Analysis of the logistical process at the bed cleaning department in a hospital

The field of Operations Research is nowadays used a lot in university hospitals. In this master thesis different methods of Operations Research are used to analyze data of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. In the first part of this thesis forecasts are made for the number of admissions and discharges in the Erasmus Medical Center by using different regression models. These forecasts can be used for all kind of different decisions that have to be made in the future and are especially interesting now, since a new hospital is being built. For example, the number of beds needed in this new hospital depends on the forecasts. These forecasts can also be used for a specific process in the hospital: the process of transporting clean and dirty beds through the hospital. The second part of this thesis is about this process and the crew that is responsible for this process. A simulation is used to test different options for the system that is used to assign tasks of picking up dirty beds and delivering clean beds to the wards. The results of this simulation will be used to make this process more efficient.