| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 工業工程研究所 === 81 === Recently,the participation of medical insurance is increased
rapidly and current medical facilities cannot provid
adequate service. Therefore, many new hospitals have been
built and some existed hospitals have also been
renovated. The hospital management as such become an
attracting arena in Industrial Engineering. In hospital, the
issues of the patient building design and the patient bed
quantity planning will deeply affect the profit of the
hospital and the quantity of the service to the patients. A
proper building design and bed quantity planning not only can
reduce the unnecessary cost but also can increase the level of
service to patients. Determining the necessary patient
bed quantity is a fundamented problem of the patient
building design issue. Effectively planning the number of
beds can save the holding cost of unoccupied beds and
decrease the occurrence of bed shortage. In the last two
decades, several papers were revealed in which patient beds
were determinted by assuming unlimited patient building space
[Maclean (1987),Hershey(1981),Hancock(19- 76), and Esobque(1976)
]. This assumption simplifies the patient beds planninng
problem and makes this problem unreal.In reality, the patient
beds planning issue should be considered based on the
available space, which are also affected by the existing
patient beds. In this thesis, we consider both the unlimited
and the limited cases. In dealing with the patient bed
planning problem,we propose a patient bed control system. By
applying the service level concept from the Inventory
Control,the patient service level and the bed service level
are used as two indices in this control system.
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