Q. Should dice Hospital - A Cut Above
1. Explain how well is the hospital currently utilizing its beds?

2. Develop a similar table to show the effects of adding operations on Saturday. (Assume which 30 operations would still be performed each day.) Explain how would this affect the utilization of the bed capacity? Is this capacity sufficient for the additional patients?

3. Now look at the effect of increasing the number of beds by 50 percent. Explain how many operations could the hospital perform per day before running out of bed capacity? (Assume operations are performed five days per week, with the same number performed on each day.) Explain how well the new resources would be utilized relative to the current operation? Could the hospital really perform this operation? Explain why? (Hint: Look at the capacity of the 12 surgeons also the five operating rooms.)