Snow-Bird Hospital is a small emergency-oriented facility located in a popular ski resort in Northern Michigan. Its new administrator, Mary Lord, decides to reorganize the hospital using the process-layout method she studied in business school.

The only physical restriction perceived by Lord is the need to keep the entrance/initial processing room in its current location. All other departments or rooms (each of 5 feet square) can be moved if layout analysis indicates a move would be beneficial.

Is further improvement possible? If so, what is it? By allocating the spaces in the order in which the tasks are usually performed, total movement is enter your response here feet (enter your response as a whole number).

Data table Data table (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Entrance/lnitial processing (1) Exam room 1 (2) Exam room 2 (3) X-ray (4) Lab test/EKG (5) Operating room (6) Recovery room (7) Cast-setting room (8) First, Lord analyzes records to determine the number of patient movements among departments in an average month. Her objective, Lord decides, is to lay out the departments so as to minimize the total movement (distance traveled) of patients in the hospital. She writes her objective as Minimizepatientmovement=i=1j=18ij8Xij, where Xij= number of patient movements per month (loads or trips) moving from department i to department j, Cij= distance in feet between departments i and j (which, in this case, is the equivalent of cost per load to move between departments). Lord assumes that adjacent departments, such as entrance (now in work area A ) and exam room 1 (now i work area B), have a walking distance of 5 feet. Diagonal departments are also considered adjacent and assigned a distance of 5 feet. Nonadjacent departments, such as the entrance and exam room 2 (now in area C) or the entrance and recovery room (area G) are 10 feet apart, and nonadjacent rooms, such as entrance and X-ray (area D), are 15 feet apart. (Hence, 5 feet is considered 5 units of cost, 10 feet is 10 units of cost, and 15 feet is 15 units of cost.) First, establish Snow Bird's current layout. Then, by analyzing the current layout, compute patient movement: Total movement =3,350 feet Lord determined that two useful changes are to switch departments 3 and 5 and to interchange departments 4 and 6 . This change would result in the schematic shown the following figure. Totalmovement=(905)+(1005)+(455)+(305)+(205)+(3010)+(205)+(105)+(3010)+(205)+(205)