Imagination Island

Licensed Center

Provider details

City / County / ZIP: Houston / Harris / 77026
Street address: 4003 Kelley St Ste C
Phone: (832) 830-5745
Capacity: 41
Ages served: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
Hours / Days: 06:30 AM-06:00 PM / Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat
Permit type: Full Permit
Permit issued: July 29, 2021
Operation status:: Active
Corrective action: HHSC lists: No
Adverse action: HHSC lists: No
Temporarily closed: HHSC lists: No

Corrective action means HHSC requires steps to address compliance concerns; see the official HHSC record for details.

Adverse action means HHSC has taken enforcement action affecting an operation’s permit or ability to operate; see the official HHSC record for details.

Plain-English summary of cited deficiencies

State records list 19 cited deficiencies dated June 21, 2024 to May 11, 2026 (8 Medium High, 8 Medium, 1 Medium Low, 2 Low risk). Correction status: 0 corrected at inspection, 19 with a correction date recorded, 0 with no correction date recorded.

Medium High risk · Annual Sanitation Inspection (746.3401(a))
Cited May 11, 2026 (correction date recorded: May 25, 2026; correction verified May 19, 2026).
What the record describes: The sanitation inspection on file expired on 3/23/26.
Medium High risk · Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering (746.3417(3))
Cited May 11, 2026 (correction date recorded: May 11, 2026; correction verified May 20, 2026).
What the record describes: A child did not wash their hands with soap and water after a diaper change.
Medium High risk · Pest Extermination (746.3427)
Cited May 11, 2026 (correction date recorded: May 18, 2026; correction verified May 19, 2026); June 21, 2024 (correction date recorded: July 5, 2024; correction verified July 1, 2024; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: Narratives describe live roaches inside the operation.
Medium High risk · Safety - Areas Free From Hazards (746.3701)
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 13, 2025; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: The playground was overgrown with vines and weeds and needed maintenance.
Medium High risk · Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal (746.5101(b))
Cited June 25, 2024 (correction date recorded: July 5, 2024; correction verified July 9, 2024; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: The operation’s last fire inspection was completed on 3/31/23.
Medium High risk · Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures (746.5202(1))
Cited June 25, 2024 (correction date recorded: July 2, 2024; correction verified June 26, 2024).
What the record describes: The operation did not have a copy of its emergency preparedness plan.
Medium High risk · Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface (746.3503(a))
Cited June 21, 2024 (correction date recorded: June 28, 2024; correction verified June 25, 2024; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: The diaper changing table used by the infant caregiver was torn and needed replacing.
Medium risk · Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times (746.2207(c)(4))
Cited May 11, 2026 (correction date recorded: May 11, 2026; correction verified May 20, 2026).
What the record describes: A television was playing a children’s show during nap or rest time.
Medium risk · Background Check Validation - Every 3 months each operation, other than a licensed, registered, or listed home, must validate current list (745.651(2)(A))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 10, 2025; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: The last validation was completed on August 27, 2024.
Medium risk · Children's Records - Immunizations (746.603(a)(4))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 17, 2025; correction verified June 20, 2025).
What the record describes: Immunization records were missing from 2 out of 4 children’s records.
Medium risk · Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights (746.501(a)(20))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 13, 2025).
What the record describes: Policies lacked parents’ rights information covering visits, complaints, record reviews, inspection reports, online compliance history, court orders, regulator contacts, incident video access, policy copies, staff training records and curricula, and exercising rights without retaliation.
Medium risk · Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website (746.501(a)(23))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 13, 2025).
What the record describes: The operational policies lacked instructions for parents to access the minimum standards online and the HHSC website.
Medium risk · Written Operational Policies - Water Activities (746.501(a)(15))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 10, 2025).
What the record describes: The operational policy lacked information about water activities.
Medium risk · Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors (746.801(10))
Cited June 25, 2024 (correction date recorded: July 2, 2024; correction verified June 26, 2024).
What the record describes: The operation had no safety documentation on file for emergency drills, fire extinguishers, or smoke detectors.
Medium risk · Director's Absence - Caregiver in Charge Has Access to All Records (746.1013(a)(3))
Cited June 21, 2024 (correction date recorded: June 21, 2024; correction verified June 25, 2024; technical assistance given).
What the record describes: The caregiver left in charge could not access documentation requested by Licensing for review.
Medium Low risk · Documentation of Training Requirements - Original Training Certification Card or Letter in each Employee's personnel record (746.1329(a))
Cited May 11, 2026 (correction date recorded: May 18, 2026; correction verified May 19, 2026).
What the record describes: The director transported children for field trips and said the 2-hour course was completed in summer 2025, but could not find the certificate.
Low risk · Written Operational Policies - Breastfeeding Provisions (746.501(a)(25))
Cited June 3, 2025 (correction date recorded: June 10, 2025; correction verified June 13, 2025).
What the record describes: The operational policy lacked information about a comfortable breastfeeding space with an adult-sized seat. It also lacked information about parents’ right to breastfeed or provide breast milk while their child was in care.
Low risk · Documentation pediatric CPR-1st aid includes participant's name, training date, training title, trainer's name, length of training (746.1329(c)(1)(A))
Cited June 25, 2024 (correction date recorded: July 2, 2024; correction verified June 26, 2024).
What the record describes: The infant caregiver’s first aid and CPR training certificate was not present at the operation.

