Hospital capacity management through simulation
Keywords:
Hospital, Resource management, Simulation, Patient SurgeAbstract
This paper investigates different strategies that hospital managers can implement to use their resources more efficient. the resources in the hospital can be human resources, equipment and spaces that can be shared during extraordinary situations that hospitals have a surge in their arrivals for example earthquakes and pandemics. These different strategies are Internal Resource management, Patient transfer management between hospitals, Resource transfer between hospital and Temporary improvement of hospital resources. Required framework with simulation is provided. Then different outcomes are introduced which are Unmet demand, utility of the resources, served patients and queue length. Lastly expected outcome and the reasons for these expectations are described. These results provide insights for the managers who want to plan for improvement of their hospitals serving more patients.
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