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Competitive Environment Increasing for Hospitals

Mike Switzer
Mike Switzer

  If the prediction is true that South Carolina will be down to only four or five health systems within 10 years, then how will our state's caregivers of today formulate a plan to stay relevant and competitive in a business environment that is changing so rapidly? Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Mike Wattenbarger, a six-time “Top Doctor” designee by Charlotte Business Magazine, the newly-appointed chief of staff at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.