Title

Modeling And Simulation Of An Ambulatory Surgery Facility

Keywords

Ambulatory surgery; Discrete event simulation; Process improvement; Specialty climes; System redesign

Abstract

We present a system redesign and improvement of a Veterans Administration Center Specialty Clinics and their associated Ambulatory Surgery unit conducted by the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, in collaboration with the Orlando VA Medical Center. The project lasted 3 years and it covered three major OVAMC-defined challenges. This presentation only covers the modeling, simulation and findings of the Discrete Event simulation, which assists with Challenge 1, High variability in specialty care consults, and Challenge 3, Suboptimal surgery scheduling process. Most of the patient visits are scheduled but there are some walk-ins. We discuss the impact of no-shows and of visit cancelations through alternative scenarios that focus on overbooking and on changes to the return visit interval, the provider-patient encounter slot size, the Friday surgery schedule, and the scheduled start time for the last surgery of the day.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

2nd International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Health Innovative Simulation for Health, IWISH 2013, Held at the Int. Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference, I3M 2012

Number of Pages

42-51

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84898827417 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84898827417

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