Loretta Johnson

A licensed child care home in Austin, Texas 78744

4811 Cottonwood St, Austin, Texas 78744. (512) 524-5651.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Travis County: 3
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
7 inspections on record
4-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 624 child care providers in Travis County had 3.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 26, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device - Remove the infant from the device and place the infant in a crib as soon as possible, at the inspection on May 8, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023											Nov	Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

May 8, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device - Remove the infant from the device and place the infant in a crib as soon as possible

“At inspection, an infant was observed asleep in a swing. The infant was removed and placed in a crib at inspection.”

Rule 747.2326(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2025. Correction verified: May 19, 2025.
Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Separate from Food and Inaccessible

“At inspection, a bottle of Clorox was in an area, accessible to children in care. This was corrected at inspection when the Clorox bottle was removed and stored.”

Rule 747.3203(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2025.
Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

“At inspection, a trash can containing garbage was not covered. This was corrected at inspection when the garbage can, was covered.”

Rule 747.3203(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2025.
Children’s Products- Annual Certification

“At inspection, the Consumer Product Safety Recall was not certified for 2025.”

Rule 747.3935(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2025. Correction verified: May 19, 2025.
Records Maintained and Made Available - Infant Feeding Instructions

“At inspection, the infant feeding schedule was not accessible by CCR Inspector.”

Rule 747.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2025. Correction verified: May 19, 2025.
Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

“At inspection, trainings were not accessible for review by CCR.”

Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2025. Correction verified: May 8, 2025.

Jun 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

“The training certificates for one caregiver were not available to review.”

Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 9, 2024.

7 deficiencies older than three years

Jul 5, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

“There were 2 individuals present in the household that did not have clear and active background checks.”

Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 5, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 3, 2023.
Required Immunizations

“A 2 1/2 year old child was missing his fourth Immunization on his record. The caregiver called the child’s mother and will email it to us when she brings the updated record.”

Rule 747.613(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 3, 2023.

Jul 28, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

Training Requirements for Caregivers - 15 hours Annual Training

“One assistant caregiver did not have documentation of completing all 15 hours of annual training for the last completed training year.”

Rule 747.1303(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2022.
Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

“Three infants were missing infant feedings schedules.”

Rule 747.2321(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 9, 2022.
Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

“The parent handbook did not have a section on the promotion of physical activity.”

Rule 747.501(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 1, 2022.
Children’s Records - Health Statement

“One child did not have a health statement on file.”

Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2022.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“One child was missing an immunization record.”

Rule 747.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2022.

All 7 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Mar 26, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
May 19, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
May 8, 2025	Inspection	6 deficiencies cited
Jun 10, 2024	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Aug 3, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Jul 5, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Jul 28, 2022	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Oct 12, 2009.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 624 child care providers in Travis County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 7.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 624 in Travis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Loretta Johnson This child care provider	7
Dora Gallegos	6
Sunrise Academy II	7
Uphaus YMCA	4
Bilingual Childcare	11
Uphaus Child Development Center	2
Eva Nohemy Padilla Ruiz	2
Perez Eac YMCA	1
Little Explorers Childcare	2
Kindercare at Bergstrom Tech	3
Jemie Johnson Vaughn	2
Rainbow Scholars Academy LLC	2
Del Valle Isd South Child Development Center	0

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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