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Practice Summaries: Designing Disease Prevention and Screening Centers in Abu Dhabi

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  • K. Louis Luangkesorn

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261)

  • Bryan A. Norman

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261)

  • Yi Zhuang

    (San Diego Padres, San Diego, California 92101)

  • Mimi Falbo

    (Mimi Falbo LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219)

  • John Sysko

    (Astorino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222)

Abstract

Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA) has established Disease Prevention and Screening Centers (DPSCs) to provide health screening for third-country national (TCN) workers. In anticipation of increases in the number of TCN workers who will require health screening, SEHA is building new centers to accommodate the increased requirements. As part of the design process, we used queuing and simulation models to model (1) the current DPSC configuration, (2) a configuration based on individual lanes, and (3) a configuration based on pooled lanes. We then used these models to analyze the effects of design decisions on capacity and customer flow through the centers.

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  • K. Louis Luangkesorn & Bryan A. Norman & Yi Zhuang & Mimi Falbo & John Sysko, 2012. "Practice Summaries: Designing Disease Prevention and Screening Centers in Abu Dhabi," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 42(4), pages 406-409, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:42:y:2012:i:4:p:406-409
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.1110.0617
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