ACTIVE POOR Compliance

Midland College Helen L Greathouse Childrens Center

3600 N GARFIELD ST, MIDLAND, TX 79705

License #211553 | Expires: Apr 1, 1986

Day Care Center
Type
85
Capacity
39
Inspections
20
Violations

Compliance Summary

11
Critical
6
Serious
1
Moderate
2
Minor

Inspection History

Date Type Result Violations
Feb 26, 2026 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 10, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Nov 10, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Nov 6, 2025 OTHER Violations Found 2
Apr 22, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 27, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 22, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 3, 2024 OTHER Violations Found 3
Nov 15, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
May 23, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Mar 21, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 7, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 6, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
Oct 19, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Oct 13, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
Oct 11, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Sep 29, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Sep 13, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Sep 1, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 3
Jul 18, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 12, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
May 16, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 28, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 26, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Apr 21, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 19, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 2
Apr 14, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
Apr 8, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
Apr 4, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 4
Mar 29, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
Mar 29, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Mar 4, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Mar 3, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Feb 16, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jan 27, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jan 24, 2022 OTHER Compliant 0
Jul 7, 2021 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jun 15, 2021 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jun 10, 2021 OTHER Violations Found 1

Violation Details

Critical Corrected

This standard was found to be out of compliance when a child was able to leave outside unnoticed and remain unsupervised for 13 minutes.

Corrected: Nov 26, 2025

Critical Corrected

This standard was found to be out of compliance when a caregiver grabbed and held a child by their clothing and dragged the child inside.

Corrected: Nov 26, 2025

Serious Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. It was found that caregivers have used cell phones and smart watches for personal use while supervising children.

Corrected: Aug 20, 2024

Serious Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. It was found that staff take shoes away from children when they do not listen to instruction or redirection.

Corrected: Aug 20, 2024

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. It was found that caregivers argued using foul language in the presence of children.

Corrected: Aug 20, 2024

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when a caregiver left a child in the bathroom, turned off the lights and closed the door for nine seconds on two occasions in the same day.

Corrected: Nov 23, 2022

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. A child left the classroom via an open door and was on the playground alone for three minutes.

Corrected: Sep 19, 2022

Serious Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. One staff was tending to a child in the bathroom while the second caregiver cleaned a table. The children were not supervised while playing by an open door that lead to the playground. A child went out the door alone.

Corrected: Sep 19, 2022

Critical Corrected

A door leading to the playground was left propped open without a door guard. While the caregivers tended to children's toileting needs and cleaning of the classroom, a child went out the door onto the playground.

Corrected: Sep 19, 2022

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when a caregiver left a child out on the playground alone for 45 seconds.

Corrected: May 3, 2022

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. An infant caregiver pulled, yanked, dragged, and pushed infants by the arm. The caregiver also carried infants by the arms across the room and threw one infant onto a padded play area.

Critical Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. An infant caregiver slapped infants' hands, arms, and mouth in response to infants getting into a cabinet, other prohibited areas, and when an infant tried to take off their own bow.

Minor Corrected

This standard was reevaluated and remains out of compliance. One child still does not have a vision and hearing screening.

Minor Corrected

Five children's files out of 10 children's files reviewed, did not have vision and hearing screening results in the files. Four children's screenings were produced during inspection. One child still does not have vision and hearing in the file.

Serious Corrected

In two separate classrooms, the caregivers did not wash the infant and toddler hands after diapering.

Critical Corrected

The two and three year old children were served canned pear slices that were not cut up to prevent choking. This was corrected at inspection.

Moderate Corrected

On child did not have immunizations in their file.

Serious Corrected

This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. The operation did not notify the parent right away when a child hit their head hard on concrete.

Critical Corrected

A caregiver did not demonstrate good judgment when she took a picture of two children in care, out of the view of the classroom video and sent it to her friend.

Serious Corrected

It was determined that a caregiver failed to utilize positive methods of discipline and guidance during a biting incident when she repeatedly told the child "stop" and only pointed out what not to do rather than redirecting the child or giving him positive options of what to do when frustrated rather than biting.

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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.