A hospital has a 600 bed facility & decided to make a 90 bed addition. Administrators feel that the labs, operating rooms & x-ray departments are not being fully utilized and do not need to be expanded to handle additional patients. However the addition of 90 beds involves deciding how many beds should be allocated for medical patients & surgical patient.
The average stay for a medical patient is 8 days which generates $2280 in revenues. The average surgical patient is in the hospital 5 days and receives$1515 in revenue.
The laboratory can handle 15000 more tests per year than it was handling. The average medical patient uses 3.1 lab tests and the average surgical patient takes 2.6 labs. The average medical patient uses 1 x ray, and the average surgical patient requires 2 x-rays. If the hospital expanded by 90 beds the x-ray department dept could handle up to 7000 x-rays without significant costs. Finally the administration estimates that up to 2800 additional operations could be performed in existing operating room facilities. Medical patients, of course, do not require surgery, whereas each surgical patient generally has one surgery performed. Assume that the hospital is open 365 days a year.
What is the number of unused operations rooms available?
What is the number of xrays at unused capacity?
