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Collection GaiJR : J. Richard Gaintner Collection

Description

Key

99221

Reference Code Element

GaiJR

Dates

1977-1983, inclusive

Extent

14.4 cubic feet (12 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Gaintner, John Richard (1936-2004)

Administrative/Biographical History

John R. Gaintner
18 Feb 1936- 25 May 2004
J. Richard Gaintner was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in 1958 from Lehigh University and his M.D. in 1962 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Gaintner was a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, serving as an internist at U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado, and as assistant chief of staff at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, Vietnam. From 1966 to 1967, he was a fellow in hematology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, after which he joined the staff of John Dempsey Hospital at the University of Connecticut. Gaintner continued to work on hospital and medical school faculties in Connecticut until 1977, when he returned to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as associate dean for administration. In 1981, he was named vice president and deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Under his leadership, ties between the hospital and school of medicine were strengthened. Gaintner left Johns Hopkins in 1983 to assume the office of president and chief executive officer of the Albany Medical Center. In 1989, he went to Boston and joined the faculty at Harvard as professor of medicine. At the same time, Gaintner became president and chief executive officer of New England Deaconess Hospital, a post he held until 1994. While in Boston, he served as president of several health networks. From 1997 to 2001, Gaintner was chief executive officer of Shands HealthCare and clinical professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1966-1967; 1978-1983

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1977-1983

Scope and Content

The J. Richard Gaintner Collection spans Gaintner's years as associate dean for administration of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. It includes correspondence, administrative records, committee records, reports, and articles. Planning documents for the school of nursing are included, such as records from a nursing education feasibility study (1979), the steering committee for the nursing school, and the proposal for a nursing education night school. Administrative records include planning reports and studies on the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, as well as records from the Committee on the Coordination of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2022

Processing Information

The J. Richard Gaintner Collection was inventoried by Lukas Dean and Andy Harrison in 2022 under the direction of Phoebe Evans Letocha.

Accession

1983-013

Composed Of

Found 12 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
123U5- ABC files: Bulkley - Development	431977686		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123V2- ABC files: AAMC - Buildings	431977798		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123V4- ABC files: Government Affairs - IRGPC	431977799	1970s	Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123V5- ABC files: Management-Obstetrics	431977797		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123W1- ABC files: Oncology - Purchasing	431977784		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123W3- ABC files: Humanities - Legionnaires Disease	431977785		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123W4- ABC Files, Radiation-School of Hygiene	431977788		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123W6- ABC files: School of Hygiene - Wilmer	431977800		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123X1- ABC files: East Baltimore Medical Plan - Financial	431977789		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123X2- ABC files: Endowment-Government Affairs	431977792		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
123X4- ABC files: Government Affairs	431977793		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection
1983-013-01- Studies and reports from Office of Vice President	305492		Box	CollectionGaiJR- J. Richard Gaintner Collection

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