The primary caregiver cared for children before receiving a background check determination of Eligible, Provisional Eligibility with Conditions, or Eligible with Conditions.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2024.

  • Pool Inaccessible to Children by Wall, Fence or Other Barrier at Least 4’ High

    “At the time of the inspection, the operation’s portable fence was not up around the pool.”

    Rule 747.4807(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - Registered Child Care Home

    “At the time of the inspection there were 8 children in care from 0 to 4 years old.”

    Rule 747.1701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Safety - Air Conditioners, Fans, Heaters Safeguarded

    “At the time of the inspection, the air conditioner unit outside did not have a safeguard around it making it inaccessible to children.”

    Rule 747.3501(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2024.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

    “Two out of four children records evaluated, did not have current immunization information or a health statement.”

    Rule 747.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

    “At the time of the inspection, the primary caregiver did not have current training for caring for children younger than 24 months and required content training.”

    Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Pet Vaccinations

    “At the time of the inspection, the provider’s pet did not have current vaccination information.”

    Rule 747.801(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2024.

10 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Parental Notification of Safe Sleeping Deficiency

    “The operation had not notified parents of sleep safe deficiency.”

    Rule 747.307(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 24, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2023.

Jan 25, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “An infant was sleep in a restrictive device (carseat).”

    Rule 747.2326. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 25, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2023.

Dec 21, 2022: inspection8 deficiencies

  • AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age

    “AN infant had a blanket nad teddybear in the crib during naptime.”

    Rule 747.2315(b). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2023.

  • Fence Gates Around Swimming Pool - Self-closing/ Self-latching/Locked

    “The area leading to the pool did not have a closed fence.”

    Rule 747.4807(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 2, 2023.

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Drinking Water Available and Served

    “The operation did not serve water at lunchtime. Water was provided.”

    Rule 747.3101(f). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 21, 2022.

  • Animals at Center - Documentation of Vaccinations

    “The operation did not have current vaccination records for the family dog.”

    Rule 747.3703(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not have a record of fire drills for the year.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Parents’ Phone Numbers

    “Several children’s records did not have emergency contact information completed.”

    Rule 747.605(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2023.

  • Primary Caregiver Annual Training -30 Hours Required

    “The primary caregiver did not have 30 hours of training.”

    Rule 747.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Infant Feeding Instructions

    “An infant ,that is not on table food, did not have infant feeding form on file signed by the parents.”

    Rule 747.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2023.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 15, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 30, 2024Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Feb 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 25, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 21, 2022Inspection8 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Registered Child-Care Home, permit issued May 20, 2009.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 8 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Willis Early Learning Center0
Rose ZolatashNot given
Chantell BallNot given
Lake Cities Montessori School3
Alicia KlementNot given
Centerville Learning Center3
Infant Center0
Skyrise School of Garland3
Karla Garcia This child care provider9
Saint Christopher Montessori11
Legacy Kids Academy0
Hai Thi Vo1

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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