ACTIVE POOR Compliance

Elena's Day Care

12543 WESTELLA DR STE A, HOUSTON, TX 77077

License #892911 | Expires: Nov 19, 2008

Day Care Center
Type
73
Capacity
13
Inspections
22
Violations

Compliance Summary

5
Critical
10
Serious
5
Moderate
2
Minor

Inspection History

Date Type Result Violations
Jun 16, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jun 10, 2025 Annual Inspection Violations Found 5
May 28, 2025 OTHER Violations Found 2
Jul 29, 2024 OTHER Compliant 0
Jul 18, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 2, 2024 OTHER Compliant 0
Jun 26, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 4
Aug 10, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 26, 2023 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3
Aug 9, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3
Feb 25, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Aug 10, 2021 Annual Inspection Violations Found 4
Jun 23, 2021 Annual Inspection Compliant 0

Violation Details

Critical Corrected

One caregiver that was counted in the child to caregiver ratio had a pending background status.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Serious Corrected

Observed a caregiver washing bottles in both sinks, hand washing and bottle washing sink.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Serious Corrected

Observed an infant sitting in a high chair without being properly strapped up with the safety belts. NOTE: This was corrected at the inspection by being removed from the high chair.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Serious Corrected

Observed an infant holding and feeding themselves a bottle while propped up on a stuffed animal in their crib. NOTE: This was corrected during the inspection by removing the infant from the crib.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Critical Corrected

Observed a 3 month old sleeping in a restrictive device.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Serious Corrected

Observed one teacher with thirteen children with the SAG 2 years old. Observed another teacher with sixteen children and SAG 3 years old.

Corrected: Jun 24, 2025

Moderate Corrected

Observed 3 infants awake in their cribs for more than 30 minutes. NOTE: This was corrected during the inspection by removing the infant from their cribs.

Corrected: Jun 10, 2025

Moderate Corrected

The last liability insurance coverage exipired on 2/7/24.

Corrected: Aug 9, 2024

Critical Corrected

I observed a 3 month old sleeping in a restrictive device.

Corrected: Jun 26, 2024

Critical Corrected

I observed an 3m old in a swing with a propped bottle.

Corrected: Jun 26, 2024

Serious Corrected

The last gas inspection was conducted on 5/7/22.

Critical Corrected

Infant was sleeping in a play yard with a visible quarter size hole in mesh.

Serious Corrected

3 dead roaches were left accesible to children in their restroom.

Serious Corrected

Monthly fire drills were not conducted under the 3 minutes exit time.

Serious Corrected

1 child's record did not contain a current immunization record. The child is missing the MMR vaccine.

Serious Corrected

Children in the infant class have not been signed in since 08/05/22. The Director corrected this at inspection. Children in the prek class were not signed in. A caregiver signed the children in at inspection.

Minor Corrected

2 children's records did not have health statements available for review.

Minor Corrected

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.

Moderate Corrected

Caregivers were missing training in the required topics of Handling, Storing, and Disposing of Hazardous Materials, Administering Medications, Preventing and Responding to Emergencies due to Food Allergies, Emergency Preparedness, Preventing the Spread of Communicable Diseases, and Building and Premises Safety. One caregiver was also missing training in the required topics of Child Maltreatment, and SIDS/Shaken Baby.

Serious Corrected

One infant bottle was observed in the infant classroom not labeled with the infant s first name and initial of last name. Note: This was corrected at inspection when the bottles were labeled correctly.

Moderate Corrected

One infant who is not ready for table food has not had their infant feeding schedule updated since June 2021.

Moderate Corrected

The director did not have annual training hours in the required topics of Handling, Storing, and Disposing of Hazardous Materials, Administering Medication, and Preventing and Responding to Emergencies due to Food Allergies, Emergency Preparedness, Preventing and controlling spread of communicable diseases and Building and Physical premises safety.

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Data Source: texas_dfps — Last updated: Mar 4, 2026
Data is provided as-is from public government records. It may not reflect changes since the last inspection.