Established on 02.24.2011 by Sanford
Ted graduated from Minneapolis Southwest High School and St. Olaf College, where he was president of the senior class. He married his college sweetheart Lois Leiseth on September 24, 1955, and enrolled at the University of Chicago Law School on a full scholarship. While a third-year law student, he was hired as Assistant Dean of Students at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. Following graduation he passed the Illinois Bar Examination.
Lois and Ted then moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he served for a year as Administrative Assistant to the president of the University of Colorado.
In 1961 President Joe Knutson recruited Ted to teach at Concordia College in Moorhead. Starting as an Associate Professor and Chair of the Business Administration and Economics Department, he became a full professor two years later. In 1966 he founded the Program in Health Care Administration at Concordia. The Program grew and produced more than 500 graduates by the time of Ted’s retirement in 1998, with many achieving positions of major responsible in health care management in the Upper Midwest and throughout the world.
Ted also served for 25 years on the faculty of the Independent Graduate Study Program at the University of Minnesota where he taught and authored manuals on Legal Dimensions for Hospital Administrators and Legal Issues of Nurse Administrators. In addition, Professor Heimarck produced a teaching volume on Organization & Management Development for the use of the statewide developmental disabilities training project, and taught continuing education course for nursing home and clinic administrators in several states.
The purpose of tis endowed fund is to support the Ted Heimarck Professor of Hospital Administration in the Sanford Health Center for Healthcare Leadership.