2 Develop a similar table to show the effects of adding opera- tions on Saturday. (Assume that...

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2 Develop a similar table to show the effects of adding opera- tions on Saturday. (Assume that 30 operations would still be performed each day.) How would this affect the utilization of the bed capacity? Is this capacity sufficient for the addition- al patients?Exhibit 11.7 is a room-occupancy table for the existing system. Each row in the table follows the patients that checked in on a given day. The columns indicate the number of patients in the hospital on a given day. For example, the first row of the table shows that 30 people checked in on Monday and were in the hospital for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. By summing the columns of the table for Wednesday, we see that there are 90 patients staying in the hospital that day.O Shouldice Hospital in Canada is widely known for one thing-hemia repair! In fact, that is the only operation it per- forms, and it performs a great many of them. Over the past two decades this small 90-bed hospital has averaged 7,000 operations annually. Last year, it had a record year and performed nearly 7,500 operations. Patients' ties to Shouldice do not end when they leave the hospital. Every year the gala Hemia Reunion dinner (with complimentary hemia inspection) draws in excess of 1,000 former patients, some of whom have been attending the event for over 30 years.

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Operations Management For Competitive Advantage

ISBN: 1572

11th Edition

Authors: Richard B. Chase, F. Robert Jacobs

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