Facility Layout and Location

The absolute shortage of hospital beds in all across the nation gives the Ministry of Health the green light to build another new republic general hospital in one of the crowded regions. Constructing the new multi – floors hospital is to address the lack of facilities for patients most especially those who are suffering dengue. In this regard the Ministry has recently signed a project contract with “Horizons” company which specializes in building healthcare constructions. Horizons are fully aware of the role of industrial engineers in its projects and therefore it is as passionate to hire the best and brightest IE graduates to fulfill its increasing projects demand. People from different disciplines and backgrounds are participating in this project and you as ISE team has been chosen by the company to take the lead in this innovation. The company is seeking your team help to achieve the following major tasks: 1. Suggesting possible locations of the new republic general hospital in the region and then providing Horizons company the optimal location. 2. Providing the optimal assignment of the hospital departments into its floors 3. Designing the block layout of each hospital floor. 4. Designing the detailed layouts for parking and warehouse. 5. Locating ambulance stations across the region to serve patients who have emergency cases. Relevant data and details are provided in the following pages of the document. Since the company is unaware of the methodologies that you will be using to design the facilities you are allowed to make reasonable assumptions for the missing data. You are expected to use the standards wherever applicable. Your goal is to provide the company with the best layout and the locations of the facilities. Page 2 of 8 Almaraj & Alghazi Term Project-201 ISE 422 I. General Hospital Location Plan: Of all the pieces of the planning project the hospital location is the most strategic and critical. Once the company build a new hospital it has made a substantial investment of time resources and capital that can not be changed for a long time. Selecting the wrong location can be disastrous. The objective here to locate an additional hospital in the region which consists of several districts. In this location problem your team wants to locate this hospital for the best way to serve a set of communities whose location and demands are known. Your team knows that the optimal location of the hospital should interact with the residents where distance travel is involved. As a consequence typical criteria for such decision include minimizing some function of the distance between facilities and/ or residents (i.e. average travel time average response time cost function of travel or response time maximum travel time or cost etc.). However the new location should account for the undesirable facilities in which the distance from the hospital is maximized. Examples of undesirable facilities include nuclear and military installations equipment emitting particular smell or noise warehouses containing flammable materials districts containing refuse or waste materials garbage dumps sewage plants correctional centers etc.