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.

The experts in health administration have authored a revised and enhanced edition of the standard text for health services managers! The crisply written fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text examines virtually every aspect of health services management, with a new emphasis on health systems, a thorough update of all previous material, and new or revised cases and questions in every chapter.

Most important, while still addressing the conceptual frameworks for managing the organization and delivery of health services through health services organizations, the fourth edition includes attention to these issues in the increasingly prevalent systems structure in U.S. health care. This important new emphasis joins a host of improvements to the book, including

• Over 75 new and revised cases
  
• New discussion questions among the hundreds in the text
  
• Significantly enhanced problem-solving chapter
  
• More tables, figures, diagrams, and visual aids
  
• Enhanced sections on managed care and alternate delivery mechanisms
  
• Attention to nontraditional medicine and alternative medicine
  
• Expanded and updated bibliographies for each chapter
• Improved instructors' manual
  

The revision has been extensive, yet the text still brings you the same comprehensive information you've come to expect on every aspect of health services management, from managerial problem solving, resource allocation and utilization, management functions and roles, and organizational culture, to continuous quality improvement, human resources, interorganizational relationships, and facilitation of change.

Over 200 colleges and universities trust this text to help students learn to tackle the challenging issues facing today's health services managers. Hundreds of thought-provoking discussion questions and intriguing case studies let them apply what they learn. Plus, the issues featured are contemporary, including:

• Health systems' dynamics
  
  
• Administrative and biomedical ethics
  
  
• Legal issues
  
  
• Influential new management theories, including emotional intelligence
  
  
• Implications of changes in technology
  
  

Give your students the advantages of using the best health services management text on the market!

Instructors rely on Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems Instructor's Manual as an essential tool in the classroom. Thought-provoking analyses of all discussion questions and case studies will spark classroom discourse and increase students' understanding of complex management issues.The manual is available at no charge with the adoption of the text.