Simulation of VA Hospital Length of Stay for Analyzing Additional Inpatient Bed Capacity

Abstract

The development of simulation models continues to provide effective solutions to problems in healthcare systems. The insight into how to effectively use the limited hospital resources contributes to the improvement of quality of the services. This document describes an application of Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to the Veteran Affairs (VA) Sacramento Medical Center. The model was developed as a research contribution to support managerial decisions regarding the increase of occupancy to reduce waiting time of patients. This investigation was developed with the aim of increase the quality of the services offered by the VA Hospital and provide to veterans and their families better access to healthcare.

Meeting Name

67th Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (2017: May 20-23, Pittsburgh, PA)

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Discrete Event Simulation; Hospital bed capacity; Length of stay; Operations research

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-098376246-1

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2017 Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 May 2017

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