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Improving healthcare for mothers and babies in S.C.

The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) is convening the Rural Access to Care for Improving Maternal and Infant Health Taskforce to develop a 10-year plan to address maternal and infant health outcomes through improved access to care in rural areas across the state.
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The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) is convening the Rural Access to Care for Improving Maternal and Infant Health Taskforce to develop a 10-year plan to address maternal and infant health outcomes through improved access to care in rural areas across the state.

In case you weren’t aware, our state has an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization lobbying to improve health and health care in South Carolina. And they have recently announced that they are launching a task force focused on maternal and infant care in the rural parts of our state, where there are actually 14 counties that do not have an obstetrician. Mike Switzer interviews Maya Pack, executive director of the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health in Columbia, 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.