ACTIVE POOR Compliance

St Matthews CDC

4300 N SHEPHERD DR, HOUSTON, TX 77018

License #410532 | Expires: Mar 15, 1992

Day Care Center
Type
203
Capacity
12
Inspections
31
Violations

Compliance Summary

9
Critical
10
Serious
11
Moderate
1
Minor

Inspection History

Date Type Result Violations
Oct 30, 2025 Annual Inspection Violations Found 2
Oct 28, 2025 Annual Inspection Violations Found 5
Jun 16, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jan 21, 2025 OTHER Violations Found 1
Oct 30, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 4
Mar 7, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Feb 14, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3
Feb 12, 2024 OTHER Violations Found 3
Feb 23, 2023 Annual Inspection Violations Found 6
Jul 21, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Mar 1, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 2
Mar 11, 2021 Annual Inspection Violations Found 4

Violation Details

Moderate Corrected

Seven of the required director annual trainings were missing for the most current full year.

Corrected: Nov 13, 2025

Moderate Corrected

The current insurance on file expired 5.2025

Corrected: Nov 13, 2025

Critical Corrected

The current fire inspection at the operation is dated 9.3.24

Corrected: Jan 15, 2026

Serious Corrected

A caregiver did not have a cpr certification.

Corrected: Nov 11, 2025

Moderate Corrected

A caregiver's file had an invalid education certificate.

Corrected: Nov 11, 2025

Moderate Corrected

Three of the reviewed caregiver files had less than the 24 required training hours.

Corrected: Nov 12, 2025

Critical Corrected

A caregiver that is provisionally eligible with conditions was alone and responsible for children. The provisional caregiver's class was then combined with an eligible caregiver's class.

Corrected: Oct 28, 2025

Minor Corrected

A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 data from January 17, 2025, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.

Corrected: Jan 21, 2025

Moderate Corrected

Eight staff files were reviewed, and Eight caregivers are missing the required special topic training.

Corrected: Nov 13, 2024

Serious Corrected

Eight staff files were reviewed, and five caregivers did not complete shaken baby, safe sleep, and brain development training.

Corrected: Nov 13, 2024

Moderate Corrected

Eight staff files were reviewed, and Four caregivers are missing the child maltreatment training topics.

Moderate Corrected

Eight staff files were reviewed, and five caregivers did not complete the required six clock hours of training topics.

Serious Corrected

The operation did not have an updated gas inspection report, the last inspection was done on 10/7/2021 which expired on 10/7/2023.

Critical Corrected

A caregiver was observed supervising 8 children in the 3-year-old classroom by herself, even though her background check conditions prohibit her from supervising children alone.

Moderate Corrected

The operation did not have in their operational policy on the benefits of physical activity .

Moderate Corrected

The operation did not have incident reports for the three children that was placed at risk.

Critical Corrected

It was determined three children ages 23 months and two 2 years old was left alone in a classroom for disclose amount of time.

Critical Corrected

The operation did not make a report with in 48 hours. The situation happen on Friday and the operation did not report until Monday. Corrected: When the director and I spoke about the standard and timeline on when and where a report can be make.

Moderate Corrected

Five caregivers are missing annual training. One caregiver is missing 6 1/2 hours from training year 3-3-21 to 3-3-22. One caregiver is missing 17 hours for training year 6-4-21 to 6-4-22. One caregiver is missing 7 annual training hours for 8-16-21 to 8-16-22. Two caregivers are missing 24 annual hours for training year 7-19-21 to 7-19-22 and 9-6-21 to 9-6-22.

Serious Corrected

One caregiver did not have update first aid training.

Critical Corrected

The operation did not have a updated fire inspection report the last report date was 11/22/2021.

Serious Corrected

One caregivers did not have updated CPR training.

Serious Corrected

Two caregiver did not have qualifications for having a high school diploma.

Serious Corrected

In the pre-school classroom four outlets were not covered.

Critical Corrected

It was determined that the new director did not have a background check ran when she started.

Moderate Corrected

During review of physical facilities 3 mats were found to have rips and tears. This was corrected when the caregiver removed the mats and replaced them with new mats.

Serious Corrected

Duriing review of records 1 out of 10 records evaluated did not have an emergency contact as required by minimum standards.

Serious Corrected

7 children need updated FARE forms, signed by both parent and physician.

Serious Corrected

All classrooms needed to use a cover sheet for the food allergy/ preference list. Note: this was corrected at inspection when each list was covered.

Critical Corrected

3 children with a food allergy require epi-pens to be stored at the operation.

Critical Corrected

Three rooms needed to remove toxic materials that were in reach of children. Note: this was corrected at inspection when cleaning supplies and bug spray were placed out of reach of children.

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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.