Ahmed El Kady
ABSTRACT
Many of the existing healthcare facilities face resource restrictions in reallocating of departments or expanding in space and infrastructure, which is a key requirement for providing proper services. The purpose of this research paper is to present a user-friendly Two-stage method using exchange heuristics techniques that finds improved solutions to the existing healthcare multi-floor facility layout problem. The First stage is an assignment Hungarian method that re-assigns departments to floors reducing the total of the departmental interaction costs between vertical floors is minimized. The Second stage uses the Craft algorithm that solves the layout of each floor independently of the other floors, the two stages are simulated using Microsoft Excel and it is clear that the proposed method can provide several improved layouts for medium and large-scale problem events.
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- A Two Stage Heuristics for Improvement of Existing Multi Floor Healthcare Facility Layout
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