Department of Management Science
Healthcare Clinic
Consider a walk-in healthcare clinic with the following stations/offices:
STATIONS/ CAPACIT SERVICE TIMES OFFICES Y (MINUTES)
REGISTRATION 1 Random.Triangular(1,2,3)
TRIAGE 1 Random.Triangular(3,5,7)
TREATMENT 2 Random.Triangular(7, 10.5, 14)
LAB 4 Random.Triangular(6,10, 14)
XRAY 1 Random.Triangular(8,10,12)
MRI 2 Assignment Project Exam HelpRandom.Triangular(14,18,22)
EKG 1 Random.Triangular(20, 25, 30)
ACCOUNTING 4 Random.Triangular(2,5,8)
The arrival rate of patients is 40 patients per hour. The clinic has distinct types of patients:
PATIENT (%)
WALK-IN 23
LAB-ONLY 47
EKG 4
XRAY 12
MRI 14
The patient routing sequence is given in the following table:
PATIENT ROUTING SEQUENCE
Reg
. Triag e Trea
t. La b Xra y MR
I EK G Acc
t
Walk-in 1 2 3 4
Labonly 1 2
XRay 1 2 3
MRI 1 2 3
EKG 1 2 3
Assume that the healthcare clinic works 24 hours. Your model should include the following characteristics/features:
a) Entities should move from station to station instantaneously (0 simulated time)
b) Name the object instances in your model
c) Use Google 3D Warehouse or/and Simio symbols to find appropriate symbols for the model. Develop an interesting animation for your model
d) Create a status plot that displays (1) the instantaneous number of patients in the system and (2) the average number of patients in the system.
e) Create pie charts to show the utilization of each server.
f) Create an experiment with 20 replications, 500 hours of run-length, and 100 hours of warmup.Assignment Project Exam Help
g) Compare your simulation results to steady-state queueing theoretic results to confirm that the simulation model is representing the system to be studied
h) Suppose the patient arrival rate increases by 5%. Can the current system handle the increase? What about 7%? 10%? Compare the expected time
+10% scenarios. (Use referenced Property to set up the four scenarios with different interarrival times)
i) Add an additional patient type ”Treat-Lab” (sequence: registration, lab, treatment, account, depart) such that proportions now become Walk-In 22%, Lab 43%, Xray 11%, MRI 13%, EKG 4% and Treat-Lab 7%. The new arrival rate is as follows:
Time Period Average Number of patients Arriving in Time period
0:00 to 4:00 160
4:00 to 8:00 172
8:00 to 12:00 184
12:00 to 16:00 184
16:00 to 20:00 172
20:00 to 24:00 160
Can the system handle these new patients? If not, what is your recommendation (be specific)?
