Westside Community Dcc
A licensed child care center in Big Spring, Texas 79720
2300 Simler Big Spring Ind Par Bldg 449, Big Spring, Texas 79720. (432) 263-7841.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.
- 11 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Howard County: 3.5
- 5 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 9 inspections on record
- 2-Star Texas Rising Star rating
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?
11 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 8 child care providers in Howard County had 3.5.
9 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 15, 2025: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Required Immunizations, at the inspection on Jan 23, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for, at the inspection on Jun 10, 2024
Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the inspection on Jun 10, 2024
2 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
11 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
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| 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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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.
Jan 23, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
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Required Immunizations
“Four children did not have a current record of immunizations. Two children did not have any record and two children were missing the 4th and 3rd set of immunizations for Dtap, Hib, Hep A, and PCV.”
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Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)
“Two new employees hired after September 2023 do not have a preemployment affidavit in their file.”
Jun 10, 2024: inspection9 deficiencies
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
“Two caregivers did not know how many children were in the room. One care giver stated she had six children but did not know how many children total in the napping room. Another caregiver stated there were six children in her care but seven were counted.”
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A caregiver allowed the group of seven 18m - 24m children to walk without supervision from the napping room to their classroom. Another two or three year old walked from the napping room to the pre-k three room without supervision. A caregiver left the group of seven school age children alone in the classroom to put away a tray in the kitchen.”
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Basic Requirements for Infants - Free from Choking Objects That May Cause Choking in Infants or Toddlers
“An infant under two months, able to roll self, was sleeping in the crib face down with a bib around the neck.”
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Required Immunizations
“Two children do not have current immunizations. A 16 month old has a reocord of only the first immunizations. A 12 month old infant only has a record of one immunization.”
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Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training
“A caregiver left alone with children, hired August 18, 2021, and without two years caregiver experience did not have 24 hours preservice training, 24 hours annual training for the 1rst year 2021 - 2022, nor 24 hours annual training for the second year 2022 - 2023.”
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Annual Sanitation Inspection
“The health inspection is past due as of March 2024.”
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Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - No Overlap
“Two slide exit use zones overlap on the pre-k playground, posing a risk of injury to children.”
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Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less
“Loose-fill gravel on the pre-k playground, around slide fall zones and ends of slides is less than one inch deep. the highest slide is five feet. The smaler slide is three feet high.”
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Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
“A 3-month old infant not yet on table food does not have current writen feeding instructions signed by the parent. The last update was april22, 2024.”
3 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 19, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies
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Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required
“One caregiver and the director did not have current training in SIDS, Shaken baby syndrome, and early childhood brain development. One expired June 2023 and the other on May 2023.”
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CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based
“A caregiver left alone with children did not have current certification in CPR/first aid. Expired 8/19/23.”
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Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current
“Two children in care did not have current record of immunizations. They are missing their 12m - 18 month immunizations. One child did not have a record of immunizations.”
All 10 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 23, 2025 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Inspection | 9 deficiencies cited |
| May 30, 2024 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 5, 1987.
- Its permit has conditions.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 85 children.
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.
- 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 8 child care providers in Howard County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3.5; this one had 11.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Big Spring Family YMCA | 1 |
| Bauer School Readiness Academy | 3 |
| Howard Cottage (Howard College Child Development Center) | 2 |
| Big Spring YMCA Kids Academy | 5 |
| Jhs Texas Operations LLC DBA Jack & Jill School Child Care C | 11 |
| Lisa Hooper | Not given |
| New Hope Christian School | 4 |
| Little Learners Christian Daycare | 1 |
| Westside Community Dcc This child care provider | 11 |
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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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).
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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).
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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).
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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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