has received an economic-stimulus capital grant of $400,000 to expand service and reduce patients’ average total time in system. They can allocate these funds in any way they like to add any number of resources to any of the f ve stations, though they cannot reduce any resources below current levels (one at each station, except three exam rooms). The clinic has the following capital-costs estimates for an additional unit of resource at each station; also given are the maximum number additional resources to each station if the entire $400,000 were allocated to that station: Receptionist Nurse Exam Room Lab/X-Ray Check Out $40,000 $80,000 $200,000 $100,000 $50,000 could add max of 10 could add max of 5 could add max of 2 could add max of 4 could add max of 8 Remember, the $400,000 is additional funding, so should be spent on additional resources; funding of the existing resource levels is already budgeted. Physicians are the main users of the exam rooms, so they are looking at the fact (results from Exercise 4-30) kel01315_ch06_279-310.indd 307 05/12/13 3:27 PM 308 Chapter 6 that the exam rooms are virtually tied (with nurses) for the heaviest utilization and are arguing to spend the entire $400,000 on adding two exam rooms. Do you agree? Set up an OptQuest run to investigate this, and make your recommendations.