Reference no: EM131718728

Mt. Sinai Hospital in New Orleans is a large, private, 600-bed facility, complete with laboratories, operating rooms, and x-ray equipment. In seeking to increase revenues, Mt. Sinai’s administration has decided to make a 90-bed addition on a portion of adjacent land currently used for staff parking. The administrators feel that the labs, operating rooms, and x-ray department are not being fully utilized at present and do not need to be expanded to handle additional patients. The addition of 90 beds, however, involves deciding how many beds should be allocated to the medical staff for medical patients and how many to the surgical staff for surgical patients. The hospital’s accounting and medical records departments have provided the following pertinent information. The average hospital stay for a medical patient is 8 days, and the average medical patient generates $2,280 in revenues. The average surgical patient is in the hospital 5 days and receives a $1,515 bill. The laboratory is capable of handling 15,000 tests per year more than it was handling. The average medical patient requires 3.1 lab tests and the average surgical patient takes 2.6 lab tests. Furthermore, the average medical patient uses one x-ray, whereas the average surgical patient requires two x-rays. If the hospital was expanded by 90 beds, the x-ray department could handle up to 7,000 x-rays without significant additional cost. Finally, the administration estimates that up to 2,800 additional operations could be performed in existing operating room facilities. Medical patients, of course, do not require surgery, whereas each surgical patient generally has one surgery performed. Assume that the hospital is open 365 days a year. Round off your answers to the nearest integer.

1. The optimal number of medical patients per year is _____ , and optimal number of surgical patients per year is _____ . The maximum annual profit is _____ dollars. (Please round to the closest integer and include no units.)

2. Among the 90 additional beds, _______ beds should be used for medical patients and _______ beds used for surgical patients.

A. 45, 45

B. 60, 30

C. 61, 29

D. 29, 61

3. At the optimal, there are _____ empty beds, _____ lab tests of unused capacity, _____ x-rays of unused capacity, and _____ unused operation rooms available. (Please round to the closest integer and include no units.)