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Kuddles & Kisses Early Childhood Center LLC

A licensed child care center in Dallas, Texas 75237

4041 W Wheatland Rd Ste 128, Dallas, Texas 75237. (214) 796-7103.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 22, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Jun 20, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Jun 20, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Jun 20, 2025

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

14 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

14 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.

May 12, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two out of six children did not have up to date shot records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: May 18, 2026.

Jun 20, 2025: inspection10 deficiencies
  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The operational policies were missing the following items: duration for outdoor play 501(a)(18)(B), Safe Sleep for Infants 12 Months and Younger 501(a)(9), Parents’ right to enter the building 501(20), Emergency Preparedness Plans 501(a)(24).”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 23, 2025.

  • Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children

    “During the monitoring visit, the chemical bottles used for cleaning were not labeled.”

    Rule 746.3407(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Two out of six children did not have the emergency medical authorization available for review. The application was missing the third page.”

    Rule 746.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

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

    “During the monitoring visit, the director’s transportation training certificate available for review was expired.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “During the monitoring visit, the caregiver changed two children in the infant/toddler classroom without using gloves or washing hands after diaper changing. After speaking with the director, the caregiver washed their hands after diapering.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “During the monitoring visit, the caregiver in the infant/toddler classroom did not handwash two children’s hands after diaper changing. After speaking with the director, the caregiver started to wash each child’s hand after diapering.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Two out of six children did not have the special care statement available for review. The application was missing the third page.”

    Rule 746.605(12). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One out of six children did not have up-to-date immunization records available for review during the monitoring visit.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training - 1 hour in Prevention, Recognition and Reporting of child maltreatment

    “During the monitoring visit, one caregiver did not have the child maltreatment training certificate available for review.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “Two out of six children did not have the health care information available for review. The application was missing the third page.”

    Rule 746.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2025.

May 9, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup

    “During the visit, a 13-month-old infant was asleep in a playpen with a bottle in the mouth during nap time. The caregiver removed the bottle upon request during the visit.”

    Rule 746.2419(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2025. Correction verified: May 15, 2025.

Aug 14, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “During the monitoring visit, the transportation vehicle did not have a fire extinguisher.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 21, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2024.

  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “During the monitoring visit, fourteen children did not wash their hands in the classroom. The children’s ages ranged from 17 months to 2 years of age. A caregiver did not wash a child’s hands after diapering during the monitoring visit.”

    Rule 746.3417(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 15, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Feb 18, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “Based on the information provided by the DFPS investigator, a caregiver had access to children in care without a cleared background on file.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 10, 2022. Correction verified: May 11, 2022.

All 22 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 10, 2026Report to the stateOutcome pending
May 12, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2025Inspection10 deficiencies cited
May 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 8, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 14, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 2, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 24, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 18, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 11, 2011.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 51 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.
  • 7 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
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 14.
Source:

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

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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