Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne - Migration of Patients

Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital is building a new hospital, and has a requirement to migrate between 150 to 200 young patients from the old 8-floor building to the new one, with wards on 6 floors. The hospital management determined that they had an 8-10 hour window for the patient migration, and decided to simulate the patient migration to determine the level of staffing, routing and scheduling required to achieve this.

RCH considered using Flexsim after reading a case study by Denver Children's Hospital, which had used the software in 2007 for the same task.

The complex model had over 400 bed positions, 6 CAD drawings, over 1000 network points, and 21 elevators ( in 6 individually controllable banks). Data tables controlled staff and patient numbers, and the migration routing and schedule.

The model was built and delivered with user-accessible parameters and hospital staff were able to "play" with the model until they had sufficient confidence that they knew what to do. The Experimenter function helped, by comparing various scenarios, to determine the required number of migration teams.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Flexsim
• health care
• hospital
• patient
• patient migration

[MissMilann]

cool i wish i was sick just on that day so i could see what it was like :)