Managing Health Services Organizations & Systems Fourth Edition By Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., Ph.D., Jonathon S. Rakich, Ph.D., & Kurt Darr, J.D., Sc.D.

Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., Ph.D., FACHE

Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., is the M. Allen Pond Professor of Health Policy and Management, as well as Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health, at University of Pittsburgh. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Business Administration in the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. He also is Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Policy Institute.

Professor Longest received his undergraduate education at Davidson College and the Master of Health Administration and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Georgia State University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Academy of Management, Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society in Business, and Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health.

His research on issues of health policy and management has generated substantial grant support and has led to the publication of numerous peer-reviewed articles. In addition, he has authored or coauthored 8 books and 16 chapters. His book Healthpolicymaking in the United States, Second Edition, is one of the most widely used textbooks in health policy programs.

Longest consults with health care organizations and systems, universities, associations, and government agencies on health policy and management.

Jonathon S. Rakich, Ph.D.

Jonathon S. Rakich received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. from Saint Louis University. His university instructional areas are strategic management and health services administration. During his 33-year teaching career, Rakich has written or coauthored 3 books in 11 editions, 40 journal articles (including those in Health Care Financing Review, Health Care Management Review, Hospital & Health Services Administration, Journal of Health and Social Policy, and Hospital Topics), and more than 35 conference proceedings and professional papers.

Professor Rakich has been awarded a postdoctoral Federal Faculty Fellowship with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and has served on the board of trustees of a home health agency and health systems agency. While on sabbatical in 1979, he served an administrative residency at Summa Health System. During a 1989 sabbatical, he conducted onsite research of the Canadian health care system.

Rakich is a member of Academy of Management, the Association for Health Services Research, and the Decision Sciences Institute. He holds personal membership in the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and is a faculty affiliate of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Professor Rakich is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Management and Health Services Administration at the University of Akron, where he taught from 1972 to 1999. During that period, he held administrative positions as Director of Graduate Programs in Business, Director of Executive Development Programs, and coordinator of the MBA-Health Services Administration option program.

Kurt Darr, J.D., Sc.D., FACHE

Kurt Darr is Professor of Hospital Administration in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy and Professor of Health Care Sciences at The George Washington University. He holds a Doctor of Science from The Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Hospital Administration and a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota

Professor Darr completed his administrative residency at Rochester (Minnesota) Methodist Hospital and subsequently worked as an administrative associate at the Mayo Clinic. After being commissioned in the U.S. Navy, he served in administrative and educational assignments at St. Albans Naval Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital. He completed his postdoctoral fellowships with the Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization, and the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration.

Professor Darr is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, is a member of the District of Columbia and Minnesota State Bar Associations, serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Health Lawyers Association, and is a mediator for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

He regularly presents seminars on health services ethics, hospital organization and management, quality improvement, and the application of the Deming method in health services. Professor Darr is the author and editor of books used in graduate health services administration programs and numerous articles on health services topics.