Analytical Long-Term Care Capacity Planning

Yue Zhang () and Martin L. Puterman ()
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Yue Zhang: University of Toledo
Martin L. Puterman: University of British Columbia

Chapter Chapter 3 in Operations Research and Health Care Policy, 2013, pp 39-70 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the use of analytical approaches for residential long-term care (LTC) capacity planning. The recommended method integrates demographic and survival analysis, discrete event simulation, and optimization. Through a case study based in British Columbia, Canada, it illustrates results of using this approach. Further, it discusses shortcomings of a fixed-ratio approach widely used in practice and the SIPP (stationary, independent, period by period) approach and its modifications developed in the call center literature. It also proposes an easy-to-use and effective planning method, the Average Flow Model. It concludes with a discussion of policy implications and extensions.

Keywords: Arrival Rate; Service Level; British Columbia; Capacity Level; Simulation Optimization Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6507-2_3

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