Cases in Health Services Management Fourth Edition By Jonathon S. Rakich, Ph.D., Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., Ph.D., & Kurt Darr, J.D., Sc.D.

Jonathon S. Rakich, Ph.D.

Dr. Rakich received his master of business administration from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and his doctorate from Saint Louis University. His university instructional areas are strategic management and health services administration. During his 36 year teaching career, Dr. Rakich has coauthored 3 books in 12 editions, 40 journal articles (including those in Health Care Financing Review, Health Care Management Review, Hospital & Health Services Administration, Journal of Health & Society Policy, and Hospital Topics), and 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. During academic sabbaticals, he served an administrative residency at Summa Health System and conducted on-site research of the Canadian health care system.

Professor Rakich is a member of the 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.

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

Dr. Longest’s primary faculty appointment is in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Business Administration in the Katz Graduate School of Business.

He received an undergraduate education at Davidson College and received a master of health administration and a doctorate from Georgia State University. Professor Longest is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds memberships in the Academy of Management, AcademyHealth, American Public Health Association, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He has the unusual distinction of having been elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society in Business as well as in the 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 co-authored 9 books and 26 chapters in other books. His book Health Policymaking in the United States (Health Administration Press, 2002) is among the most widely used textbooks in graduate health policy programs.

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

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

Dr. Darr 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.