Counts, dates, risk levels and correction status come directly from the state data. The plain-English descriptions were written automatically from the inspectors' narratives and checked against them by a second automated reviewer; they cover citations dated October 11, 2023 to October 11, 2026. They may contain errors; the official record is authoritative.

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Summary of the record

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Texas Health and Human Services records list 19 cited deficiencies for Imagination Island in the 3 years before October 10, 2026 (8 Medium High, 8 Medium, 1 Medium Low, 2 Low).

Records list 6 inspections in this window. Most recent inspection: 2026-09-29.

HHSC risk weights of citations
Risk weight	Citations
High	0
Medium High	8
Medium	8
Medium Low	1
Low	2
Unknown	0

HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight from Low to High. A deficiency is a finding that a minimum standard was not met.

Recent citations in the summary window

2026-05-11 · 746.1329(a) · Medium Low

Documentation of Training Requirements - Original Training Certification Card or Letter in each Employee's personnel record

The director transports for field trips and says the 2-hour course was completed in summer of 2025, but could not find the certificate.

Correction date recorded: 2026-05-18

2026-05-11 · 746.2207(c)(4) · Medium

Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

The tv was on with a children's show on during nap time/ rest time. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the caregiver turned off the tv.

Correction date recorded: 2026-05-11

2026-05-11 · 746.3427 · Medium High

Pest Extermination

Live roaches are present inside the operation.

Correction date recorded: 2026-05-18

Full citation history from HHSC (28)

