Bed Planning By Surgery Scheduling

With growing demand for healthcare resources, pressure on efficient usage of available bed capacity is increasing.Peaks in bed demand are due to variability in admissions and lengths-of-stay. With a balanced schedule in electivesurgeries, peak traffic is levelled across the week, hence, reducing overcrowding without turning away any patients orincreasing bed capacity. This study presents an Integer Programming model for scheduling the surgeries which hasbeen implemented in Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada.