East Texas Community Clinic reports growth; hospital outlines robotic surgery, cath lab and facility expansion plans

Henderson County Commissioners Court heard updates from East Texas Community Clinic (ETCC) and local hospital leaders about recent growth in primary care services, an expanding family medicine residency and multi‑year hospital facility upgrades.

County officials were told ETCC started seeing patients in May 2020 and has served more than 12,500 individual patients in five years, with about 18,500 clinic visits reported last year. Glenn Robinson, chief executive officer of East Texas Community Clinic, said the clinic opened a third site in Canton in early March and is seeing about 34 patients a day there.

"Last year, it was around 18,500 clinic visits," Robinson said. He also told the court ETCC received a $1,000,000 incubator grant from the Texas Department of State Health Services to help cover salaries after opening the Canton site and that the clinic plans to apply for a $650,000 expansion grant to add…