Hospital Study Honored

Few people would tend to think of hospitals as an industry. Actually they are the nation's fifth largest, and Herluf V. Olsen '22, Professor of Business Economics and Finance and former Dean at Tuck School, has been one of the men mainly responsible for a vastly needed expansion of educational programs to train college graduates in the field of hospital administration.

Last August at the 25th anniversary meeting of the American College of Hospital Administrators, a professional society that is rapidly becoming a leader in its field, Professor Olsen was made an Honorary Fellow in recognition of his special services to the profession. The initial result of his efforts in this area was a report on the administration of hospitals, prepared in 1954 and published by the American Council on Education. In this study, conducted over a period of eighteen months, he directed a staff that conferred with experts in public health, medicine, business administration, hotel administration, and graduate education. Since the publication of this report he has been professional adviser for a number of graduate programs in hospital administration, and in this capacity he is active with the graduate faculties of the Universities of Chicago, lowa, Emory, and Montreal.