Reference no: EM133222639

Every week, 600 patients come to a walk-in clinic to visit the doctors. The clinic operates 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. 1.1 What is the hourly rate of patients visit at this clinic?

1.2 What is the monthly rate of visits, considering that the clinic works 22 days a month (please write down the unit of your calculated value)?

1.3 The process includes 2 steps: 1) the patient's registration, and 2) the doctor's visit once the doctor becomes available to visit the next registered patient. On average, there are 3 patients waiting for registration or during the registration process at any point in time. Also, there are 2 patients on average waiting to be visited by the doctor, or are in the process of the visit by one of the doctors. Please calculate the process inventory accordingly (i.e., the average number of patients somewhere in this clinic at any point in time)

1.4 How many minutes on average does this process take for each patient (from entering the clinic to exiting after their visit)?

1.5 This clinic decides to reduce the number of work days to 4 per week. In order to be able to meet the demand and visit the same number of patients weekly, what would be the maximum possible duration for this entire process for each patient?