Hunt Regional opens new Royse City emergency department on I-30

A 24-hour emergency department is now seeing patients at Hunt Regional Medical Center Royse City, giving Royse City, eastern Rockwall County and western Hunt County a closer emergency-care option along Interstate 30. The opening on Monday, June 1, marked the first major clinical service to go live at the new campus, one-half mile east of FM 2642.

The facility is at 6743 W. Interstate 30 in Royse City and is open around the clock. Hunt Regional said most insurance is accepted at the emergency department, including Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare. The medical center site also includes an ambulance bay and helipad, with American Medical Response providing ambulance coverage for Hunt County and Royse City.

The opening matters because it moves the project from construction into active patient care. Hunt Regional said the Royse City campus was completed in 2025 with NexCore Group, even though Texas state project records had listed a much earlier target completion date. Those records identified the project as a Hunt Regional Medical Center Royse City facility on West Interstate 30.

The broader development has been described as a phase-one, master-planned medical community. Early plans called for a two-story, 70,000-square-foot building with a 10-bay emergency specialty hospital, five inpatient beds, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, primary care and specialty practices such as women’s care and orthopedics. Later descriptions updated the concept to a 65,000-square-foot medical building with a 12-bed comprehensive ER and room for future surgical expansion.

Local leaders and developers have framed the project as a response to rapid growth. Hunt County’s population grew from 99,959 in the 2020 Census to an estimated 123,336 by July 1, 2025, while Royse City had 13,508 residents in 2020. The City of Royse City also awarded NexCore a $925,000 cash incentive in April 2023 to support the development.

For families driving the I-30 corridor, the change is immediate: a new emergency front door is now open in Royse City, with the first phase of a larger medical campus already serving patients and the rest of the buildout still to come.