Healthcare Facility Design

Efficient facility layout is crucial, particularly due to its impact on material handling and transportation costs. This chapter focuses on hospitalHospital facility layout problems (HLP), aiming to optimize patientPatient and resource movements within predefined facility boundaries. While traditionally limited to manufacturing facilities, there has been a lack of analysis for hospitals. This work presents a two-part approach: first, a model for multi-floor layouts minimizing movement costs, considering parameters like travel frequency, difficulty, baseline cost, and distance. Second, additional parameters and constraints are introduced.