The goal of this project was to improve the scheduling of surgical cases at UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC). Interviews, past surgical data, and observations were analyzed to evaluate the current state of surgical scheduling procedures. An optimization tool was developed in Excel that uses integer programming to increase the operating room utilization to be more competitive with industry standard. Recommendations were provided to more efficiently schedule surgical cases in the future to reduce overtime costs and maximize value-added time.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Carroll, Courtney Elizabeth
• Kent, Sonja J
• Juers, Meredith Hope

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030614-144337

Advisor

• Trapp, Andrew C

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• UMass Memorial Medical Center

Date created

• 2014-03-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Industrial Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright