Assume, in the following pictured Track, that Activity 50 is a "Patient Travels unattended," Activity and that Activity 51 is a, "Process" Activity. Essentially, 50 leads to 51. Now, notice that Activity 60 has Activity 51 as a Predecessor and that if the Patient's acuity isn't 4, the Patient is sent back to Activity 50 to do it all over again. Is this possible? Can a Patient really be sent back to a place they already occupy?
It doesn't look like it works. The patient starts the travel activity again and then nothing ever happens. He's waiting for a location upstream of his location to open up, which won't happen.
Why are you sending the patient back to activity 50 when you know they're already at that location? Couldn't you just send them back to activity 51 (i.e. just redo the process time)?
Thanks, Matt. As usual, you're on top of things and lead the pack where responsiveness is concerned. I was lost in the impact of the looping location having a capacity of more than 1, say 15, and how that might affect the duplication of patients.
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