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The Apple Tree Daycare, Inc.

A licensed child care center in Edinburg, Texas 78541

201 E Lovett St, Edinburg, Texas 78541. (956) 383-6203.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 15, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information, at the inspection on Oct 17, 2025

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 Mar 17, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

12 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 29, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Crib Mattress Cover - Designed for Use in Size and Type of Crib

    “Two crib mattresses had a vinyl cover to cover the torn mattresses.”

    Rule 746.2415(c)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “A personnel record for one staff and training records for a director were not available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

Oct 17, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “There was no medical information for the children who are transported from school to the childcare operation. Corrected at Inspection: The information was placed in the binders.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2025.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “There was no current infant feeding instructions for an infant. The last one obtained was on 8/01/25.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 20, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2025.

Apr 1, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Recite: There was an electrical outlet without a cover plate in a classroom used by a group of children. The ceiling tile with a water stain in a classroom was replaced during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2025.

Mar 17, 2025: inspection2 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

    “Three infants were asleep in a swing and were covered with a blanket.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 1, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There was an electrical outlet without a cover plate in a classroom used by a group of children. There was a ceiling tile with a water stain in a classroom.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 19, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 1, 2025.

Oct 23, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

    “A caregiver working with children younger than 24months is missing SIDS/SBS training.”

    Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2024.

  • Food Service and Preparation Requirement - Safe and Sanitary

    “A can of expired peaches from 2023 was observed. *This was corrected at inspection when the can was thrown.”

    Rule 746.3317. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “5 out of 10 childrens records reviewed are missing an emergency contact other than a parent.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 31, 2024.

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

    “2 out of 10 staff files reviewed are missing abuse and neglect training.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2024.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “4 out of 10 children’s records are missing the following: Child 1) Hearing and Vision Screening Child 2) Health care Provider Statement, Immunization Records Child 3) Healthcare Provider Statement Child 4) Immunization Records”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 31, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 7, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Television was in use in the toddler classroom. There were two children under the age of 2 years old watching the screen. NOTE: Television was turned off and caregiver transitioned to a planned activity.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 7, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 4, 2023.

Jan 10, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety - Televisions Anchored to Prevent Tip Over

    “A Television observed in the Pre-k classroom was observed within reach of children and was not anchored. NOTE: Television was removed from the area and placed out of reach of children.”

    Rule 746.3701(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2022.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Stationary Equipment

    “Three stationary equipment were overlapping use zones in the playground area.”

    Rule 746.4803. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Immunization records for 3 out of 10 children reviewed were not up to date in the files present during inspection.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2022.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 15, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Sep 29, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 28, 2026Report to the stateOutcome pending
Oct 29, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 1, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 17, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 14, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 23, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Nov 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 7, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 10, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 20, 2011.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 165 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.
  • 2 reports 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 12.
Source:

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

12 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Apple Tree Daycare, Inc. This child care provider12
Little Steps Daycare1
Sunrise Learning Center6
Children’s Depot LLC2
Little Leaders Center6
Angel Wings Learning Center, LLC3
Martha Barrios De CantuNot given
Karina Salinas3
Umos Mshs Edinburg Center6
Innovacare Learning Center, LLC8
Smart Start Learning Center11
Lovely Rainbow Learning Center LLC16
Melissa’s Learning Center LLC1

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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