Managing hospital bed capacity through partitioning care into focused wings
T Best, B Sandikci, D Eisenstein… - Chicago Booth Research …, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
We consider the partitioning of care types into wings from the perspective of a hospital
administrator, who wishes to optimize the use of a fixed number of beds that provide
services for heterogeneous care types. Patients of each care type request admission to the
hospital stochastically, and if admitted, require a stochastic length-of-stay and provide the
hospital some utility. If a bed is not immediately available, patients wait a random amount of
time for admission, which may take place in a physical queue (as in an emergency room) or …
administrator, who wishes to optimize the use of a fixed number of beds that provide
services for heterogeneous care types. Patients of each care type request admission to the
hospital stochastically, and if admitted, require a stochastic length-of-stay and provide the
hospital some utility. If a bed is not immediately available, patients wait a random amount of
time for admission, which may take place in a physical queue (as in an emergency room) or …
Managing hospital inpatient bed capacity through partitioning care into focused wings
TJ Best, B Sandıkçı, DD Eisenstein… - … & Service Operations …, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider the partitioning of care types into wings from the perspective of a hospital
administrator who wishes to optimize the use of a fixed number of beds that provide services
for heterogeneous care types. The hospital administrator decides on the number of wings to
form, the number of beds to allocate to each wing, and the set of care types to assign to each
wing to maximize the total utility to the hospital. The administrator faces an inherent trade-off
between forming large wings to pool demand and bed capacity, and forming specialized …
administrator who wishes to optimize the use of a fixed number of beds that provide services
for heterogeneous care types. The hospital administrator decides on the number of wings to
form, the number of beds to allocate to each wing, and the set of care types to assign to each
wing to maximize the total utility to the hospital. The administrator faces an inherent trade-off
between forming large wings to pool demand and bed capacity, and forming specialized …