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Medical City McKinney Houses 150,000 Honey Bees In Hives On Undeveloped Property

The hospital started cultivating the beehives on seven acres of undeveloped property last spring.

October 1, 2020

MCKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW) – The honey is flowing for the first time at six thriving beehives housing about 150,000 of the insects on land west of Medical City McKinney.

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The hospital started cultivating the beehives on seven acres of undeveloped property last spring. It’s even adding plants native to Texas around the hospital campus to create natural food sources to help support the bees.

“As we embarked on the expansion of our newly opened behavioral health and inpatient rehabilitation pavilion, we saw a unique opportunity to partner healthcare with sustainability. Honey bees support a healthy environment, improving human life all around us,” says Ernest C. Lynch, III, FACHE, CEO for Medical City McKinney.

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