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SC State University Adds Healthcare Management MBA

Ellen Recoma
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

As the population continues to age, the health care industry in the United States continues to experience dramatic growth and now, in fact, represents the nation’s largest private industry sector.  That’s why our next guest says her school has added a health care management MBA to its list of degree programs.

Mike Switzer interviews Ellen Ricoma, with the School of Business at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, 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.