Change patient location settings in the tutorial

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Sravya Aremanda asked Feb 12, '17 Sravya Aremanda answered Mar 16, '17

Change patient location settings in the tutorial

I am new to Flexsim. So i am just trying to experiment different kinds of logic. I have doubts in the tutorial that comes along with Flexsim HC software. In that tutorial there are 6 beds and their area is defined as ExamRooms. The activity "70_Escort to Exam Room" the patient is escorted by a nurse to exam room. Now I changed the area names to two different exam rooms. The first 4 beds come under examroom1 and the next 2 are changed to examroom2. Now I changed Patient destination option in "70_Escort to Exam Room" to "Based on destination Status" and have Selection criteria as "Lowestcensus" and "list of destinations" as examroom1 and examroom2 and run the simulation. The patients arrive and get their vitals checked but sit near the waiting room. They don't get checked by the doctor. The waiting room just gets filled. I don't understand if I need to change somethingelse or what to do. Can somebody help me with that.

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Software Version:

FlexSim HC 5.1.0

Software Version:

FlexSim HC 4.0.4

patient destination flowchart

Answer 1 · 2017-02-13T18:02:42Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Feb 13, '17 Matthew Gillespie commented Mar 2, '17

You need to update the Flowchart since you got rid of the ExamRooms area and replaced it with two others.

This is what the original flowchart looked like:

And this is what the flowchart looks like after making two new areas:

Notice that ExamRoom1 and 2 aren't connected to any other areas. This is why your patients couldn't get to the exam beds. You need to recreate the connections. It should look something like this:

oldflowchart.png (12.9 KiB)

newflowchart.png (12.9 KiB)

newflowchart-fixed.png (18.4 KiB)

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Sravya Aremanda commented · Mar 02, 2017 at 10:08 PM

Thank you for your help :)

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Answer 2 · 2017-03-16T06:35:32Z

Sravya Aremanda answered Mar 16, '17

A follow up question. Now i want to decide how to assign a doctor.

I have 2 types of doctor groups (with 3 in each group) A & B.

Patients are assigned to the lowest census exam room ( in between Examroom1 & examroom2) .

rule 1: I want to maintain a general rule of 50% patients assigned to group A doctors and 50% to group B doctors.

rule 2: However say doctor A1 is in room1 and the next patient gets assigned in room1 itself. Then instead of the ratio i want him to go to patient 2 in the same room.

Is it possible to assign both the rules? if not just 2nd rule??

I tried using "based on multiple cases" for "80_MD Exam" - staff requirements option. But I am unable to implement it. Can you please help me. Thank you for your reply and time :)

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