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Economic Growth Helping LowCountry Hospitals

South Carolina Public Radio | By Mike Switzer

Published April 21, 2017 at 5:00 AM EDT

While we’ve heard doom and gloom stories about hospitals lately, including speculation about their ability to survive in today’s brave new world of healthcare, our next guest says that the current and projected population and economic growth in his area bodes well for his hospitals.

Mike Switzer interviews Todd Gallati, president of Trident Health Systems in Charleston, SC.

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Mike Switzer

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.

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