2025-01-23 · 746.901(5) · Medium Low
Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)
Two new employees hired after September 2023 do not have a preemployment affidavit in their file.
Correction date recorded: 2025-01-24
Westside Community DCC
Licensed Center
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Provider details
- City / County / ZIP
- Big Spring / Howard / 79720
- Street address
- 2300 Simler Big Spring Ind Par Bldg 449
- Phone
- (432) 263-7841
- Capacity
- 85
- Ages served
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours / Days
- 07:30 AM-05:00 PM / Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri
- Permit type
- Full Permit
- Permit issued
- February 5, 1987
- Operation status:
- Active
- Corrective action
- HHSC lists: No
- Adverse action
- HHSC lists: No
- Temporarily closed
- HHSC lists: No
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Adverse action means HHSC has taken enforcement action affecting an operation’s permit or ability to operate; see the official HHSC record for details.
Summary of state inspection records
Texas HHSC records list 6 inspections dated between October 10, 2023 and October 10, 2026.
The most recent inspection in these records is dated December 15, 2025.
The same records list 11 cited deficiencies dated June 10, 2024 to January 23, 2025 (HHSC risk levels: 5 High, 4 Medium High, 1 Medium, 1 Medium Low).
Correction status recorded by HHSC: 0 corrected at inspection, 11 with a correction date recorded, 0 with no correction date recorded.
HHSC lists a verified correction date for 11 of these citations.
The official HHSC record has the full inspection history and the latest information.
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Summary of the record
This summary is generated automatically from public HHSC records. It restates the official record and may lag behind it. The official state record is the authoritative source: official HHSC record.
Texas Health and Human Services records list 11 cited deficiencies for Westside Community DCC in the 3 years before October 10, 2026 (5 High, 4 Medium High, 1 Medium, 1 Medium Low).
Records list 6 inspections in this window. Most recent inspection: 2025-12-15.
| Risk weight | Citations |
|---|---|
| High | 5 |
| Medium High | 4 |
| Medium | 1 |
| Medium Low | 1 |
| Low | 0 |
| 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
2025-01-23 · 746.613(a) · High
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.
Correction date recorded: 2025-02-07
2024-06-10 · 746.1205(a)(2) · High
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.
Correction date recorded: 2024-06-10
Full citation history from HHSC (16)
2025-01-23 · 746.613(a) · High
Required Immunizations
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-02-07. Correction verified: 2025-02-07.
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.
2025-01-23 · 746.901(5) · Medium Low
Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-01-24. Correction verified: 2025-02-07.
Two new employees hired after September 2023 do not have a preemployment affidavit in their file.
2024-06-10 · 746.4907(a)(1) · Medium High
Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-21. Correction verified: 2024-07-01.
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.
2024-06-10 · 746.3401(a) · Medium High
Annual Sanitation Inspection
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-14. Correction verified: 2024-07-01.
The health inspection is past due as of March 2024.
2024-06-10 · 746.1205(a)(4) · High
Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-10. Correction verified: 2024-06-20.
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.
2024-06-10 · 746.1301(a)(2)(A) · Medium High
Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-28. Correction verified: 2024-07-01.
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.
2024-06-10 · 746.2401(6) · High
Basic Requirements for Infants - Free from Choking Objects That May Cause Choking in Infants or Toddlers
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-10. Correction verified: 2024-06-20.
An infant under two months, able to roll self, was sleeping in the crib face down with a bib around the neck.
2024-06-10 · 746.4805(d) · Medium High
Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - No Overlap
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-21. Correction verified: 2024-07-01.
Two slide exit use zones overlap on the pre-k playground, posing a risk of injury to children.
2024-06-10 · 746.2421(b) · Medium
Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-11. Correction verified: 2024-06-20.
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.
2024-06-10 · 746.613(a) · High
Required Immunizations
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-21. Correction verified: 2024-06-20.
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.
2024-06-10 · 746.1205(a)(2) · High
Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-06-10. Correction verified: 2024-06-20.
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.
2023-09-19 · 746.1309(d) · Medium High
Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-09-20. Correction verified: 2023-09-29.
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.
2023-09-19 · 746.613(b) · Medium High
Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-09-26. Correction verified: 2023-09-29.
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.
2023-09-19 · 746.1315(b)(1) · Medium High
CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2023-09-29. Correction verified: 2023-09-29.
A caregiver left alone with children did not have current certification in CPR/first aid. Expired 8/19/23.
2021-10-28 · 746.603(a)(4) · Medium
Children's Records - Immunizations
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2021-11-04. Correction verified: 2021-11-09.
Four children did not have current immunizations.
2021-10-28 · 746.2426 · High
Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2021-10-28. Correction verified: 2021-11-09.
A six month old infant was left to asleep in a bouncy seat for 10 minutes.
Source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation, via data.texas.gov (CC0). See the official record: https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/Public/InspectionAndComplianceHistory?operationId=96079
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Provider data fetched: October 10, 2026.