| dc.description.abstract | The global spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put enormous strains
on the entire healthcare system, rejected healthcare professionals with the challenging
task of maintaining enough workforce level and resources that can serve a large
incoming wave of patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Given such growing demand
circumstances, it is useful to have information that enables the effective control of
future hospital occupancy. This research proposes a simulation-based model of a 3-
block hospital network in Ho Chi Minh City's cluster one to provide the optimal usage
of resources. The purpose of this study is to take advantage of these data and assist
healthcare managers in updating hospital activity in the short term in order to optimize
available resources. The simulation model uses user-specified input including the
number of patient arrivals, length of stay, number of hospital beds and staff to provide
the optimal level of required resources. This study also uses optimization software to
obtain the optimal number of resources including beds and staff. Experimental designs
showed that with lower resources, the waiting time still could be reduced and the total
number of patients that were not admitted to hospitals could remain zero. | en_US |
