Frederick H. Gibbs, MHA, LFACHA
BA, Univ. Maryland, 1958
MA, Univ. Minnesota, 1959
Program Director and Prof., Dept. Health Care Admin., George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C., 1959-72
Program Director, Interagency Institutes for Federal Hospital Admin., Washington, DC, 1956-70
President, AUPHA, 1964-65
Program Director, U.S. Army-Baylor Univ., Med. Field Svc. School, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, 1952-56
Biography
First to chair George Washington University's Department of Health Care Administration starting in 1959 was Frederick H. Gibbs, a retired full colonel who had developed conceptual frameworks for medical administration in the Army's Office of the Surgeon General. Among those who helped Gibbs frame the GW curriculum were University Provost and Dean of Faculties, Oswald S. Colclough, Chairman of the Department of Business and Public Administration, James C. Dockeray, Associate Dean of Faculties, John Latimer, and School of Government, Business and International Affairs Dean, Archibald M. Woodruff.
By the early 1960s, Gibbs had launched a two-step master's degree program comprising thirty-six semester hours of academic work and a full-year of on-site hospital training. The course work addressed the general and technical aspects of hospital administration, administrative theory and practice, and problem solving in the area of managing hospitals, nursing homes, and similar institutions. The hospital training, which followed, remained during the first twenty years of the program, its greatest strength.
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