2026-05-11 · 746.3417(3) · Medium High
Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2026-05-11. Correction verified: 2026-05-20.
1 child who had a diaper change did not wash their hands with soap and water. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the caregiver cleaned the child's hands at the hand washing sink.
2026-05-11 · 746.3401(a) · Medium High
Annual Sanitation Inspection
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2026-05-25. Correction verified: 2026-05-19.
The sanitation inspection on file expired 3/23/26.
2026-05-11 · 746.3427 · Medium High
Pest Extermination
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2026-05-18. Correction verified: 2026-05-19.
Live roaches are present inside the operation.
2026-05-11 · 746.2207(c)(4) · Medium
Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2026-05-11. Correction verified: 2026-05-20.
The tv was on with a children's show on during nap time/ rest time. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the caregiver turned off the tv.
2026-05-11 · 746.1329(a) · Medium Low
Documentation of Training Requirements - Original Training Certification Card or Letter in each Employee's personnel record
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2026-05-18. Correction verified: 2026-05-19.
The director transports for field trips and says the 2-hour course was completed in summer of 2025, but could not find the certificate.
2025-06-03 · 746.501(a)(25) · Low
Written Operational Policies - Breastfeeding Provisions
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-13.
Operational policy is missing information on providing a comfortable place with an adult sized seat in your center or within a classroom that enables a mother to breastfeed her child. In addition, your policies must inform parents that they have the right to breastfeed or provide breast milk for their child while in care
2025-06-03 · 746.501(a)(23) · Medium
Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-13.
Operational policies is missing information on Instructions on how a parent may access the: (A) Minimum standards online; and (C) HHSC website.
2025-06-03 · 746.501(a)(15) · Medium
Written Operational Policies - Water Activities
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-10.
The operational policy is missing information on water activities.
2025-06-03 · 746.501(a)(20) · Medium
Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-13.
The center's operational policies is missing information on: (1)Enter and examine your center during its hours of operation without advance notice; (2)File a complaint against your center; (3)Review your center's publicly accessible records ; (4)Review your center's written records concerning the parent's child); (5)Receive from your center: (A)HHSC's inspection reports for your center; and (B)Information regarding how to access your center's compliance history online; (6)Have your center comply with a valid court order signed by a judge that prevents another parent from visiting or removing the parent's child from your center; (7)Be provided with contact information for Child Care Regulation, including the department's name, address, and telephone number; (8)View any video recordings of an alleged incident of abuse or neglect involving the parent's child maintained by your center as long as: (A) Video recordings of the alleged incident are available; (B) The parent is not allowed to retain any portion of the video depicting a child who is not the parent's child; and (C) Your center notifies in writing the parent of any other child captured in the video recording, before allowing the parent to inspect the video recording; (9)Obtain a copy of your center's policies and procedures; (10) Review, upon request of the parent, your: (A) Staff training records; and (B) In-house training curriculum, if any; and (11) Be free from any retaliatory action by your center for exercising any of the parent's rights.
2025-06-03 · 746.603(a)(4) · Medium
Children's Records - Immunizations
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-17. Correction verified: 2025-06-20.
2 out of 4 children records missing a record of immunizations.
2025-06-03 · 746.3701 · Medium High
Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-13.
The playground is overgrown with vines and weeds and in need of maintenance.
2025-06-03 · 745.651(2)(A) · Medium
Background Check Validation - Every 3 months each operation, other than a licensed, registered, or listed home, must validate current list
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-06-10. Correction verified: 2025-06-10.
The last validation was completed on 8/27/2024.
2024-06-25 · 746.1329(c)(1)(A) · Low
Documentation pediatric CPR-1st aid includes participant's name, training date, training title, trainer's name, length of training
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-07-02. Correction verified: 2024-06-26.
The infant caregiver's first aid/ CPR certificat of training is not present at the operation.
2024-06-25 · 746.801(10) · Medium
Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-07-02. Correction verified: 2024-06-26.
The operation does not have on file safety documentation for emergency drills, fire extinguishers, and smoke detectors.
2024-06-25 · 746.5101(b) · Medium High
Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-07-05. Correction verified: 2024-07-09.
The operateion's last fire inspection was completed on 3/31/23.
2024-06-25 · 746.5202(1) · Medium High
Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-07-02. Correction verified: 2024-06-26.
The operation does not have a copy of the Emergency Preparedness Plan.
2024-06-21 · 746.1013(a)(3) · Medium
Director's Absence - Caregiver in Charge Has Access to All Records
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-21. Correction verified: 2024-06-25.
The caregiver left in charge did not have access to documentation for review as requested by Licensing.
2024-06-21 · 746.3427 · Medium High
Pest Extermination
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-07-05. Correction verified: 2024-07-01.
Live roaches were present in the infant room cubbies and 1 live roach in the kitchen space.
2024-06-21 · 746.3503(a) · Medium High
Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-28. Correction verified: 2024-06-25.
The diaper changing table used by the infant caregiver is torn and needs replacing.
2023-07-25 · 746.3701 · Medium High
Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-08-11. Correction verified: 2023-08-09.
The outdoor play space has pieces of glass on the ground.
2023-06-28 · 746.301(2) · Medium
Notification of Change in Space
Corrected at inspection: Yes. Correction date: 2023-06-28. Correction verified: Not recorded.
The playground was reduced by the landlord with a new fence on 6/24/23, causing the outdoor space to be reduced. No prior notification of change in space was made to Licensing. Note: the changes were discussed during inspection.
2023-06-28 · 746.3701 · Medium High
Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-07-07. Correction verified: 2023-07-25.
The outdoor play space needs to be cleared of pieces of metal, trash, metal wires as tripping hazards and the fence facing the building has a hole large enough for a child to walk through.
2023-06-28 · 746.603(a)(3) · Medium
Children's Records - Health Statement
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-07-03. Correction verified: 2023-07-25.
1 out of 4 children's records is missing the required health statement.
2023-06-28 · 746.2207(c)(6) · Medium
Screen Time Activities - Off When Not in Use
Corrected at inspection: Yes. Correction date: 2023-06-28. Correction verified: Not recorded.
The pre-k tv was on playing Trolls while the children in a different space eating lunch. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the caregiver turned the tv off.
2023-06-28 · 746.1309(a) · Medium
Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-07-03. Correction verified: 2023-07-25.
2 out of 3 staff files needs training certificates for annual training requirements for evaluated training year.
2023-06-28 · 746.603(a)(4) · Medium
Children's Records - Immunizations
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-07-03. Correction verified: 2023-07-25.
1 out of 4 children's files is missing the immunization record.
2023-06-28 · 746.1311(a) · Medium
Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-07-03. Correction verified: 2023-07-25.
The director needs training certificates for all topics in annual training for evaluated year.
2022-02-25 · 746.303(b) · Medium Low
Report Number of Employees
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2022-03-02. Correction verified: 2022-02-25.
A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.

Source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation, via data.texas.gov (CC0). See the official record: https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/Public/InspectionAndComplianceHistory?operationId=1372769

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Provider data fetched: October 10, 2026.